King William IV, The Causeway, Burwell

History of The King William IV

Opened c.1830

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1881

Jonathan Bridgeman, 55, sawyer and innkeeper, b Burwell

Charlotte Ann, 46, b Suffolk

Minnie, 12, b Burwell

Fred, 7, b Burwell

Emma, 5, b Burwell

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1891 King William the Fourth inn

Charles Copping, 46, publican, b Suffolk

Mary Ann, 50, b Burwell

Charles, 10, b Burwell

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28 May 1925

A Burwell publican came up for public examination at the bankruptcy court. In 1895 he was working for a man as a farm labourer and cab driver, also for the vicar of Burwell as groom and gardener. In 1897 he began business as a publican and took the King William. The only experience he had had was serving at a house where he had previously worked as a jobbing man in the yard. He bought a horse for haggle-carting purposes and to use in a fourwheeler & while he was carting his wife looked after the business. Trade at the pub got slack and the carting business was also a failure. He borrowed £40 from the Provincial Union Bank, Ipswich to pay the brewer. Credit: Mike Petty, Burwell Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, 1925 05 28.

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Pub closed 1992