The story behind our pub history and investment in the UK.
I have recently updated the pubs and Billericay Inns and surrounds from an excellent resource I found online, listing the Inns in 1962; and adding early 1769 and 1825 Alehouse Recognizances to all Essex pub history records.
The state of public houses are largely a problem caused by the issues of the larger companies owning too much, and keeps coming back into focus.
In the 1990s we saw public houses being closed to avoid anti-competitive law.
And now in 2024, after many pubs closing or entire pub chains going into bankruptcy, and then sold to investment companies, the problem has just got worse.
I am in fact adding a host of early Alehouse Recognizances from 1769 to 1816 so far to the entirety of Essex.
I have also just found a few broken links to my Holden directories of 1805 to 1811.
I lost the Masonic Lodges link too.
And I am still updating this pub history site despite all of the sites which plainly steal all of my hard work, in Kent, Cambridge and Sussex; and probably a whole lot more.
I have just removed quite a number of counties on the site. I will continue to mainly update Essex, but London and other counties nearby are on the pub wiki site.
My research in London pub history is amazing, not that anyone has noticed.
Please send me some pictures and other detail to update the sites.