The Blackbird Inn Churchfields Road Salisbury
(Converted into Houses in 2002)

Sarah Jebbitt (nee Cope) - Landlady Birth: 1815 in Bilston or Tipton Staffs Kellys Directory of Salisbury 1880 Beerhouse Keeper Churchfields Road Salisbury 1881 Census : Fisherton Anger Salisbury Beerhouse Keeper Churchfields Road Fisherton Anger Note: After husbands death in a Railway accident she became the Landlady of the Blackbird Inn Churchfields Road Salisbury by way of compensation for the death. She was required to provide a nights food and lodging for the crew of the last train in Salisbury each night Sarahs Death: 22/4/1888 in Salisbury Wilts Sarahs Burial: 1888 London Road Cemetary Salisbury

Four Views of the Blackbird Inn taken by me in 1996 - I drank in there on many occasions whilst visiting
Salisbury to do research. Unfortunately on a return visit in 2003 I discovered the pub had closed down and
had been converted into Houses. If I had known about this I would have asked for a Keepsake!

Above are extracts from a letter I received in August 1997 from John Jebbitt (Son of John Hubert Jebbitt 'Jack'),
then living in New Zealand, in which he first tells me about the pub.