Mr & Mrs Harry Sollis owned and ran the Swan Inn in Buckland road for many years. In the last few years, Mrs Sollis ran it as a widow. Emmie Papworth, nee Bishop was a relative and adored Mrs Sollis; Emmie is seen with her in two of these pictures and her son Tom is with them in one of them. Mrs Sollis eventually sold The Swan by auction October 1st 1964; it was bought by Tim Tomlins.
Five handwritten Indenture Legal Documents relating to the sales and mortgages of the Swan Inn and adjoining land dating from 1823 to 1831, Also mentions Turnpike Gate and Kents Weir Gate. Named in the documents are John Wright Rachel Bradshaw Clinch Mary Vines William Walcroft Edward Fisher Thomas Breakspeare Edward Fisher John Roberts William Hanbury Henry Whitaker James Ward Jonathan Arnatt
letters from Forrester Sylvester Mackett Solicitors to David Tomlins s relating to the Assent and First Registration of Title for the land adjoining The Old Swan, Buckland Road, Bampton
Valuation report on the Annexe at The Swan, on behalf of the executors of The late Timothy Frazer Tomlins by Strakers. Land Registry Documentation, Declaration of Solvency of Timothy Frazer Tomlins and Letter from Chadwick Solicitors