First recorded in the directory of 1870, although the beerhouse was in existence prior to that. In October 1869, Sarah Ironmonger advertised the Brookside Cottage for sale complete with new four pull beer engine f&f also some household furniture. William Hollin followed until February 1872, (although the 1870 PO directory names him as William Collins) when Francis Sutliff took the licence until his death a year later in1873. It was then transferred to his widow Eliza Ann, who wasn’t there long before Henry Murry took the reigns. Murry soon fell foul of the law for allowing gaming, his licence was objected to in September 1874, but he escaped with a caution – not long though before he passed the licence to William Tew the following April.
William Tew would be at the Brookside for almost 14 years until the licence was transferred to William Shilton in February 1888. Alfred Miles Woodford was licensee 1896. (He would recently have had a loan £100 from Thomas White Charity)
Thomas Cooper Co Brewers of Burton on Trent were the owners, they operated a few sites in Leicester, b
George Issett was licence holder in 1901, John William Burford 1902, Thomas Issett 1904, Ernest Blake 1907, Michael Horan 1909, Ernest Samuel Shilton 1910, and Harry Chapple 1912.
Brookside Cottage closed in 1913 when the licence was surrendered on March 12th in part exchange (the other part was from the White Bear Thornton Lane) for a new off licence in Hopefield Rd, to be run by James Thacker.
What became of the pub from there on in, it looks by the building it carried on as a shop.
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