Linden End, Haddenham

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History of Linden End

On of the properties in this street historically was The Vine.

1911 Linden End

Jame Adams, 50, widow, beer house keeper, b Haddenham

George, 26, market gardener, b Haddenham

Charles Ward, boarder, 76, agricultural labourer, b Middlesex

1916

Jane Adams, beer retailer

Mabel Demaine wrote about The Vine in her memoirs,Reflections of a Country Woman:

I think of Jane Adams a wiry, wrinkled little old lady, who had been a widow for many years when I first knew her. She had a deformed son. They lived together in a big, rambling public house, The Vine. Jane was the publican, she scrubbed those brick floors, table, settles, she polished the glasses and kept everywhere spotless. She had a regular, very respectable number of customers, most landworkers, who came for their evening pint and to chat over the village and national news.In those days everyone knew everyone else in the village, and their business. On summer evenings the door of that pub was always open and Jane’s voice could be heard joining in the discussions, passing on news items and in between filling up the beer mugs, she presided over the chatter.

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