Card from Reg Pratley, Jubilee Inn

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

Photos of the men v ladies football team organised by the Elephant and Castle on May 21st 1978 ;
Score was 6-6 and the ladies won on penalties 2-1
Teams were as follow:
Ladies: Freda Bradley. Joan Cook, C Nutt, Ruth Wheeler, Lyn Wheeler, April Mulluis, S Paporth, Eve Godwin, A Harris, Bridget Shergold, Mary Cook
Men: Lionel Cook, Frank Hudson, Harry Beaumont, F. Cook, Tommy Tanner, R, Shergold, Frank Godwin, Ken Mullis, Robert Radband, Tom Bradley

Accounts for The Swan, year ending March 31st 1951.pdf

Roy Shergold and others in the Romany
photo by Bill Govier

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.

Two photos taken by Bill Govier showing Peter Elliott Landlord of the Talbot

The Malt Shovel Inn was in Lavender Square and sold Belcher and Habgood's noted Ales & Stout. They also kept pigs and sold sausages and bacon and also vinegar from a barrel. Still called the Malt Shovel it is now a private dwelling with great care taken to make sure the frontage is a delight to see in all seasons.

The Malt Shovel had a malthouse probably by the mid 18th century when it was owned by the maltster John Minchin, and passed later to John Ward, maltster, and to Ward's son-in-law Richard Hambidge, maltster and spirit merchant, before becoming a public house in the 1870s. (from Victoria County History)

Picture postcard across the east end of the Market Square showing part of the Town Hall, The Drapers, The Talbot and Hythe House. It is addressed to Mrs W. J. Johnson at Syringa Cottage in Aston post dated September 28th 1905

Photographs of the men's football club from the Elephant and Castle that played against Dean Farm Eggs at Brize Norton
Team names: Steve Pearce, Lionel Cook, Ben Tanner, Tom Papworth, Adrian Dunsby, Tom Tanner, Ollie (Jasper)Walsh, Brian Kew, Michael Wheeler, Frank Godwin, Brian Radband (Brusher), Robert Radband
Jasper Walsh – “What a team , plenty of skills and hangovers on a Sunday morning. I think we played 4:4:2 or was is 5:3:2?? We had to have de-brief back at the elephant pub; great fun.”