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Picture source: Karl Vaughan

The Leather Bottle was situated on Small Dean Lane. This pub was bought by Weller Brewery in 1900. It closed in the 1950s and is now long demolished.

My Great Grandfather Henry Judd was the Landlord of this pub I believe he had the pub in 1915 and ran it up until he died in the 1950s. I have quite a few old photographs of the pub and the people who lived there and frequented it dating back to when my mother and all of her 5 siblings and her father Arthur Judd lived there. My mother’s mother died when she was just 4 1/2 months old and all of the six children were living at the pub with their parents at the time, Alice and Arthur Judd (one of Henry Judd’s sons). The children had to be raised by their grand parents and my mother’s mother Florence Pigg as their father worked on the railway and need to continue to provide for the family. I remember being there as a very small child while the bungalow and barns were still there. There was no mains water only 2 wells …and an outside toilet with a bucket under a plank with a hole in it….The pub ran through both world wars despite it being so isolated. I recently visited the site of the pub and the church in Wendover where my grandparents are buried…

Lynne Cole (May 2026)

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Picture source: Lynne Cole

Picture source: Lynne Cole

Picture source: Lynne Cole