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Historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels.
Chequers Tavern, 16 Duke Street, SW1 - in March 2007
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address.
1833-34/Alexander Bettie, Chequers, 16 Duke Street, Piccadilly/../../Pigots Directory
1839/Jno Bason/../../../Pigot's Directory
1841/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory
1851/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory
1856/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory
April 1857/John Bawn/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
April 1857/George Chandler/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
1869/Mrs A Chandler/../../../Post Office Directory
July 1869/Amelia Ann Lupson (late Chandler)/ Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era
July 1869/Frederick Brooks Lupson, her husband/ Incoming Licensee /../../The Era
Licensed Victuallers' Guardian. 25 July 1874 Transfer of Licenses
Chequers, Duke street, Edmund Sinclair Giles to Thomas Butters
1881/Alfred Ware/Licensed Victualler/45/Chichester East Lavant/Census
1881/Maria Ware/Wife/39/Kings Lynn Roydon/Census
1881/infant Ware/Son/1 week/St James Westminster/Census
1881/Jane Wingrove/Cook/17/Wandsworth/Census
1881/George Edwards/Servant/26/Weedon, Northampton/Census
1881/Rose Ford/Servant/18/../Census
1881/Sarah Copping/Nurse/60/Howland Street, Middlesex/Census
1882/Alfred Ware/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/George Tester/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Fredk Wm Pyne/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/Miss Mary Ann Elizabeth Young/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Mrs. Mary Ann Elizabeth Neal/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/Miss Clara Poole/../../../Post Office Directory
1915/Fredk Willis Philpot/../../../Post Office Directory
1921/Fredk John Norris/../../../Post Office Directory
1926 - 1934/H L Hood/../../../BT Phonebooks **
In 1933, An English Foreign Office clerk called Ernest Oldham drank in
there pretty much all day every day through the summer of 1933. He was
spying for the Soviet Union, and close to breakdown due to the pressure he
was under from his agent handler. The pub is just across St James's park
from his old office at King Charles St, from where he was stealing
documents.
He was under surveillance through August and September, including many times
at the Chequers. In one report the Special Branch detective notes that his
acquaintances were "certain female servants from adjoining flats, an artist
named Shenaton, whom I have never seen other than in a state of helpless
intoxication, and various antique dealers in the Street who use the house."
Hood the landlord warned him to stay off the spirits, as it would kill him.
But, in the end, he took his own life in September, with his head in a gas
oven. **
1934/Mrs Jessie Hood/../../../Kellys Directory
1938/Mrs Jessie Hood/../../../Post Office Directory
1939 - 1940/J Hood/../../../BT Phonebooks **
1944/Mrs Gertrude Daisy Moore/../../../Post Office Directory
** Provided By Edward Kershaw
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