Photo above: 1880s map showing Bedford st. and the warrens of houses and streets off of it.
Stood on corner of Fleet st. and Bedford st. often recorded as 2 Fleet st.
c.1840-1922 when license was refused at the Brewster sessions.
Compensation was claimed and paid £170 to the tenant widow and £687 going to the owners. The compensation was paid on 31st March and the pub closed a week later on 6th April 1922.
August 1844 Joseph Hadden fined 10/- open during divine service on a Sunday.
March 1896, a strange case of Thomas Bayliss, licensee, of ‘Harbouring a Police Constable’ Sgt Botterill on going down Bedford St 12-15am saw a light on in the Woodboy, he knocked on the door which was opened by the licensee with PC Colver standing behind him. In his defence Thomas Bayliss said that the PC had knocked on his door after time and asked for a rum to warm him up, the landlord refused. When PC Colver wouldn’t take any hint to leave, Bayliss relented and to get rid of him gave the PC a glass of ale, then the sergeant turned up. Thomas Baylis was reprimanded in court and told not to serve any policemen in the future.