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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