Edgware pub history index
It is listed in Little Stanmore census. In recent years this pub has been renamed the Change of Hart. **
A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Middlesex.
White Hart, High Street, Edgware - in November 2012
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address
1826/Elizabeth Stone, White Hart, (and posting inn)/../../Pigots Directory
1839/Robert Cribb, White Hart, Edgware(and posting house)/../../Pigots Directory
1851/Henry Sewell, White Hart/../../Post Office Directory
1851/Ann Atkins/Wife, Housekeeper/35/Chelmsford/Census
1851/William Atkins/Son/12/St Pancras/Census
1851/Sarah Ann Atkins/Daughter/10/Hendon/Census
1851/Harry Sewell Atkins/Son/7/Hendon/Census
1851/Jane Atkins/Daughter/5/Hendon/Census
1851/John Atkins/Son/3/Hendon/Census
1851/Isaac Atkins/Son/19 months/Hendon/Census
1851/Charles Walduck/Horse Dealer/40/../Census
1851/William Walduck/Son/12/../Census
1851/William Backram/Hostler/26/../Census
1851/Lydia Harviss/Servant/16/../Census
1861/William Smith/Publican & Hay Dealer/34/Bungay, Suffolk/Census
1861/Ellen Smith/Wife/32/Martham, Norfolk/Census
1861/Emily Smith/Daughter/7/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1861/William Smith/Son/6/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1861/Charles Smith/Son/4/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1861/Emma Smith/Daughter/1/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1861/Elizabeth East/House Servant/17/Aldingham, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/David Pelle/Ostler/43/Emly Hamster, Hertfordshire/Census
+ Lodgers
1866/William Smith, White Hart/../../Post Office Directory
1871/Ellen Smith/Publican, Widow/41/Mendham, Norfolk/Census
1871/Emma Smith/Daughter/11/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1871/James Brybrook/Ostler, Widow/62/Hampshire/Census
1874/Mrs Ellen Smith/../../../Post Office Directory
1878/Mrs Smith, White Hart/../../Post Office Directory
1881/Ellen Smith/Licensed Victualler/52/Withersdale, Norfolk/Census
1881/Emma Hale/Daughter/22/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
1881/Maud Hale/Daughter/1/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
+ Lodgers
1890/Edward Hale/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Horace Hoare/Publican/26/Edgware, Middlesex/Census
+ Lodgers
1894/Henry Giles/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Frederick Rouse/../../../Post Office Directory
Hendon & Finchley Times 06 January 1899 - Transfers:
White Hart, Edgware, from Mr Scheerer to Mr G R Baxman
1914/Frank Cheshire/../../../Post Office Directory
Hendon & Finchley Times 08 April 1921 - Transfers:
White Hart, Edgware from Mr William Charles Keck to Mr Edward Bernard Davies
1926/Edwin Barnard B Davies/../../../Post Office Directory
1937/Chas G L Cowdery/../../../Post Office Directory
Harrow Observer 10 June 1948
Mr Alfred Baldwin, of the White Hart Hotel, High street, Edgeware, formerly of 2 St Anns road, Harrow, contractor, who died on January 7, left £5896 19s 6d gross.
Landlord 1960s - White Hart Edgware. : Ian and Madleine Mackay. *
Harrow Observer 10 October 1972
White Hart is good example of rare medieval architecture.
New evidence which may prove that part of the White Hart Hotel, High street, Edgeware, dates from late medieval times was uncovered by an inspector from the historic buildings section of the GLC last week.
The public house is listed with the Dept of Environment as being of historical insterest, and it was always known that it dated from the 1700s, but a new study revealed beams which seem to date from 1500 or perhaps even earlier.
The hotels tenants Madeleine and Iain Mackay have been at the White Hart for over 11 yers , and have always loved the place.
The building was first registered as an inn in the Gore Division records in 1751.
In 1783, the licensee Francis Ansell Aldridge Hawkes of the Crane public house apprehended two footpads dressed as soldiers who had robbed Mr Hawkes brother.
Gradually, the history of this hotel, which is on the old Roman road, Watling street, is being uncovered - and Mr Mackay thinks there may have been an ale house there since Roman times.
Harrow Observer 17 October 1972
A petition to save the White Hart Hotel, High street, Edgeware, as a historical building, has so far been signed by 1,500 people, said the tenant manager, Mr Iain Mackay.
The hotels owners, Ind Coope breweries, want to sell the hotel to Dixons Photographic Ltd for demolition and re-developmnet as a petrol station and eight storey offices.
As part of the preservation campaign, Mr Iain Mackay wrote to the new Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman.
* Provided by Jay Kitcher