KING’S ARMS Church Road

1822 - 23. Henry Melsom
1826. William Nason
1828 - 34. Richard Hooper
1837 - 40. Abraham Hooper
1841 - 44. William Turner
1847 - 49. Joseph Winter
1850. William Bryant
1853. William Henry Tippett
1853 to 1854. William Bassett
1855. ? Moor
1856. Charles Wood
1857. Thomas Gibbs
1858. George Osborne
1861. John White
1867 - 76. Alfred Dowswell
1881 - 96. Emma Broughton
1901. Benjamin Pike
1904. Frederick Westcott
1906. Thomas Sylvester
1906 to 1913. William Colenso
1913 to 1927. Albert James Owen
1928 - 35. Alfred Haynes
1937. Eric Hutt
1938. Thomas Edwards
1944 - 50. Ted Ashdown
1953. Arthur Hibbs
1960. W. L. Martin
1975. M. H. Hemmin

On the corner with Thomas Street the King’s Arms is still trading, this photograph dates from the early 1950’s.  The 1881 census shows ex-licensee Alfred Dowswell was still living at the King’s Arms as a boarder.