The Plough - Edwin Osgood

[Heidi Stone]

My g grandfather ran a pub called The Plough around 1915-ish. His name was Edwin Osgood. It was a Whitbread pub. Whitbread distributed their archives about 3 years ago and are not available on line yet. I can't find the pub with Edwin as Landlord in any of the directories available on line. Does anyone have the facility and the time to check these details for me with their available sources? The only other clue I have is Brooklands Farm - this might be a red herring. IUn advance - thank you for taking the time to help. Heidi

[Chasing Caseys]

Hello Heidi

The Plough sounds so familiar but i suppose there were a lot of them and Brooklands was somewhere that when i was at school they took you there for the weekend and i cant remeber if i went or not ! ( well i am 42 now !) I think i remember a Plough in Bulphan if so Thurrock Council may be able to help you or point you in the right direction. I will phone a friend and ask about Brooklands and if you do call Thurrock Council and have no luck i will see what my sister in law can find out as she works there ! There must be licensing Laws registered with them or someone - providing they had licensing laws then - im sure you dont have to wait for Whitbreads archives.
Were your Osgoods from Essex ?
Assuming you havent got any further than this post !( although im sure you have)

Tracey
bye the way i dooooooooo live in Essex

[Andrew Mead]

What about getting some of Rod's excellent trade directories for the area?!

Andrew

[brian5635]

Have you visited http://essexpub.net/pubindex.htm It lists most of the pubs in Essex so might be of some help. Just a Chance
Jean

[Chasing Caseys]

I found that site on another posting yesterday and couldnt for the life of me remember where so i couldnt put it on my original reply. I did look at it and its a very good sight if your searching that sort of thing.

[get2BJ]

Hello Heidi,

There was a pub called The Plough in Bradfield, but I don't know if it's still there. The Essex Pubs Site has a listing for every publican right up until 1912 - just short of your target year of 1915!

http://essexpub.net/Bradfield/plough.htm

The other news is that Bradfield is only about 3.5 miles (5.7 Km) SE of Brantham, where a Brooklands Farm once operated. The site of Brooklands Farm was sold off to a manufacturing company in 1887. The new owners set about building a new factory and a residential village for its employees.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Brantham

and http://www.plastiquarian.com/britxyl.htm

Hope this helps

Brenda