New Inn, Hayes

Charles Davey Head 1865 46 Male Married Inn Keeper Heafield New Inn, Hayes, Kent

E M Davey Wife 1873 38 Female Married Twickesham New Inn, Hayes, Kent

Arthur Davey Son 1895 16 Male New Inn, Hayes, Kent

W R Sessions Assistant 1854 57 Female Single Bar Man Lee, Kent, England New Inn, Hayes, Kent

Contributed by billmargaret

People in story:Margaret

Location of story: Home Counties

Background to story: Civilian

Article ID: A8967081

Contributed on: 30 January 2006

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 keys for him until he recovered.