Uncle Tom’s Cabin was up for auction in February 1854:
FOR AUCTION February 1854
IN STANLEY STREET HUMBERSTONE RD.
All that newly erected public house called Uncle Toms Cabin situated at the Upper end of Stanley Street, good cellarage large yard & carriage way in the occupation of Thomas Osborne.
Then in September 1854 the same ad appeared with the added ‘Gateway entrance site of 357 sq yds, well adopted for a Brewery.’
Thomas Osborne was bought to court in September 1853 for serving ale at midnight. Osborne claimed that all twenty-five persons drinking in the Uncle Tom’s Cabin were relatives. That excuse didn’t wash and he was fined 10/-.
Osborne was to soon get into trouble with money debts. It didn’t help as he ran off with another women leaving his wife, Ann, and children to fend for themselves, Thomas Osborne soon found himself in prison, it was told at court he was a man ‘not to be trusted.’
Little more is known as yet on Uncle Toms Cabin or Thomas Osborne. Did it become the Stanley Arms?
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