Notes on slides for Talk on

William Brown's

Account Book 1851-8

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Plough Inn, 50 High St

• Publicans over the years

• 1823 E Brinkman, Plough

• 1828/9 Elizabeth Brinkman, Plough

• 1839 William Kingsley, Plough (and posting house)

• 1853 William Kingsley dies

• 1855 Henry Tompkins

• 1861 William Roffey

• 1866 John Woodman at the Plough

• 1878 John Penn, Commercial Inn, High Street

• 1882, 1895 John Penn, Plough Inn, 50 High Street

Notes see earlier slide

One might expect a posting house to have an archway allowing easy rear access - but there is one architectural feature one might expect in a posting house - the first floor bay window, allowing the publican to look up and down the High Street to see approaching customers as quickly as possible - so he could greet them at the front door.

Changes in use, including using it as an overflow from the hardware shop next door suggest the two have had a workin connection since the 1850s - possibly a common owner.