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Anchor Inn, Isleham Fen
History of the Anchor Inn
1901 The Anchor
Rebecca Williams, widow, 56, retailer of beer and spirits, b Norfolk
John, 22, b Suffolk
Hannah Pope, 26, b Suffolk
Ernest, 26, engine driver for farm, b Suffolk
Frederick, 4, b Isleham
Elsie, 3, b Isleham
1911 The Anchor
Rebecca Williams, 67, publican,
John, 42, farm labourer,
George Pope, son in law, 36, farm labourer,
Hannah Pope, daughter, 36,
Frederick Pope, grandson, 16, farm labourer,
Elsie Pope, grand daughter, 14,
Harold Pope, grandson, 7, Isleham
In the 1930s a widow Ada Thompson lived here as publican. It was not closed until the 1950s.
Polly Hill, The History of Isleham Fen in the 1930s, has a biography of Mary Wells who in 1904 went to live in once of the Anchor cottages, next to the public house.
She also writes about Richard and Vera Williams. Richard was born in 1905 in one of the Anchor Cottages.
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