The Half Moon was already flourishing in the early 1820s when it appears in a local trades directory under the management of Mr John Blackburn. In the 1840s he was followed by William Hudspeth.

The 1841 Census shows the pub occupied by Robert McIntosh, a Scottish mariner, and his wife, Mary, who was the innkeeper. She also appears in the 1851 Census in which her birthplace is given as Newbiggin. At the time she was a widow, living with her nephew, William Carr, butcher, and family.

She and William Carr appear in the local directories as the licensees of the Half Moon throughout most of the 1850s. They were followed as tenants by Mrs Mary McCulloch, a Londoner, who was still there in 1869, but then seems to fade from the local records.

Hector Robertson, from Perth, may have been the licensee in 1871 and was certainly there by 1873. He appears in the 1881 census but died before the end of the year. In the 1880s and early 1890s, the Trainer family was in occupation, followed by the Woods up to the Great War.

The Nicholsons, seen here, lived there during the 1920s. A marching jazz band, the Tin Can Fusiliers, used the Half Moon as their base in the 1920s and 1930s.

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