Fountain Hotel, Queens Corner, West Mersea
West Mersea pub history index
This was the Old Fox, in East Road where James Syer Smith was the beerhouse keeper from at least 1868 until about 1911; then the Fountain Hotel, at Queens Corner from 1912 until its demolition in 1999.
Residents at this address
This is now the Fouintain Hotel at Queens corner from 1912.
1914/Miss Edith Smith/../../../Kellys
1917/Miss Edith Smith/../../../Kellys
1922/Miss Edith Smith/../../../Kellys
On the 23rd May 1924, the Fountain Inn was sold by Mary Anne Smith and her Mother to the Colchester Brewing Company.
1925/Albert Kirby/../../../Kellys
1929/Charles S. Kirby/Proprietor/../../Kellys
1933/Albert William Osborne/Proprietor/../../Kellys
In 1935, the owners become Ind Coope & Allsop
1937/H. E. Dinham/../../../Kellys
1955, Arthur S. Aldous and Dorothy E. Aldous, are at the Fountain Hotel [Electoral Roll]
1957 Joseph Henry Lewis, publican [Parish Register]
1992 the owners are now become Allied Lyons [Deeds]
December 1999 Fountain Hotel demolished. Fountain Court housing was built on the site.
