The Wheatsheaf Inn, Burn

Nice pub, had lunch there last summer.

Just found out my great-great-great-grandfather, William Firth, was an innkeeper in Burn in 1841 so it looks like it might have been here. William is the only 'innkeeper' in Burn on the census returns for 1841, but there was a Thomas Collins who was a 'publican' in Burn - I would think the 'inn' would be on the main road, as the Wheatsheaf is, and perhaps there was another pub on one of the roads off the main road.

If Ian the landlord (or anybody else) knows any more about the pub in the 1840s I'd be glad to hear from them.

I'll be back next May, mine's a pint of bitter and Yorkshire pudding with sausages and gravy please.

Kim

4 Dec 2004 21:39