Photo above: Dew Drop in foreground with lamp outside corner of Chester and Denmark Street. As you look along the street on the next corner is the County Arms, on the far corner near the church is the Turks Head.
Only recording seems to have been in 1870 directory, with Frederick Atkins as beer house keeper (which would relate to the previous year). At the Brewster sessions in March 1870 Joseph Bent was listed as licensee, and he transferred the licence to Joseph Richards. Little is known after that.
Dew Drop Inn was often a humorous play on the phrase take on ‘Do Drop”. In.’ Some researchers claim that the Dew Drop and County Arms are the same, but the Brewsters licensees are listed as separate entities with different victuallers for 1869-7, so it does seem that the Dew Drop was a short lived beer house.
In March 1868, landlord Joseph Bent hosted a meeting of the Beerhouse Keepers and Brewers Association at his Chester St pub, the DEW DROP; in March 1870 the license was transferred to Joseph Richards, then three months later transferred again to Fred Atkins. It can’t have been popular at all, especially with the COUNTY ARMS next door.
Thanks Chris, appreciated.