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Now flats, No.32 Nutley Lane used to be the Prince of Wales Beerhouse (we think that a licence was granted at a later date). It's not clear when this photo was taken, but the chances are that it was at the time when the Landlord was one of the three generations of Muddles who were there, and the man in the doorway is probably one of the William Muddles. The advertising board next door is for Wickens, who owned the yard opposite and run a bus company, amongst other things. By 1968 it had ceased to trade.
We came across this picture on The History of Reigate and Redhill site (www.redhill-reigate-history.co.uk), Public Houses of Reigate, Past and Present section. This is a joint effort by Alan Moore and Richard Symonds, who have very kindly let us use this photo. If you wish for a copy, then you must contact them directly.
This photo is copyright.(Alan Moore and Richard Symonds) |
Looking North along Nutley Lane, with Colley Hill in the background. The building to the immediate right was the Prince of Wales, now number 32.
The Prince of Wales
The Muddles were publicans in Nutley Lane from before 1881 until at least 1932. Jane Muddle is shown as a beer retailer in Nutley Lane in 1881 after the death of Henry, and he is shown as publican in 1874 on the Marriage Certificate of William and Anne Tullet they had possibly been there for quite a while before 1881. It would appear that the later premises were in a different location to Jane and Henry's beer house, as William Muddle is shown in the 1902 Kelly's Directory as a Beer Retailer of 32 Nutley Lane. Those premises were subsequently called The Prince of Wales althoug I don't know when it was given that name. It didn't receive a 'full licence' until a lot later, and may have changed names then. It was apparently only built at the turn of the century and eventually pulled down in 1959.
Kelly's directories show W.H.Muddle at 32 Nutley Lane, as a beer retailer, until 1932, but Henry and Jane's son would have been living in Sussex earlier than that as Jane died there in 1931. It would therefore appear that the grandson W.H.Muddle had taken over the licence at some time.(Richard Cordle) |
William Muddle and his wife Ann (nee Tullett) with their Grandson Frederick Rolfe Muddle in the Grounds of Avon Lodge at Pevensey Bay c1920.
(c) We have very kindly been allowed to use this photo by Derek Miller, who owns the 'The Muddle Families' website (www.muddlefamilies.info), from which it has been taken. Do not use this photo without their permission.
Copyright.(Derek Miller) |
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