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

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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

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In the 1930s a widow Ada Thompson lived here as publican. It was not closed until the 1950s.

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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.