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Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - Journal Page 9 (Continued from page 8) depression of trade, and the loss maintained by the non-letting of stalls is also very great, from the same cause. I must ask as a favour that the proprietor of the property will reduce the present rent to £60 per annum from December 21 st until the revival of trade enables my tenant once again to return to the rent. I think this request is most reasonable and I trust will be acceded to. Yours faithfully, William Ratliff” The trustees wrote back stating that they could not reduce the rent, but owing to the depression in trade would make some allowance. They eventually had the “tea room” repaired and rep [ainted at their own cost in lieu of an allowance of rent In 1863 the tenant was Joseph Batchelor. The pub and the Market House was demolished in 1900 and the site sold. The Hare and Squirrel, The Market Place; formerly the “Old Crown Inn” was later refronted and modernised then renamed the “Crystal Palace”. In 1543/4 there is reference to the Crowne Inn, leaseholder Richard Ratclyff. This may be the same premises. The name was changed from the Hare & Squirrel to the Crystal Palace by Ebenezer Brown (1828-1905) when he purchased it for £290 before 1863. Eb. Brown turned it into Nuneaton’s main place of entertainment in the last quarter of the 19 th century. The Crystal Palace at Attleborough is its lineal descendent. Former tenants in the 18 th century had been Thomas Williams and a Mr. Smart followed by John Burton. John Beamish kept it in 1801-6. Later tenants were Mary Beamish (1828), James Ball (1841) (who had married a Sarah Beamish in 1837) Ebenezer Brown (by1863). Ebenezer Brown was a local entrepreneur who provided a large concert hall and made the “Crystal” into Nuneaton’s principal place of entertainment. He was later a member of the syndicate that built the Prince of Wales Theatre (later the Hippodrome) at a cost of £20,000. Later landlords included George Taylor ,Annie Wrighton (1898) In November 1899 the Crystal Palace was under the new management of Mr. H. B.Jennings (late of the “Prince of Wales” Moseley and the “Waggon & Horses” Edgbaston Street, Birmingham. At that time it was said to have had the “Finest Smoke Room in town”. With resident pianists – Mr. R. A.Hughes and Mr. George Wynne. On 7 th June 1900 the pub was seriously damaged by fire with £1000 worth of damage. George Luckman was the last landlord when it closed on October 5 th 1909 for road widening and the license transferred to the new “Crystal Palace” in Gadsby Street, Attleborough which cost £2000 to build. The Crystal Palace gave its name to a new public hall and leisure gardens on the corner of the newly laid Victoria Street and Queens Road – the Palace Gardens which was later used as a site for the Palace Cinema in 1926. This had formerly been a large house in its own grounds and old fashioned gardens. The White Swan. Market Place. Kept by John Buswell 1806. An Ansells house latterly. Closed Sunday 30 th December 1962. The premises were purchased by Lesters the Chemist. The last landlords George & Winnie Handley had been there since 1953. A colourful landlady was Harriett Platt, the widow of Peter Platt who died in a flu epidemic in January 1922. Born in 1883 Peter Platt had been a very good footballer playing for Blackburn Rovers and Luton Town and latterly Nuneaton Town. He married Harriett Bradbury a widow whose husband had kept the White Swan previously. The Peacock. public house put on sale by auction March 1828. The highest bidder was £870. Former tenants include Thomas Thurman (1806) and Edward Thurman (1828). Edward Beamish (1841-1863) (formerly at the Hare & Squirrel). The Old Cock, Market Place. Was pulled down in 1818 to build the Market House and conveyed to the trustees of that establishment for a sum of £800 raised by public subscription. The Plough, Market Place. Joseph Walton (1806) Sarah Robinson (1828) Samuel Warren (1841). See notes on the Plough and Ball for more information on this pub which was demolished in 1845. The Bear, Market Place. Recorded in a survey of 1543/4 (Constable Survey) William Smyth (the Beire) tenant of Richard Herynge of Coventry. The Clock, Market Place. Replaced the Market House Inn. W.Limm was the landlord in 1938/9. White Hart, Market Place. The name was very popular in this part of the Forest of Arden with its deer hunting traditions.Where the Star Tea Cos. Shop was. In 1806 landlord was Thomas Cox, William Wagstaff 1828, 1841 Taylor & Estlin, 1863 David Bosworth. The Grapes, Market Place. Mr. Barlow’s Liquor shop was formerly two licensed houses, the Grapes and the Board Inn back to back with a whispering gallery..The former was abandoned. The old sign of the Board collapsed in 1899. The Board was kept in 1806 by Thomas Thompson and Mary Taylor by 1841. Market Place in the early 1900’s with the Board Inn on the left. Vicarage Street and Wheat Lane The Black Horse, an Ind Coope and Allsops house, on the corner of Vicarage Street and Wheat Street demolished in 1959.Mrs. A.Grant was the landlord in 1938/39. Its license was transferred to the Pheasant Inn on the Camp Hill estate which opened on December 4 th . 1958. The Heart in Hand. Built in 1850. On the opposite corner to the Black Horse in Wheat Street. Demolished at the same time. 1958. Frequented by railway footplate crews both before going onto duty and off duty. H.Mellor was the landlord in 1938/9. When it closed and its license was transferred to the newly built Donnithorne Arms in Donnithorne Avenue the last landlord Mr. M.Blewett said – “Noted for its friendly atmosphere and old fashioned interior. It is more like a village pub and I for one shall regret leaving.” Jolly Fishermen, Wheat Street. John Payne. (Continued on page 10)
Page 10 (Continued from page 9) Bridge Street Robin Hood, Bridge Street. Nuneaton had its own brewery from 1878 to 1886 which could produce 23,000 gallons of ale a week. Nom mean undertaking. Later was the site of the London Millinery Cos. J.C.Smiths and later Debenhams premises, Bridge Street, Nuneaton. The pub had as its sign a painting of Robin Hood in his red and green Sherwood foresters dress and under it the legend “Robin Hood is dead and gone, call and drink with Little John”. Little John was John Knowles who originally owned the brewery but the license was later taken by Joseph Merry. .The Woolpack, Newdigate Square. Now Mr. H.Lester’s house. The Nags Head. The original pub was in Coventry Street. Previous tenants were John Williamson (1806) Thomas Taylor (1827-1841) Mr. Taylor bought it for £800 in 1827. It was associated for many years with carters taking silk ribbons made in Nuneaton to sale on the London market via Coventry middle-men. It was also noted for its association with cock-fighting in the first half of the nineteenth century. The current pub in Queens Road was built in 1929 by George Hodges & Sons, builders of Burton on Trent. It was a Bass Ratcliffe & Gretton house. It was re-opened on the new site on 8 th March 1929. The former premises in Coventry Street were pulled down for road widening. The brewery that owned it then was Salt & Co. of Burton on Trent. They had been built about 1897 to replace a much older and antiquated “cottage like” premises that had been there since time immemorial. Attleborough The Bull, Attleborough. Believed to have been the Rainbow in George Eliot’s Silas Marner. The building we see today dates back to the 18 th century. It has been said that the stone, which is that anonymous lump of rock set in the grass verge along the Lutterworth Road called the Whitestone was originally part of a preaching cross which stood outside the Bull Inn. The Fox, The Square, Attleborough. Believed to pre-date 1819 as a beer house. W.J.Hardy (1938/9) When Alan and Josie Frisby took the pub over in 1991 they spent £200,000 refurbishing it. The new fit out was very tastefully done as it retained the atmosphere of a village pub. In 1997 they sold the pub to the Mansfield Brewery and are now owners of the Attleborough Arms which they have also refurbished at enormous cost. The Royal Oak, Garrett Street, Attleborough. An 1830 beer house. The Crystal Palace, Gadsby Street. Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - Journal Opened in 1909 to replace the Crystal Palace in the Market Place. The Blue Bell Inn, a beer house which stood where Park Street enters Attleborough Road. (also known as the Seven Stars). The Prince of Wales, next door to the Royal Oak. A beer house. The Steam Mill Inn, on the site of the elastic web works on Attleborough Green. This was quite an extensive beer house, with parlour, tap room, club room and skittle alley. It was offered for sale in 1871 and may have ceased to function as a pub then. The site being taken over by the elastic web weaving company. The Hit and Miss, Church Street. A beer house. The Waggoners, in Albion Street, the stretch of Attleborough Road where the Albion buildings are situated. The Miners Arms, site not known, possibly Lutterworth Road. The Three Crowns, was said to be an old fashioned thatched tavern, very old when William Gadsby (1773-1844) (an independent preacher born in Attleborough) drank there in the 19 th century. In Attleborough road somewhere opposite the Albion Buildings. It was owned in the early part of the 19 th century by George Greenway. The New Inn, Church Street, Attleborough moved to new premises on Attleborough Road opposite to the Albion Buildings. Then the name changed to the “Rugger Tavern” as the field at the back became the Nuneaton Rugby Football Ground The William IV, Attleborough. An 1830 beer house. The Plough, Attleborough. An 1830 beer house. The Attleborough Arms. A modern pub in Highfield Road, Attleborough. Recently modernised with a very high quality fit out. The Woodman, Hall End, Attleborough. An 1830 beer house kept by Joshua Hackett (1789-1872). When Joshua’s grandson ‘Jack’ or John Moreton Hackett died in 1930 the furniture from this house was given to various members of the family and a venerable long case clock from the Woodman, Hall End is now installed in a house in Arles in Provence in France. Chilvers Coton The Horse Shoes, 2 Heath End Road. Now the Lancet. S.Cooper was the landlord 1938/9. The Fleur de Lys. Coventry Road. A very old fashioned pub stood on this site until rebuilt eartly in the 20 th century. The publican in 1806 was Daniel Wadcock. The Rose, Coton Road. Believed to have started in the 19 th c. Still in use today. Said to be haunted by a little girl in the ladies loo! J.Bates (1938/9) The Sheepsfoot Inn. About one half of mile out of Nuneaton along the Coton Road where the road in olden times had a kink in it. Long since straightened out at a junction known as Sheeps Foot End. The King William IV. Coton Road. A beer house opened in 1830.Rebuilt in 1903 to the premises we see today. Still in use as a pub (2003). Dugdale Arms, Dugdale Street. Later rebuilt as the Merevale. Probably originally a beer house. In July 1894 the “Dugdale Arms” beer house was sold by Mr. Sands The Sportsman. Chilvers Coton an 1830 beer house. The Miners. Chilvers Coton. An 1830 beer house The Bull & Butcher. Chilvers Coton. An 1830 beer house. The Bull & Bitch. Chilvers Coton. An 1830 beer house. The Hare & Hounds. Bowed Lane, Chilvers Coton now off Heath End Road. An 1830 beer house. JohnBaker 1841,1850. (also listed as a farmer and grocer.) Mary Baker 1863. The Newdigate Arms. Griff Hollows. Not to be confused with the Newdigate Arms in Newdigate Square. It seems to have ceased to be a pub by 1850 although it is shown on Eagle’s Canal map of 1807. Its popular name was “The Bloody Hand” The Boot Inn. Bridge Street. Henry Randle 1828. A canalside pub one of the earliest pubs in Chilvers Coton. Rebuilt as a modern pub about 1930 when the canal bridge was widened. The Jolly Colliers. College Street. Stockingford The Lamb and Flag. Church Road, Stockingford an 1830 beer house. The Engine, Church Lane, Stockingford. An 1830 beer house. The Cripples Inn,Bucks Hill or Snow Hill, sometimes known as Cripples Inn. Replaced by the New Inn on the same site. E.H.Sephton 1938/9 The Black Swan. Swan Lane, Stockingford. An 1830 beer house. George F.Pegg 1938/9 The Heart Goodfellows. Swan Lane. An 1830 beer house. Still extant. A Marstons Brewery house. J.H. Boulstridge 1938/9. The Cherry Tree. Swan Lane. An 1830 beer house. Moved site in the late 1930’s to Haunchwood Road. A. Rowlands 1938/9 The White Lion, Swan Lane, now Croft Road early landlords were Mary Jeffcote (1806), Thomas Johnson (1828). The Plough Inn, Plough Hill Road, Chapel End. W.Hewitt 1938/9.
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