Photo above: Providence Place in foreground, on far right partly demolished Hunstman, cornering Brook Street (Dennis Callow) c 1955.
Stood at no. 28, on the NW side of street, on the corner of Brook Street, from the mid 1860s to circa 1906.
List of licensees: 1869, Hannah Richards’s to Thomas Goodman in January1871. In August of that year, Goodman transferred to William Burrow and in December the same year Burrow to William Moore. 1879, Emma Moore bieflly to Joseph Rowe, before Fred Bryan then William Whitt in 1880. Chris Cunningham was keeping it in 1884 and he had his licence objected to as he had turned part of the beer house into private house. The objection was turned down.
Inquests were held here. One, in 1889, was when Flora Smith – only eight days old – was suffocated and died through ‘overlay’. The jury pointed out the imprudence of allowing two small children in bed with the parents, the other child only being aged 18 months.
William Webb was licensee in the 1890s, Thomas Evans, 1900. William Veasey, 1904.
