The Salmon

Research by Joan West

The Salmon was for many years a public house in Foundry Lane, next to The Sprat public house in Loosley Row

1851 census. The Salmon. Jonah Lacey 29, Jane C Lacey, 24, Lucy 4 months, Solomon Keen 40 slept in barn.

1861 census. The Salmon. Jonah Lacey 37 publican, Jane C Lacey publican' wife, Lucy 12, L? 10, Priscilla 4, John 2, Sarah Steel, 23 relative.

1871 census. The Salmon. Jane C Lacey widow 44 beer seller. Priscilla 14, John 12. William & Eliza Harvey & Lucy 1, lodgers.

1881 census. The Salmon. Jane C Lacey widow 53 beerseller. John 22 iron moulder, Jabez Lacey, boarder farm labourer

1891 census. The Salmon. Jane C Lacey widow 63 beer retailer, Priscilla Harvey 13 granddaughter, Edwin James 64 lodger.

1901 census. The Salmon. Harry Gomme 23 publican and cattleman on farm, Sarah Gomme 23, Harry W Gomme 3, Frank Gomme 2.

Connie Baker, nee Gomme, remembered Dr Hamilton at The Salmon. Connie said that Dr Hamilton was a keen gardener, who worked at the Elizabeth Carrot Anderson Hospital in London and that she came here at weekends.

In 1931 Kelly's Directory lists Miss Hamilton, as a private resident at Salmon Cottage.

1939 Register (census). The Salmon. Louisa Hamilton born in Edinburgh in 1874, retired Physician.

Louisa Hamilton died at The Salmon in 1948. Probate to solicitors £21,254 -17s -1d.

The following is an excerpt from the article 1956 Rita Probert (Autobiography)

In the 1950s here was still a 'class divide'. At The Salmon, Loosley Row lived Mr and Mrs Isdell-Carpenter, they, too, were kindly, but we ‘knew our place’ – they were upper class.   Their daughter Sally was one of the last Debutantes to be presented at Court.     They also had servants, which was very impressive. In the gardens of the Salmon in Foundry Lane which extended right up to Lower Road and incorporated a tennis court and a small wooden property called 'Crab Hall'. This had been constructed by the then owners Mr and Mrs Isdell Carpenter for the use of their children and friends. When the couple retired and moved to Surrey, that area of the former gardens, the tennis court and Crab Hall were demolished for housing.

Ianthe Brownrigg was living at The Salmon in 1966, the family moved away in 1969. She stated this in a questionnaire at a school reunion organised by Lacey Green History Group. click 1969 School memories by Ianthe Brownrigg