From national press
10th March 1940
Tallest landlord (6ft. 3in.) has taller successor
For nineteen years the landlord of the Buck’s Head, Mitcham, has been Major W. H. Poole, who, standing 6ft. 3ins. tall, was the tallest licensee in the district.Yesterday the license was transferred to Mr. W. Langham, of Battersea, who is 6ft. 4 1/2 in., a former amateur boxer and film actor.
Both men are retired policemen.
Drunkenness.
William Finch, described as a labourer, living at Upper Mitcham, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the London-road, in the parish of Mitcham on the 6th inst. P.-c. 290 W stated that on Saturday evening he removed the prisoner from the Buck’s Head, where he had been creating a disturbance.
After he had got him into the road prisoner took off his coat and wanted to fight him.
Prisoner, who admitted the offence, was fined 5s. and costs 9s.
Source: Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter – Saturday 12 April 1879 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)
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