Photo taken in 1946 John Zeinteck.
Built in 1827, the Talbot also had an entrance from the parallel Brook Street. Also a covenant that the back door leading to the rear yards where there were houses was to be left open at all times during opening hours.
In 1835, Sam Haddon was listed as brewer and he was still there some twenty years later. The Talbot apparently brewed its own until LBM purchased the pub on the 21st of May 1897. The deeds state that LBM bought the pub from John Carr on the site of a former inn also called the Talbot, suggesting a rebuild.
In 1900, three men – William Bloxam, Henry Jacobs (both aged thirty four), and William Clarke (twenty six), were charged with stealing an eighteen gallon barrel of stout from the Talbot. Two of the men – Bloxam and Jacobs – had been earlier thrown out of the Talbot for being disorderly. At the time LBM was delivering the beer to the pub, the drayman unfortunately left the cellar unlocked: Bloxam and Jacobs took advantage. The next day Alf Carr, the Talbot landlord, discovered the barrel was missing. A fellow lodger at Jacobs’ house testified that Bloxam and Clarke had bought a barrel of stout on a truck to Bloxam’s house, emptying the beer into a wash tub. By the time Jacobs arrived, the house was full of neighbours drinking the free stout. When the police arrived at the house the next morning they found Bloxam, Clarke and Jacobs still drinking next to a half empty wash tub of stout: the empty cask was found over an adjoining wall.
The three men protested their innocence by claiming they had found the barrel in the street. The magistrates were not taken in by their story. Bloxam – an unsavoury character and supposed ringleader – was given six months hard labour, Jacobs one months hard labour and Clarke discharged.
Talbot photo by Chris Pyrah
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