George & Dragon, High Street

Now demolished. The site was between Brunyee Road and the High Street

Owners

1872  George Pidd (Register of licenses)
???? George Thomas & Sarah Elizabeth Nicholson (Register of licenses)
1892 George Thomas & Sarah Elizabeth Nicholson (Register of licenses)
1903 Messrs Nicholson, Conisborough (Register of licenses)
???? Whitworth, Sons & Nephew, Wath

Licensees – as listed in the Register of Licences granted in the Western Division Hundred of Manley in the parts of Lindsey in the County of Lincoln [1872 to circa 1940]

Trade Directories etc.

1828 James Mell (Pigot & Co Directory of Lincolnshire, 1828)
1835 James Isle (Pigot & Co Directory of Lincolnshire, 1835)
1841 James Isle (Pigot & Co Directory of Lincolnshire, 1841)
1841 James Isle – Innkeeper (1841Census)
1842 James Isle – INNS & C. (Whites Directory of Lincolnshire, 1842)
1849 Joseph Cundall – Inns & Taverns (Hagar and Co’s Commercial Directory of the Market Towns of Lincolnshire, 1849)
1851 Joseph Cundall – Innkeeper (1851 Census)
1856 Joseph Cundall (Crowle Directory, 1856)
1859 George Pidd – Transfer of License (Stamford Mercury – Friday 17 June 1859)
1861 George Pidd (Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire, 1861)
1861 George Pidd – Innkeeper (1861 Census)
1868 George Pidd (Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire, 1868)
1871 George Pidd – Innkeeper (1871 Census)
1872 George Pidd (White’s History, Gazetteer & Directory of Lincolnshire, 1872)
1881 George Pidd – Innkeeper (1881 Census)

George & Dragon to let
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Saturday 17 September 1881

1881 Robert Varley – License endorsed (Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 18 November 1881)
1885 Robert Varley (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1885)
1885 George Chapman Pidd – Transfer of license (Stamford Mercury – Friday 15 May 1885)
1889 George Chapman Pidd (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire, 1889)
1891 George C Pidd – Innkeeper (1891 Census)
1896 ( Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1901 Arthur Richard Parkin – Innkeeper (1901 Census)
1905 John Crawley (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1909 John Crawley (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1911 John Crawley – Publican (1911 Census)
1913 John Crawley (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)
1919 John Crawley (Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire)

1966 (Avril Turner Project)

Queens Jester at Crowle
Lincolnshire Chronicle
Friday 20 May 187

1910 Tax Assessment Report;
Occupier: John Crawley – From 1 July 1905
Owner: Whitworth Son & Nephew
Former sale: July 1 1905 – £1615-18-3
Particulars: Good public house with cottage adjoining. Good repair
Description of Buildings:
Ground floor – Tap Room, Smoke Room, Billiard Room, Kitchen, Dairy Pantry, Back Kichen
1st Floor – Sitting Room, 5 Bed, Lodge Room
Outside – Stables for 3, Storage room Stores harness, Pigs & c.