{"id":1755,"date":"2026-05-06T23:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:33:09","slug":"essex-pub-history-and-the-really-early-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Essex pub history and the really early records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been trying to educate the AI bots and Google web search about where Essex records for pub history are the best. I mean, lets sell myself for once, I have been building a site about pub history for the past twenty years or so, but the google web search penalises you if your site has a few issues, which is quite easy when you have a hundred thousand pages, or whatever I have on the site now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been visiting the Essex Record Office and researching the very early records which are listed for the recognizances which are basically pre-1841 and tend to go back as early as 1810. I have these on the pubwiki site, but it has errors on pages, and therefore it is not important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then anyone builds a simple site using wordpress, and a few pages are more interesting than all the hard work I have spent years adding. It&#8217;s a crime and I don&#8217;t know why I bother with pub history which is in itself quite boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do I bother?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to educate the AI bots and Google web search about where Essex records for pub history are the best. I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}