Extracts from ‘Tetney: some historical notes’, Louth Library.

- / Mention of the Ship PH, Firebeacon
- / Canal from Tetney to Firebeacon completed 1767
- / Open field system in Tetney was enclosed between 1774 and 1779
- / Watercress grown at Tetney blow wells from 1946 till 1961 when the water authority commenced pumping 6 million gals. per day from adjacent bore holes
- / Stamford Mercury, Jany 1805, advises that Dantzic deck deals, oak planks and timber from the wreck of ‘Les Bons Enfans’ of Dantzic, will be auctioned at the Crown & Anchor at 11am 9th Jany. Believed that other wrecks were auctioned from these premises
- / Pvesner records that the Crown & Anchor PH is mid 19th C – this cannot be right in view of the above. It probably is late 18th C?
DIRECTORY / DATE / COLLECTOR / CROWN & ANCHOR / BEER & SHOP / BRICK/PIPE MAKER
Whites’ / 1842 / Thos. Taylor / Saml. Maughan*
Whites’ / 1856 / Thos. Sharp / John Thomas Maughan*
Kelly’s / 1868 / Thos. Sharp / Chas. Mumby*
Whites’ / 1872 / Thos. Sharpe / Chas. Mumby*
Whites’ / 1882 / Wm. Osmond / Wm. Stones* / Joseph Cook
Kelly’s / 1892 / Wm. Chapman / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby
Whites’ / 1892/3 / Wm. Chapman / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby / Wm. Blyth
Kelly’s / 1896 / Wm. Chapman / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby / Wm. Blyth
Kelly’s / 1905 / Roderick Wilkinson / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby / Wm. Blyth
Kelly’s / 1913 / Roderick Wilkinson / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby / Geo. Norman
Kelly’s / 1919 / Roderick Wilkinson / Alfred Drewry* / Henry Hundelby
Kelly’s / 1922 / Roderick Wilkinson / Wm. Atkinson / Henry Hundelby
Kelly’s / 1926 / Joe Holmes Fawcett / Henry Hundelby
Kelly’s / 1930 / J.H. Fawcett / Henry Hundelby
Kelly’s / 1933 / J.H. Fawcett / Henry Hundelby
Kelly’s / 1937 / J.H. Fawcett / Henry Hundelby

Notes on the above:

Whites’ 1872 refers to Wm. Archer, Drainage Foreman etc for the Canal Commissioners

Kelly’s 1892 refers to Wm. Blyth, brickmaker from Barton on Humber, later the word ‘pipe’ is included

Whites’ 1882 refers to Joseph Cook as ‘beerhouse’; Kelly’s 1892 refers to Hundelby as a ‘beer retailer, shopkeeper & carrier’.

The beer retailing business is referred to as the Sloop Inn in Kelly’s 1937 edition.
*see Census returns: Crown & Anchor, Tetney 1841 - 1891
Data supplied by Malcolm Beaumont