A photo of Fleet Railway Station, dated 1958. Â This closed to passengers in 1959, with the last goods train running in 1965.
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Hi I lived in the station house with my parents until I was eight dad worked on the railway as a lorry driver . There used to be a pub next door can any remember it’s name
Hi, Chris. I’ll make some enquiries and post them here in the comments. Keep checking back for a reply.
Regards, Stuart Henderson, South Holland Life Trustee.
I’ve made enquiries, and Joan Woolard has kindly provided the following information:
The pub was originally The Station Inn, presumably built when the railway began running through Fleet and there was a footpath along the side of the road for safe walking to it. Few people had cars in those days. The footpath no longer exists, being overgrown for years after the railway closed in the Beeching cataclysm. The original pub was replaced at a later date and called The New Inn before another replacement when it became The Old New Inn. Very confusing! It was The Old New Inn when I moved to Fleet in 1991 but recorded in the 1998 electoral list as just The New Inn. Since then it has been demolished and replaced with a private detached house belonging to P&R.
The Burnetts ran the pub for some years after the railway had closed; they were Scottish with 3 sons. Adam Burnett Sr was also an engineer in much demand with local farmers who always needed machinery fixing; he had a scrapyard behind the pub. After the pub closed, his favourite drinking hole was the Rose & Crown on Old Main Road, Fleet Hargate. This is now the only pub in the village; there were ten originally!
Hi, I just happened to google and came across your comments. The Adam Burnett was my grandfather and I am trying to locate some photos and more information into the background of my family I wonder if you can help me please? My dad was Jim
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Hi I lived in the station house with my parents until I was eight dad worked on the railway as a lorry driver . There used to be a pub next door can any remember it’s name
Hi, Chris. I’ll make some enquiries and post them here in the comments. Keep checking back for a reply.
Regards, Stuart Henderson, South Holland Life Trustee.
I’ve made enquiries, and Joan Woolard has kindly provided the following information:
The pub was originally The Station Inn, presumably built when the railway began running through Fleet and there was a footpath along the side of the road for safe walking to it. Few people had cars in those days. The footpath no longer exists, being overgrown for years after the railway closed in the Beeching cataclysm. The original pub was replaced at a later date and called The New Inn before another replacement when it became The Old New Inn. Very confusing! It was The Old New Inn when I moved to Fleet in 1991 but recorded in the 1998 electoral list as just The New Inn. Since then it has been demolished and replaced with a private detached house belonging to P&R.
The Burnetts ran the pub for some years after the railway had closed; they were Scottish with 3 sons. Adam Burnett Sr was also an engineer in much demand with local farmers who always needed machinery fixing; he had a scrapyard behind the pub. After the pub closed, his favourite drinking hole was the Rose & Crown on Old Main Road, Fleet Hargate. This is now the only pub in the village; there were ten originally!
Hi, I just happened to google and came across your comments. The Adam Burnett was my grandfather and I am trying to locate some photos and more information into the background of my family I wonder if you can help me please? My dad was Jim
I will pass your enquiry on to Joan.