Photo above: Is the lady going in, coming out or thinking about it? Maybe she’s attracted to the tea room sign above the door.
This pub stood on the corner of Southgates and Millstone Lane.
The Duke of York is listed in Richard Weston’s Directory 1794, although the building appears to be older: JR has Charles Cramp as victualler in 1791.
In April 1845, the Duke of York was up for sale complete with slaughter house. Samuel Coleman was victualler at the time with Edward Kilburn taking on the licence in October 1845 with his wife, Elizabeth. She died five years later, aged only thirty-nine. Edward continued at the Duke of York and in 1864 he was fined 10/- or 10 days in prison for striking Robert Skeffington with a whip. Edward was to be there for thirty years until he died there in 1875.
Everards purchased the pub circa 1900. The Duke of York closed in May 1917, when its licence was refused at the Brewster Sessions.