Joe Jenner with a vintage wedding car in the Kings Arms yard 1963

Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner ran his taxi and chauffeur business from some old stables and a tiny office in the yard of The Kings Arms Hotel. Standing here beside one of his prestige vintage steeds, a 1921 Sunbeam saloon.

During Ernest Blackton’s time in the late 1920s, Wolfe Garage had run a taxi service from the Kings Arms yard. Len Skinner working at Wolfe Garage at that time, remembers the young Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner joining the garage around 1925 as a taxi driver alongside Ron Wells.

When Harry Bond took over the proprietorship of Wolfe Garage in 1929 some changes were made, and the taxi service was shut down. Frank ‘Joe’ Jenner raised some backing to continue the business as his own, along with his brother Arthur. There was clearly demand for the work, as he was still running the service some forty-five years later.