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The Travellers Rest was situated on Cock Lane. This pub is now in residential use.

My Uncle, Stan White ran this pub from the 1950s to the 1970s. Although it is in the Southend area of Bradfield it's address was actually Tutts Clump. He took it after leaving the Army and was always known by the locals as the Major. As well as being a pub it was a smallholding and he kept pigs, chicken, geese and turkeys. As a child I spent all my school holidays there helping out and learned how to change the barrels as well as looking after the animals. My parents also ran the pub when my Uncle went on holiday When he first ran it, it belonged to Blatches Brewery in Theale and I remember going with him to the brewery to collect a barrel when he was running out. At that time the pub had outside toilets and a public and lounge bar with a corridor between for off sales. It was later taken over by Ind Coope and modernised with inside toilets installed. The regulars were a mixture of farm workers in the public bar and Masters from the nearby Bradfield College in the lounge bar.

Colin Fielding (January 2014)

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Name Dates Comments Maxine Campbell 1966/1970 I’m the granddaughter of Major Stan White. The last owner of Travellers Rest I spent most of my life there also with my nan Mrs Win White

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