Muston Gap newspaper article

This photocopy of an article from the Grantham Journal of 26/2/1993 records the retirement of pub landlady Mrs Linda Laws of the Muston Gap. Before the second world war the ‘Gap’ was known as the Wheatesheaf, and there is some uncertainty as to why it changed its name to the odd-sounding Muston Gap.

Creator

Grantham Journal

Date of creation

26-February-1993

Place

Muston, Muston Gap Pub

Contributor

Melvin Bradbury

Reference number

BOT/137/007

This catalogue record comes from: Bottesford Local History Archive

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The pub was always known as the Gap as far as l can remember even when it had its Wheatsheaf name on the outside. I was told the name ‘Gap’ stemmed from the distance it was from the village.
In the fifties they used to keep a flock of geese there and they would would wait for the bus from Grantham to turn down to the village and if it dropped any one off there they could be surrounded by this hissing mob. Sometimes the bus also suffered the same fate as it tried to make its escape into Muston.
By Tony Gammage (17/09/2017)
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Tony, thanks for the comments and history. Your contributions are most welcome. Please keep them coming! Neil Fortey (ed)
By Neil Fortey (17/09/2017)