Dial House, Bradford Street, Bocking CM7

Bocking pub history index

Possibly built in 1603 and once boasted a sun dial on the front façade. The 1871 census first refers to the property as the Dial Inn. It was a Raven house until 1901 and then a Greene King house. It ceased trading as a public house in 1973.

A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Essex.

Residents at this address

1841/Benjamin Harvey/Maltster/44/Essex/Census
1841/Elizabeth Harvey/../42/Essex/Census
1841/Abraham May/Miller j/30/Essex/Census

White’s Directory of 1848 lists Richard Medcalf as a beerseller

1855 Kelly’s Directory lists Richard Medcalf as a beer retailer.

1861/Sarah Metcalf/Beer Seller, widow/56/Stoke, Suffolk/Census
1861/Jane Metcalf/Niece, Dress Maker/24/Cavendish, Suffolk/Census
1861/Ebenezer Hainstead/Lodger, Mat Maker/26/Glemsford, Suffolk/Census

1874/Henry Copsey/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office

1878/Henry Copsey/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office

1881/Henry Copsey/Beer Retailer/69/Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk/Census
1881/Lucy Dawson/Sister in Law, Housekeeper/67/Chelmsford, Essex/Census

1882/Henry Copsey/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1886/Henry Copsey/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1890/James Smith/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1891/James Smith/../37/Wethersfield, Essex/Census*

In 1921 at Dial House, Bradford Street, Bocking, Essex
William Thompson, Beer House Keeper aged 57 years 6 months and born in Northamptonshire
Alice Maud Thompson, Wife, Assistant, William Thumpsen aged 38 years 8 months and born in Chappel, Essex
John Thompson, Son aged 2 years 5 months and born in Bocking, Essex
Ann Maria Grimwade, Wife's mother aged 73 years 1 month and born in Chappel, Essex
Harry Smith, Boarder, Brewers Drayman, Greene King & Sons, Brewers aged 29 years 1 month and born in Stisted, Essex
Amy Ethel Smith, Boarder aged 28 and born in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire
Lily Smith, Boarder aged 1 years 2 months and born in Braintree, Essex

1933/Ernest Clarke/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1937/Ernest Clarke/../../../Kelly's



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