Photo above: Circa 1950s.
At the Brewster Sessions in August 1895, an application was made for a licence, as there were 1500 occupants living locally and a nearby CO-OP shoe workers factory.
The Bench would not sanction plans for any house which was evidently intended to be a mere drinking establishment. Plans were to be re- submitted.
It was then claimed that a train station and goods wharf, was to open nearby and a licence would be transferred from the Coachmakers Arms.
That swung it, and a licence was granted.
100 years later and the train Station still hadn’t materialised.
It was closed in 2011 and turned into flats. For once, this was sympathetically done, retaining the ornate relief work and much of the exterior.
