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59 Station Approach
Hayes
020 8462 2865
https://www.reganshayes.com/
https://whatpub.com/new-inn
Above photo, 23 April 1937. |
Above photo, pre 1940, kindly sent by David Rowe. |
Above photo 2009 by Ewan Monro
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above photo of bar 2015. |
Above photo of dining area, 2017. |
The Hayes Branch of the Royal British Legion was founded in 1933 and used
to hold its meeting in the premises.
The original building received a direct hit in the blitz of 1940. The
cellar was being used to store wartime ammunition which had to be rescued
from the burning building and taken to the "Fox"
across the road. The licensee Fred Mallows was seriously injured and
severely burnt.He was eventually taken to the Queen Victoria Hospital at
East Grinstead, Sussex to be treated by the emenent New Zwealand plastic
surgeon Dr. Archibald McIndoe, who had achieved uch wonderful results when
treating the badly and injured pilots who later became members of the famous
Guinea Pig Club.
The bombed shell was eventually rebuilt as a replica of the 1938
building.
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Excerpts from
http://www.bbc.co.uk
From Wartime Childhood memories, by Bill Margaret.
One night ‘The New Inn’ at Hayes took a direct hit and the publican,
Fred Mallows, was seriously injured and severely burnt. He was
eventually taken to The Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead,
Sussex to be treated by the eminent New Zealand plastic surgeon Dr.
Archibald McIndoe, who had achieved such wonderful results when treating
the badly burnt and injured pilots who later became members of the
famous Guinea Pig Club. Fred was a close friend and once he was
conscious he kept asking for my Father, so my parents went down to East
Grinstead to see him. Fred was worried about the Inn’s security during
his absence. He wanted to give my Father the keys for safety as he did
not trust any one else with them. He did not realise that the Inn had
been completely flattened by the bomb, there was nothing left to secure.
It was early days in his recovery, he was very sick and so they could
not tell him that there was nothing left to lock up, so they took the | |