1836 -1837, no address given, but maybe a short lived beer house. Thomas Lewin was landlord and doesn’t appear in the Jolly Anglers list of landlords, so likely a separate premises.
On 11 November 1837, after repeated complaints had been made of the Jolly Miller, licensee Thomas Lewin was charged with running a disorderly house and harbouring disorderly company – at midnight forty girls and boys were in the Jolly Miller with a fiddle.
Lewin was charged with suffering them to drink ale. Lewin’s defence was that his beer was so good that once they were in the beer house he couldn’t get them out, which caused much mirth in the court.
Lewin also claimed he didn’t quite understand the licensing laws and suggested that instead of fining him he would give up his licence from this moment and cease trading. This the magistrates agreed to, so the charge was not pressed.
Later that month Lewin was caught still trading from his Jolly Miller beer house, having failed to keep his promise. He then attempted to persuade the magistrates to postpone the agreement for a few more weeks. This didn’t wash with the bench, Lewin was duly fined.
No other record exists of Thomas Lewin or the Jolly Miller in Wharf Street.
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