March 1846 There was held a meeting at the Coachmakers Arms in Church Gate of beerhouse keepers. Was the beerhouse named after the conducted business?. In the 1870 directory, Joseph Clewes was listed as licensee and as coach maker.
Clewes, who had previously been brought before the courts for allowing drinking on a Sunday morning on more than one occasion, was again summoned for the same offence in September 1870. The magistrates heard the evidence in his absence as Clewes was said to be too ill to attend. They decided as he had again infringed the law, they would refuse to renew his licence. One report suggests, however, that he was allowed to keep his licence as long as he kept the yard gate closed, as that had been the means to enter the rear of the premises for the illegal drinking.
By October, however, the Coachmakers was put up for sale. It was advertised as having a parlour, tap, club room measing 36x25ft, six bedrooms, a large yard for stabling with two cottages in the yard, in the occupation of Joseph Clewes.
Joseph Clewes was indeed ill by this time, and died on the 4th of November, leaving his wife Mary Ann to run the business.
Then, in early 1871, the licence was transferred from Mary Ann Clewes to Robert Tivey.
Other licensees: Thomas Warner, 1854. Francis Baxter, 1879, followed by Eliz Baxter until the Coachmakers in closed in 1895. On the 22nd of August at the Brewster sessions the brewery offered the licence in transfer for the as yet built Manchester Hotel.