1841 licensee Edward Biggs transferd his licence to H Vann.
Sarah Smith held Licences Victualler Society meetings here in 1842, and was still recorded as the landlady a decade later. Inquests were also held here in June 1842.
Henry Webb was licensee in 1855, being fined for selling ale on a Sunday morning. PC Tarratt reported hearing men upstairs: when investigating he found one man behind the door and six more behind the bed. William Spriggs was licensee c1860, John Read also for a time in the 1860s. Also Thomas McDowell, John Piccaver was listed as owner and licensee 1863.
1874, an Inquest was held here on Amelia Greet, thirty-one, who was found drowned in the nearby Swan Mill Lane Wharf. Deceased was under the ice which had to be broken to get to her body. The inquest was told her mind had been disturbed by religious matters and she had been in the lunatic asylum. The Jury reached the verdict of ‘drowned herself whilst temporarily insane.’
1876 George Halford became licensee, Edwin Fox 1881. Charles Pestell April 1883 with John Carver in October that year. William Sansom 6 months later in April 1884, John Heath April 1885 and Caroline Heath August 1885. John Keeling 1888.
Another inquest headlined ‘overcrowding in bed’ in February 1891, was eighteen months old Rosina Bird, of 7 Dun Cow Yard Grange Lane.
James Rigby, by his own admittance had been drinking in the Newark Tavern from 6pm until 11pm and was worse for ware. He retired to bed with Clara Ann Bird. Clara told that Rosina was between them and another child. Charlotte Ella, plus an unnamed child were at the bottom of the bed. When Cara woke around 5-5:30 am she found Rosina was stiff and dead – the poor child had been suffocated. The coroner said it was close to criminal negligence and manslaughter, reprimanding Rigby and Bird for their ‘utterly disgraceful’ conduct. A verdict of misadventure was recorded.
Harry Townsend licensee 1906, the register has him deceased 1925 with another Harry Townsend taking over. c1935 William Collins, then c1955 Thomas Fitch.
The pub was supplied by Bates & Bishell and bought by LBM in February 1891. Although the licensing register still has John Picaver as owner until LBM. Newark Tavern Closed circa 1960.
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