The Chequers Inn Cholsey

[LizzieL]

I remember also someone locally who said he was born in the pub (upstairs)
I may be getting confused but think it was a younger lad who's father ran the pub just over the bridge in Crowmarsh Gifford ?

Crowmarsh is just over river bridge from Wallingford, Cholsey is a couple of miles from Wallingford on "Berkshire" side. According to my late father, pubs in Berkshire used to close at 10.30 and those in Oxon at 11.00 on Saturday nights, so at 10.31 there was a stampede over the bridge from Wallingford to Crowmarsh to get a bit more drinking time. This would have been late 1940s/ early 1950s. I expect the boundary changes in the 1970s put a stop to that.