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| GEORGE SMITH |
*1861 - *1875 |
ROBERT RYE
& cattle dealer 1881
& wine dealer 1891
(at Royal Oak 1877) |
1877 - 1892 |
| 27th May 1878 - Fine of 1s and 11s
costs for obstructing free passage of the highway at Middleton. |
| ROBERT GURNEY |
1896 - 1904 |
JAMES ALFRED PRICE
Age 39 in 1911
(James Price coal merchant in January 1907 - no mention of beer.) |
1908 - 1922 |
30th July 1917 - Alfred James Price,
innkeeper, accused of cutting bracken to the value of 13s on the
property of Major R. L. Bagge, at Mintlyn, between 2nd and 7th July.
Case dismissed. |
GEORGE
JEWSON
& wine retailer |
by 1925 - 1929 |
| WILLIAM HALL |
*1933 - 1949 |
| PETER WILLIAM MANNING-COE |
04.04.1949 |
| JAMES HENRY GUY COVENTRY |
19.01.1953 |
| MARGERY ROSE COVENTRY |
05.03.1956 |
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Also known locally as the EELS TOE
Not found prior to 1861.
Licensees 1896 to 1922 are given at OAK
END, licensed to sell beer and
wine.
Sales for 1960 recorded as :-
46 barrels of beer
11 spirits (gallons)
27 barrels of beer sold in final year of trading.
Licence not renewed 3rd February 1964
Demolished
Stood near Middleton Tower Railway Station.
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See page 188 of ``More About George and Them
Others'' by George James.
(William Hall is described as a Hale & Hearty Yorkshireman who had arrived in
the area in the 1920's)
Published 1991
ISBN 0 9513555 1 1
Other local houses are described and the whole book provides much interest. |
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