(Photo above), The Bakers Arms, shows the pub sign on corner East Short Street.
Baker, Thomas Platt obtained a beer house licence sometime during the 1850s, running as both baker and victualler until the circa 1869, then the Clayton family ran the bakers for forty years. During the latter stages of World War I, Robert Stroud was victualler.
Thomas Hammond and his son, Alan, were in charge through into World War II, (the Hammond family kept a number of pubs in the city). Frances and Elizabeth Brooks followed until near the pubs closure circa 1954. Three families thus dominated as tenants for around 100 years, a rare feat suggesting a homely regulars pub – although Ed Clayton was fined one guinea for being open after hours in 1870.
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