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Yorkshire Grey, 15 High Street, Stevenage - in January 2012
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1861/Edward Flack/Inn Keeper/40/Ware, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Ann Flack/Wife/33/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Edward Flack/Son/9/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/James Flack/Son/5/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Anne Flack/Daughter/3/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Amy Harvey/House Servant/14/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/John Impey/Servant/15/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Edward Flack/Publican & Horsebreaker/55/Ware, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Anne Flack/Wife/45/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Edward Flack/Son, Publican & Horsebreaker/20/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/James Flack/Son, Publican & Horsebreaker/16/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/William Flack/Son/8/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Wallis Flack/Son/5/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Edwarrd Stanford/Groom/22/Hitchin, Hertfordshire/Census
1871/Eliza Earne/General Servant/14/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1881/Edward Flack/Licensed Victualler & Horsebreaker Employing 3 Men & 3
Boys, Widow/63/Ware, Hertford/Census
1881/Caroline R Flack/Sister, Housekeeper/69/Ware, Hertford/Census
1881/James Flack/Son, Assisstant/25/Stevenage, Hertford/Census
1881/Walter Flack/Son, Assisstant/15/Stevenage, Hertford/Census
1881/Hannah Canfield/General Servant/15/Stevenage, Hertford/Census
1882/Edward Flack/../../../Post Office Directory
1886/Edward Flack/../../../Post Office Directory
1890/Edward Flack/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/John Thomas/Licensed Victualler/42/Birmingham/Census
1891/Jane Thomas/Wife/41/Kentish Town, London/Census
1891/Percy Thomas/Son/9/Gosport, Hants/Census
1891/Mabel Thomas/Daughter/6/Gosport, Hants/Census
1894/John Thomas/../../../Kelly’s Directory **
1895/John Thomas/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/John E Brunsden/../../../Kelly’s Directory **
1901/Obadiah Kemp/Publican/54/Gosfield, Essex/Census
1901/Louisa Kemp/Wife/54/Halstead, Essex/Census
1901/Ruth L Kemp/Daughter, Barmaid/23/Halstead, Essex/Census
1901/Edward L Kemp/Son, Carpenters Apprentice/17/Halstead, Essex/Census
1901/Kate Kemp/Daughter, Dressmaker/15/Halstead, Essex/Census
Chelmsford Chronicle. 19 July 1901
Mr O Kenp, formerly manager of the Halstead Co-operative Society, and now the landlord of of the Yorkshire Grey Hotel, Stevenage had a remarkable experience in a thunderstorm on Friday night.
At 9.15 a thunderbolt struck one end of the hotel, setting fire to the lathe and rafters, while the other end was struck by electricity, a number of men in the bar parlour receiving a shock.
The current came down the chimney, upsetting an irin fire screen causing a dog which was dozing on the hearth to decamp and yelling in an unearthly fashion, and breaking to atoms a glass in the hand of a man sitting by.
1911/William Harry Russell/Hotel Proprietor/33/Newhaven, Sussex/Census
1911/Sarah jane Franklin Russell/Wife/33/Lincolnshire/Census
1911/Florence Edith Russell/Daughter/4/Kennington, London/Census
1911/William Oliver Russell/Son/2/Kentish Town, London/Census
1911/Frank Pinn/Boarder, Wood Machinist/22/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1911/Charles Ernest Gauntley Walker/Lodger, Chauffeur/25/Leytonstone, Essex/Census
1911/Lily Victoria Walker/Lodger/23/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1911/Charles William Walker/Lodger/4/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1911/Christinia Walker/Lodger/2/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1911/Ernest Walker/Lodger/Under 5 months/Stevenage, Hertfordshire/Census
1912/William Harry Russell/../../../Post Office Directory
In 1921 at 15 High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire is the Yorkshire Grey
W J Littlechild, Publican, aged 51 years 2 months and born in Colney Heath, Hertfordshire
Ellen Littlechild, Wife, Home Duties, aged 48 years 8 months and born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire
1922/William J Littlechild/../../../Post Office Directory
1926/William Wilding/../../../Post Office Directory
1929/Elvin Clifford Pope/../../../Post Office Directory
1933/William A Tonkin/../../../Post Office Directory
1937/William A Tonkin/../../../Post Office Directory
In 1939 at 15 High Street, Stevenage
Mabel A Tonkin, Licensed Victualler, Widowed, born 28 Feb 1882
Edith S Parsons, Later Perry, Barmaid, Widowed, born 23 Oct 1910
Henry W Russell, Assisting In Bar, Widowed, born 18 Aug? 1927
Hertfordshire Express. 14 December 1956
Under new management says a notice in the window of the saloon bar of the Yorkshire Grey public house in Stevenage High street.
The new management is Mrs Phyllis Dudley, who with her husband, Mr Leonard Dudley, and two sons Richard, aged 20, and Roger, aged 13, moved into the Yorkshire Grey last Thursday after the Stevenage Licensing Justices had approved the temporary transfer of the licence from Mr David Wilson.
Mr and Mrs Dudley and family come to Stevenage from Luton, where they have lived for the past seven years. Previous to that they lived at Bedford.
Neither Mrs Dudley nor her husband, who is in the civil service, have been in the licensed trade before, but they are looking forward to making a success of their new venture at the Yorkshire Grey.
Hello, My grandad Dave Wilsons Brother was George Wilson, who ran the Checkers, Baldock from around 1963-1985. George got my grandad Dave Wilson a job, running the Yorkshire Grey, in Stevenage old town around the same time. *+
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