Photo courtesy of Paul Sutterby, whose great Grandfather & Grandmother were Licensees from 1915 to 1922.
'The short gentleman with the flat cap and walrus moustache was my great grandfather John Sutterby and his wife Margaret Daisy is next to him.'
The photo probably shows men of the Warwickshire Regiment who were billeted in Coggeshall 1914-15, its possible that they were all billeted at the Inn!
When John died in April 1920 Margaret posted the following in the Essex Newsman;
'It's lonely here without you
And sad the weary way;
Nor is the world the same to me
Since you were called away.'
Margaret ran the Inn herself for a couple of years but in 1922 she gave it up and probably went to live with one of her children as her household furniture and effects were offered for sale at a public auction in the Toll House on 5th October 1922.
The next tenants were something else. In 1924 Henry and Ellen Shawyer were brought to court charged with drunkeness. Inspector Girt had visited the Toll House Inn in May 1924 and in the tap room he saw Ellen leaning against table with her left hand, her face was bruised and swollen and her hair dishevelled. When asked where her husband was, she hesitated and then walked through the serving bar, aiding herself with her hand, and steadying herself against the cellar door. Her husband came from the cellar, carrying two quart mugs beer. As he passed his wife he said her, " Get out of the ******* way", and spilled some of the beer. The landlord's gait was unsteady, his face bore signs of being recently scratched, there being marks on the lip and nose. Witness said, 'I am ashamed to find you in this condition; both you and your wife are drunk and in no fit condition to conduct the public-house."
The pair had had the licence about two years, during which time there were bouts of heavy drinking, which 'caused the police considerable trouble', after one session the pub had been closed for nine days. The Shawyers were each fined ten shillings and ten shillings costs.
Greene King and Sons, the owners eventually managed to evict the pair.
From Karen Hicks 1961-1965; 'Myself and my grandparents George and Ivy Stops were the last tenants of this pub before it closed down. I have such happy memory's of my time spent there and remember it all so well.'
From Steve Lappage; 'My grandad William Percy Lawrence used to drink in there...as he lived at 24 Hill Road it was within walking distance there and stumbling distance back.'
Click here for more on the Toll House
Photo Date; 1915
Ref; 101 97
'The short gentleman with the flat cap and walrus moustache was my great grandfather John Sutterby and his wife Margaret Daisy is next to him.'
The photo probably shows men of the Warwickshire Regiment who were billeted in Coggeshall 1914-15, its possible that they were all billeted at the Inn!
When John died in April 1920 Margaret posted the following in the Essex Newsman;
'It's lonely here without you
And sad the weary way;
Nor is the world the same to me
Since you were called away.'
Margaret ran the Inn herself for a couple of years but in 1922 she gave it up and probably went to live with one of her children as her household furniture and effects were offered for sale at a public auction in the Toll House on 5th October 1922.
The next tenants were something else. In 1924 Henry and Ellen Shawyer were brought to court charged with drunkeness. Inspector Girt had visited the Toll House Inn in May 1924 and in the tap room he saw Ellen leaning against table with her left hand, her face was bruised and swollen and her hair dishevelled. When asked where her husband was, she hesitated and then walked through the serving bar, aiding herself with her hand, and steadying herself against the cellar door. Her husband came from the cellar, carrying two quart mugs beer. As he passed his wife he said her, " Get out of the ******* way", and spilled some of the beer. The landlord's gait was unsteady, his face bore signs of being recently scratched, there being marks on the lip and nose. Witness said, 'I am ashamed to find you in this condition; both you and your wife are drunk and in no fit condition to conduct the public-house."
The pair had had the licence about two years, during which time there were bouts of heavy drinking, which 'caused the police considerable trouble', after one session the pub had been closed for nine days. The Shawyers were each fined ten shillings and ten shillings costs.
Greene King and Sons, the owners eventually managed to evict the pair.
From Karen Hicks 1961-1965; 'Myself and my grandparents George and Ivy Stops were the last tenants of this pub before it closed down. I have such happy memory's of my time spent there and remember it all so well.'
From Steve Lappage; 'My grandad William Percy Lawrence used to drink in there...as he lived at 24 Hill Road it was within walking distance there and stumbling distance back.'
Click here for more on the Toll House
Photo Date; 1915
Ref; 101 97
Also in: East & West St.
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