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The Spread Eagle was originally a thatched cottage and
has been around since at least 1854.
Landlords
1841 Census - Mary Scroxton *
1854 Post Office Directory
-
Peake Reynolds
1876
Harrod & Co Directory - P
Reynolds
1881 Census - Samuel and
Betsey Reynolds
1890
Kelly's Directory - Peake Reynolds
1901 Census -
Samuel George Eaton *
1903
Kelly's Directory - John Patrick
1906
Kelly's Directory
- John Patrick
1914
Kelly's Directory
- James Slanger (or Stanger)
In the 1950s,
the
landlord and his family lused to live in the
house you can see to the left of the pub on the picture top centre..
Former villager Ann Giles, who was born in the
cottage next to the pub, recalls: "It was a lovely, cosy little pub
with small rooms. I remember the village football team used to change in a
room at the back and had to run down the street to play matches. In those
days you went upstairs to the skittle room and if they threw the cheeses
too hard they used to fly out of the window and we children would
get them and throw
them back up." (Information from a press clipping in Corby Library
Archives).
The current Spread Eagle was
built in the 1960s behind the original pub, which was subsequently
demolished.
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