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The
Cricketers Inn photo gallery |
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Previous pub signs |
this portrait has "W G Grace“ painted on the sleeve |
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in the 1950s |
Landlord Lous Stanford behind the bar in the
1960s |
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the front bar in the 1960s |
in the 1980s |
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Front bar in the 1990s |
Front bar in the 1990s |
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Dave & Jean Nurton in the 1990s |
John & Jenice Howe in 2013 |
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Images from 2015-2016 |
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A brief history of Cricketers Inn
It is said that early in the
1800s two sisters opened their cottage to give refreshments to the cricketers
returning from the cricket pitch in The Park along the track just opposite.
This could have been the start of an “unlicensed” but legal Alehouse, and one
of five in the village in the early days, however,
references to court cases relating to Goldhanger alehouse and beerhouses in the
Essex Records Office start in 1576, although addresses were not given.
The business was developed by
Caleb Chaplin, a baker who lived next
door (now called Elms bakery), and he applied for the first full spirit licence
in August 1869...
The Tithe map and Awards of
1838 shows he owned both the bakery and Cricketers Inn in that year. He was
also the captain of the Goldhanger cricket team at the time.
However, in 1870 both
premises were put up for sale and it seemed that Caleb took a job as the baker
at Chelmsford prison, where he worked for the next 30 years.
His son, also
called Caleb and who was born at The Cricketers in 1867, spent 27 years in the
Merchant Navy, but was killed in 1917 while he was the first mate on S.S.
Newstead that was torpedoed by a U-boat in the Atlantic. His name is on the
Chelmsford Civic Centre War Memorial.
The Chelmsford
War Memorial website recalls both their lives and records that Caleb Chaplin
senior had participated in the Australian gold rush in the 1860s!
An obituary from the
Essex Newsman of 1908
In the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s
the Cricketers benefited from having a wheelwrights next door and a blacksmiths
opposite, so their customers could take refreshments in the inn while their
carriages and wagon wheels were being repaired and their horses were being
re-shod.
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These views show the inn
during the early 1900s with an older inn sign clearly visible, and the
wheelwrights barn next door. The full postcards are shown in the Street
Scenes Chapter. |
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Year |
Landlords |
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1835-69 |
Caleb Chaplin (also the baker) |
Trade directories &
newspapers |
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1870-71 |
John Lomax |
Kelly's & post offfice |
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1874 |
Edward Green |
Kelly's& post offfice |
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1878 |
Frank Wadham |
Kelly's |
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1881-82 |
Samuel & Sarah Clarke |
Kelly's & Census |
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1886-1925 |
Henry & Eleanor Walden |
Kelly's |
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1901 |
Henry J Walden |
Census (also horseman) |
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1925-1929 |
Reginald Sterling Williams |
Kelly's |
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1933 |
Donald McRae |
Kelly's |
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1937 |
James A Lane |
Kelly's |
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1940-50 |
Jim Hinchclif |
newspapers |
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1950s? |
Sharratt |
Local knowledge |
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1950s? |
Lord |
Local knowledge |
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1950s-60s |
Lous Stanford |
newspapers |
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1960s-80s |
Mary Stanford |
Parish magazine |
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1990s-2000 |
Dave & Jean Nurton |
Parish magazine |
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2005-12 |
Steve Williams |
Parish magazine |
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2013-15 |
John & Jenice Howe |
Parish magazine |
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2015-2016 |
John Paul Ingui |
Parish magazine |
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2017-date |
Vince & Diane |
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Some
Information in taken from: pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Goldhanger/