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| Pewter Tankard, one pint, likely pre-1878, from the Royal Oak Inn, Helpston. Photo courtesy of Shirley M. |
(My thanks go out to my English cousin, Shirley M., for providing this photo and the one below of pewter tankards from the Royal Oak Inn, Helpston, which the Sandersons operated from about 1916 to 1929 after leaving the Railway Hotel).
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| Pewter Tankard, 1/2 pint, from the Royal Oak Inn, Helpston. Photo courtesy of Shirley M. |
My weekend foray into vintage British newspapers has helped
to solve a mystery—how did my great great grandparents, Mark and Phoebe Sanderson, end their
proprietorship of the Chestnut Horse Inn in Deeping St. James, Lincolnshire to
take up the running of the Railway Hotel in Helpston? I found a handful of
newspaper items which show the process of Mark’s license being up for renewal,
its being denied, and then the sale of
Chestnut Horse Inn:
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| from the Stamford Mercury, May 1, 1908 |
and:
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| from the Stamford Mercury, May 29, 1908 |
and finally:
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| from the Stamford Mercury, September 18, 1908 |
(It is wonderful to have a description of the premises). My English cousin, Shirley M., in reading these, noticed that the owners of
the Chestnut Horse Inn, “Messrs. G. and H. R. Hunt, Brewers, Stamford”, also
were the owners of the Railway Hotel, where the Sandersons were to live and work
next. She remarked that they may not have had much of choice about moving to
Helpston, as they were likely transferred there by their employers. She stated
that it must have been a "worrying time" for them, as it had not been many years before
that the farm they were renting in March, Cambridgeshire was sold, and they had needed to move to Deeping St. James.
(For a further discussion of Mark and Phoebe Sanderson's lives, please see my blogpost, Phoebe Sanderson of the Royal Oak Inn).
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