The Stag Public House Leighton Buzzard
The Stag about 1906 [Z1306/72]
The Stag Public House: 1 Heath Road, Leighton Buzzard.
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service does not have many records for this public house because it was owned by out-county breweries. The countywide Return of Licensed Premises for 1876 states that the occupier was Edward Smith and owner brewer Henry Fowler of Woburn. The return states that it was first licensed in 1854. Dates of first licensing have been proved to not always be accurate, however, there is no evidence to contradict this date.
By 1891 the owner was Parrot, Walker & Company of Aylesbury, by 1903 it had become the Aylesbury Brewery Company. The Stag was a beerhouse until a full licence was transferred from the recently closed Boot in February 1904 making it a public house. At the time of writing [2009] the Stag is owned by Fuller, Smith and Turner.
The Stag in May 2008
References:
- PSLB4/1: Register of Alehouse Licences - Leighton Buzzard Petty Sessional Division: c.1860s-1949;
- PSLB4/3: Register of Alehouse Licences - Leighton Buzzard Petty Sessional Division: c.1860s-1956
- WL1000/10/1/1: auction sale particulars of brewery in Woburn and 26 public houses formerly of James Fowler of Woburn, brewer: 1881
- PSLB4/2: Register of Alehouse Licences - Leighton Buzzard Petty Sessional Division: 1922-1948.
List of Licensees: note that this is not a complete list; entries in italics refer to licensees where either beginning or end, or both, dates are not known:
1876 Edward Smith
1895: Louisa Smith;
1895: Edwin Allway;
1900: Charles Hanson;
1901: William Hubbock;
1906: Thomas Latimer;
1910: Arthur Davis;
1911: George Edward Peasgood;
1912: Sarah Peasgood;
1922: Annie Elizabeth Peasgood;
1933: Henry George Elliott;
1934: Mary Elliott;
1935: Henry Edward Fisher;
1948: John Frederick Markham Dudley;
1950: Nellie Faith Honora Dudley;
1961: Alfred Ernest Grace;
1967: Edward Alfred Taylor;
1969: Peter Brown;
1973: Arthur George Cook;
1991: Richard Thomas Maughan;
1992: Robin James Pattrick