‘LANDLORDS’ of ‘THE CATHERLOUGH ARMS’ later the ‘WINGED SPUR’
The following list has been compiled from a variety of sources. It might not be a complete list of the landlords. Please contact us if you can add to this list.
HENRY BRISTOW: 1768 – 1778 – cannot be sure that it was called ‘The Catherlough Arms’ at this time or that it was the current building.
WILLIAM BRISTOW: 1785 – 1800 (and probably 1779 – 1781) – cannot be sure that it was called ‘The Catherlough Arms’ at this time.
THOMAS PAYTON: 1801 – 1802 – cannot be sure that it was called the ‘Catherlough Arms’ at this time.
WIDOW PAYTON 1803
JOHN GREAVES: 1804 – 1806 – ‘The Catherlough Arms’.
MARY GREAVES: 1806 – 1815
JOHN TURNER: 1815 – 1818 (may have been longer, but records do not indicate so).
SAMUEL JOHNS: 1834 – 1848 (may have been earlier as some records are missing). Now called the ‘Spur’.
WILLIAM COX: 1850 (White’s Directory) (exact dates not known).
WILLIAM STEPHENS: 1851 (census) (exact dates not known).
JOSEPH BALL? : The 1855 Barrels Estate Sale Particulars state “The Spur Public House and about 6 acres of Pasture Land and House and Garden, . . . in the occupation of Joseph Ball and others”, so Joseph Ball might have been the landlord for a time.
ROBERT TATHAM: c1856 (Barrels Estate Sale Particulars 1856).
JAMES SALT: c1857-1869
WILLIAM TURNER: 1869 – 1886
FELICIA TURNER: 1886 – 1889
WALTER WALKER: c1889 – died 1918 (1892 Kelly’s Directory listed as Wings & Spur Inn; 1900 Winged Spur Inn).
WILLIAM WALKER: 1918 – (still listed in 1928 Kelly’s Directory but had left by 1932, exact year not known).
SYDNEY PAYNE: 1932 (Kelly’s Directory) – year of commencement not known – died in 1933.
LAWRENCE ‘LOL’ HUNT: 1936, 1940 (Kelly’s Directory) – year of commencement & ending not known.
DICK OLDFIELD: commencement date unknown – c1967?
JACK & BETTY HOAD: c1967 – 1979
JOHN FLETCHER: c1979 – 1981
ROGER & JACKIE WEATHERALL: 1981 – 1991
PAUL & VERONICA WHITE: 1992 – 2004
CLIVE MINSHELL & MARY JONES: 2004 – 2011
GARY MEADS: 2011 – 2013
SCOTT ? & LIAM ? : 2013 – July 2014
HEATHER & TOM ?: July 2014 – Oct 2014
?? : Jan 2015 – Spring 2016
?? : 2017 –
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