The Dixie Arms, named after the Dixie family, circa 1840. The Dixie Arms is recorded in a few court cases, twice in 1860 for unlawful opening and in 1879 for drunkenness on the premises. In 1880, a robbery occurred when money was stolen from the till.
Sometime the address is given as North Bond Street, sometimes St. Peters Lane, as this was the continuation of Bond Street.
Mainly from JR’s list:
1844, James Cotton. 1856, John Salt. February 1859, William Dixon.
J George Biddles 1948-52 was not the boxing promoter, a popular held belief.
The Dixie was closed and demolished late 1960s. A new Dixie was built on Vaughan Way.
NOTE: Although some of JR’s dates are not accurate I’ve copied them as recorded, his work was pre computer age so must have been very painstaking, he must have spent hours, days, months and years trawling through old records and directories as I did pre social media, a real pub man whom I met on a couple of occasions before he passed away, If some records of dates and names are inaccurate we can only report what is recorded, in earlier newspaper reports the facts given sometime mislead, (nothing changes) – Barry Lount
Joe Regan, I take my hat off to you.
I recall visiting this pub on its last day of opening I was a little underage at the time but a few of us visited because it was rumoured they would be selling the stock of cheap (they didn’t).
Thanks for your input Chris, thats what the project is all about