A narrow street in Hinxton lined with traditional timber-framed cottages, one featuring a projecting Red Lion pub sign.

Red Lion, Hinxton (MoC139/57)

Red Lion, 32 High Street, Hinxton

History of the Red Lion, Hinxton

Listed building

Inn. C17 or earlier. Timber-framed and plastered with painted and plastered brick plinth.

1891

Charles Hopwood, 58, publican, b Hinxton

Harry, 24, butcher, b Hinxton

William, 23, butcher, b Hinxton

Thomas Moule, boarder, 29, miller’s clerk, b Essex

Harriet Moule, 31, b Hinxton

Sarah Bowes, visitor, living on own means, b Great Abington

A narrow village street in Hinxton lined with traditional houses and a stone wall under a pale, overcast sky in March 1930.

Red Lion, Hinxton March 1930 (MoC218/54)

A village street in Hinxton features the timber-framed Red Lion pub with its two prominent gables and a projecting sign.

Red Lion, Hinxton, 1931 (MoC217/54)

A rural street scene with a white gabled inn on the right, a woman near a tree on the left, and a man standing with a bicycle.

Red Lion, Hinxton

Two-story, timber-framed building with twin gables, tiled roofs, and a hanging sign reading Royston Fine Ales The Red Lion.

Red Lion, Hinxton

1939 The Red Lion

George Whitehead, b 1865, inn keeper,

Mary Whitehead, b 1869,

Albert Whitehead, b 1900, farm worker,

Arthur Foskett, b 1872, warehouseman retired

Edith Foskett, b 1874

Two women stand on a village street near the white, timber-framed Red Lion pub, with a van and car parked by the curb.

Red Lion, Hinxton c.1960 (WK)

This photo shows in the foreground with dark hair and light coloured coat, Mary Esther Walton née Day. Her mother was Flora ‘Laura’ Glover b 1872 in Hinxton.

Projects

Hinxton

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