Flecknoe. Old Olive Bush Public House
The Old Olive Branch public house, Flecknoe. Sign reading: "Phipp's Northampton noted ales and stout, wines and spirits." Two working horses with small cart. Small boy holding bridle. 1920s. This photograph was taken just after the public house had been renovated after being burnt down, the tiles are new. (Information supplied by Mrs S. Thomas of Flecknoe). 1920s
IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
Reference: PH, 352/205/11, img: 985
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Comments
Is it possible to find out who the landlord of the pub was back in the ’30s? My grandparents kept pub then. Part and Eliza Green?
I had a very strange occurrence behind the bar there…a bottle come flying at me and the door to the upstairs kept swinging ….wonder if it was the old landlord? Why did it burn down? Did anyone perish?
I found out that one of my ancestors Sarah Ann Elizabeth Spencer who was the wife of the then landlord Samuel Spencer, hung herself there in the 1880s. I met a lady who used to live there when she was a child and didn’t know this but both her and the current landlady said they have felt a presence in the pub.
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