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TheCricketers

Page history last edited by PBworks 15 years, 11 months ago

YATELEY'S BEERHOUSES

 

The Cricketers

 

By 1830 John Bedford and, before him, his father Thomas, had been William Blackall Simonds' managers at the Dog & Partridge for some twenty years, taking over from Thomas Shackleford's widow. When the new Beerhouse Act became law John decided to strike out on his own account, paid the new beerhouse excise fee of two guineas, and started the Cricketers on Cricket Hill. The Manorial Court books for 1831 admit Thomas Leybourn of Frimley Esquire to all that newly erected cottage now in the occupation of John Bedford. He is recorded in the census and trade directories continuing to serve beer there until he died at the age of 75 in 1863. His wife Elizabeth carried on the business. She died at the age of 82 in 1872. Then her spinster daughter Elizabeth ran the Cricketers until she died at the age of 62 in 1885, a total of 55 years under the Bedford family.

 

In 1835 the property had been bought by John Last of the parish of Hackney Middlesex, a Clerk in the General Post Office London. His widow Dinah continued to run the beerhouse after Miss Elizabeth Bedford died. The Last family continued to own the Cricketers until it was forfeited in 1909 for non payment of the original £100 mortgage of 1836. James Lane Brooks of Odiham Hants, Gentleman, to whom the mortgage was then owed, then sold the beerhouse to Hewetts just as they were about to be merged with Dymore Brown & Son Ltd, the Reading brewery.

 

As an "ante 1869 beerhouse" the Cricketers could only sell beer. In 1927, at the time that Morland of Abingdon was taking over both Hewetts and Dymore Brown, Thomas Lawrence Whiting applied for a licence for sale of wines and spirits both on and off the premises, but was refused. It was not until 1935 that Francis William Pugsley was granted a licence to sell wine on and off the premises.

 

The Cricketers we see today was built in 1928. John Bedford's beerhouse was the Old Cricketers to the north of the present pub.

 

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Original page written by P J Tipton for the Yateley Society's 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters

Additional research by Richard Johnston & Elizabeth Tipton

Original page may now have been revised to include the Society's latest Research

(c) The Yateley Society, 1997 & 2008

 

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