Reference
Z994
Title
Market gardening sales day book and family photograph of William Alfred Green of the New Inn or Greyhound, Great North Road, Astwick
Date free text
1904-1913
Production date
From: 1904 To: 1913
Scope and Content
William Alfred Green was originally a timber dealer and with his wife Eliza was publican of the Crown on Stotfold Green. They had followed on from his parents who had arrived in Stotfold c.1859 and taken up at the Crown by 1868. In 1887 William Alfred gives his occupation as market gardener on the birth certificate of a son, Fredrick Russell Green.
It is believed that he rented five acres at Fen End. The family moved to the New Inn in 1895 with a ten year lease and at the end of the term the landlords, trustees of the late Mrs Cotton-Brown, put the house and land to public auction. A good description of the house and land is given in the auction pamphlet Ref: RR 15/27. William Alfred Green managed to buy the house and 18 of the 30 acres at auction. The reduced acreage may explain the sudden reduction in strawberry sales (see day book Z 994/1). The licence for the Inn was discontinued in 1913 and the building eventually became known as North Road House. (PRG 1996).
Level of description
fonds