Licensed Victualler

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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 5,730 Send Message	Staffs Col	Report	21 Jan 2009 11:32
	Anyone know if there is a record of licensed victuallers from the 1940's on line anywhere?
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20,615 Send Message	Heather	Report	21 Jan 2009 11:45
	Wouldnt have thought so - but the local records office may have the application? Some areas have pubs listed on line with their landlords - so you could have a google using the pub name/area Would add that licensed victuallers often left wills, so worth looking at that too.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	21 Jan 2009 13:16
	If you could get to the library local to the area (or maybe if you phone, even?) there might be town directories held there. I went to Retford Library and found my great-grandad listed in the Retford Directory from 1928 until 1938, I think, as a licensed victualler. They might have something similar.
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 39 Send Message	susiwong	Report	21 Jan 2009 13:58
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 39 Send Message	usually find that a licensed victualler sold alcohol, as they had to have a court licence, but a victualler sold food. So as it's an inn she could have been in charge of the catering. A posh name for cook , lol. Victuals is actually an old name for food Sue