THE RAILWAY INN

(Greene King)

By Bill Exley

The Railway Tavern, early 1960s
102 Station Road (The Conifers) 2001

 

This building is alongside Blunham Station and building, with the Sandy to Bedford tracks now taken up, along with the bridge. An ale licence was first granted in 1863.

Nathaniel Kifford King (Railway Tavern) 1869, 1876, 1877, 1885
Thomas Bossingham (Railway Tavern) 1890, 1894, 1898
Mrs Rhoda Bossingham (Wells and Winch Biggs.) 1903, 1906, 1910
Harry Bossingham 1914 - 1935
Mr Baxter 25-05-1935
Mrs Ann, May, Edith Baxter (Railway Tavern) 20-02-1939
Harry Robinson 06-07-1955
Sydney Reid 18-10-1961
This public house was renamed 'The Tavern' and did a good trade as a restaurant, acquiring a bar licence again.
Changed to 'The Huntress' Resturant and Public House 23-03-1992
Re established as a 'Private Dwelling' 22-02-2000

Page last updated 19th April 2004 by Colin Hinson.