A TOUR OF OLNEY MARKET PLACE - NUMBER 8 THE BULL HOTEL

The Bull Hotel
No. 8 The Bull Hotel, 2005

Number 8 Market Place is the Bull Hotel and was once an important coaching inn and stopping place for the 'Beehive Coach' which ran between Wellingborough and London.

Before Olney's Railway Station was built in 1872, an omnibus ran daily between Bedford and Wolverton Station. When the rail passenger service was opened, a Conveyance ran from the Bull Hotel to the Station to meet every train.

The Bull was also used as a meeting place for Dinners and Auctions. The Inland Revenue even had an office here in 1883!

Landlords for the period of 1800 - 1940 were:

1801 Mrs Worley (widow)
1810/11 Thos Worley
1833 John Worley
1841 Sarah Baker
1844 Samuel Baker
1851 William Hipwell
1866 W.H. Lockyer (died in April of that year)

1887/8/9 Thomas Cannon
1891 Mrs J.M. Cooper
1907/11 Mrs Susannah York
1924 William John Trimmer
1931 Mrs Florence Wilson
1935 Arthur T. Simons
1939 William Crosby Packwood.