Showing posts with label Meager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meager. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Wrestlers' Inn, Aldenham, becomes The Battle Axes

Several years ago Nancy asked about The Wrestlers' Inn at Aldenham, and Colin has just contacted me to say that another of his relatives, James Meager, was associated with the pub in Victorian times. I decided to find out what happened to it and discovered that it was demolished in about 1891 as part of improvements to the Aldenham Estate - and The Battle Axes public house was build as a replacement.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Update - The Green Man and The Harrow, Tring

Following my recent answer to a query about Mrs Jane Philbey, Tring, 1840-1864 Colin has written to say that Jane Philbey of The Green Man public house was the sister of Thomas Meager, landlord of The Harrow public house in Akeman Street, Tring.