Looking for any information on the Queens Head Pub in Allens Green Hertfordshire. The pub is located approx 1/2 mile from the former RAF Sawbridgeworth airfield.
We are seeking any information that may help shed some light on the pubs past and any link it may have with the former airfield.
Thanks in advance.
By: Denis - 12th February 2011 at 23:03
None that I have seen unfortunately. Paul Doyle wrote an excellent history of the airfield called ‘Where The Lysanders Were’ He had extensive access to all sorts of photographs but none that show local pubs and servicemen.
By: T-Bolt - 12th February 2011 at 22:22
Thanks Dennis, now I’m going to ask the (probably) impossible. Do any photo’s of ground crew either in or outside the pub exist?
Did the ground crews/aircrews use the Prince of Wales pub at all?
By: Denis - 12th February 2011 at 22:10
The original pub was closed several years ago and made into a private residence. However, one half of the building was retained as a small public house still bearing the Queens Head licence. It is now a real ale pub and has held several military themes in the past. It was a source of fundraising when we built the airfield memorial back in 2006, and hosted our planning meetings for a few months beforehand.
As far as we were able to discover, it was a haunt for groundcrew who didnt have far to walk to have a pint. The officers and pilots tended to frequent the pubs of Bishops Stortford though, according to F/O Doug Reich who flew Mustangs 1’s out of Sawbridgeworth. Another pilot S/L Ivor Harris who recently passed away, preferred ‘The Mill’, now the beefeater pub at Harlow Mill, who would cook his ill gotten Pheasant and Rabbits for him. There was also very fine Officers mess at Great Hyde Hall Sawbridgeworth.
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February 12, 2011 at 9:24 pm