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Licensees : |
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| HENRY MASON |
1842 |
| EDWARD SMITH |
1845 - 1846 |
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| THOMAS KENT |
1854 |
| Mrs SUSANNAH MINNS |
29.09.1855 |
| ROBERT TILLYARD ROWE |
27.12.1881 |
| WILLIAM TURNER |
20.06.1882 |
| FREDERICK HENRY KNIGHTS |
10.10.1892 |
| FRANK BALL |
16.11.1897 |
| STEPHEN HARRIS |
20.03.1900 |
| NORMAN GEORGE SNELLING |
09.02.1905 |
| SAMUEL WILLIAM MIDDLETON |
29.08.1905 |
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Also found as the EAGLE and as the
SPREAD EAGLE.
Stood almost opposite the West end of St. Gregory's
Church.
At the 1906 Licensing Sessions, 7th February
1906, the bench heard that
the house consisted of one room for public accommodation, but that the licensee
occasionally allowed customers to use his living room.
The police said that the house was small and inconvenient, with the backyard and sanitary
accommodation being shared with an adjoining house. There were 23 other licensed houses
within 200 yards.
The licence was provisionally refused and referred to Compensation.
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The first meeting of the
creditors of Samuel William Middleton and his brother,
Frederick Charles Middleton, trading as Middleton
Brothers, Boot manufacturers, was held Tuesday 20th
February 1906. Their business at Calvert Street showed
gross liabilities of £798 5s 4d and a deficiency of £616
2s 2d. The failure was caused by "Insufficient work for
the newly purchased machinery, the increase in the price
of leather and losses in the cutting room".
Samuel Middleton explained that he had entered the Boot
business with his brother some five years previously,
since they had both been employed in the trade as shoe
finishers. He was currently the occupier of the Eagle
Tavern, but paid no rent and the brewers paid the
licence. Although the licence was in his name, it was
held by the brewers. He was practically the manager with
no weekly allowance, he simply paid for what he got and
had the (very little) difference. He did not pay the
rates.
He had been advised by the brewers that since he had not
contributed to the compensation fund, he was not
entitled to any award made by the Licensing Committee
for the closure of the house.
The bankruptcy examination was closed. |
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House
closed under Compensation 23rd August 1907.
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