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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Eight Bells was situated at 246 High Street. This pub was present by 1747 and demolished in 1972. It stood near to, but predated, St Andrews church. The name relates to the peal of bells at St John’s, Hillingdon. The pub was demolished to make way for the construction of St Andrew’s roundabout and the relief road.

The public house known as The Eight Bells which always struck the kiddy as a pretty old world roadside public, but which might have been made more picturesque by the exercise of a little taste by the occupier.

Peregrinations of a Kiddy, 1873

On Wednesday last an Inquest was held at the Eight Bells, Hillingdon End, by Thomas Sterling, Esq., coroner, on the body of a man who had travelled from Witney, in Oxfordshire, in company with some mowers, and going on Sunday evening towards a barn, intending to pass the night, in order to be near their work next morning, suddenly fell down and expired. Verdict: Died by the visitation of God.

Newspaper. 13 June 1834.

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