Railway Inn, 49 Hertford Street
| Alternative Addresses: | 44 Hertford Street | ||
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1841 | 1938 | RAILWAY INN / HOTEL | |
| 1878 | 1938 | PEEPING TOM | |
The Railway Inn, known by all as the Peeping Tom, on the corner of The Bullyard and Hertford Street, c1903.
This pub was never officially called by the name PEEPING TOM - licences were always transferred under its proper name, the RAILWAY INN. However, from 1878, when licensee Hannah Hatton decorated the pub with a Peeping Tom effigy and emblazoned his name on the pub's exterior, that was the name that remained in the public consciousness until the day the pub closed in 1938. Hannah Hatton had indeed asked for a change of name from Railway Inn to Peeping Tom in September 1878, naively believing that the new name could be used without an official application. The Bench refused the request, but allowed the effigy and sign-writing to remain. The coming of the railways in the nineteenth century made a huge impact on life in Britain and this was reflected in pub names. | |||
LICENSEES:1850 Thomas George Johnson 1851 James Ashes 1861 - 1868 Henry Parker 1871 - 1874 Thomas Bills 1874 - 1879 Hannah Hatton 1879 - 1886 Edward Wallen 1890 - 1891 G. Armson 1893 - 1896 F. W. Allard 1903 - 1922 Henry Edwin Willford 1922 - 1924 Alec Buckland 1926 - 1932 S. W. Turner 1933 - 1938 Thomas R. Tudman | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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