The following email from Claire Hufnagel was received by us recently. I do hope someone can help her.
Over to Claire...
I wonder if you could please help me.
I was given this information (see below) about The
Bridge Inn as it could refer to either Samuel Smith my gggrandfather
who died in 1854, and who appears in the previous censuses as a beer
seller in Hoviley Brow, Hoviley Lane & Hoviley Bridge, or his son
Samuel Smith who figues in the 1861 Census and his widow
Martha Ann Smith (née Turner) in 1881 as running a pub at 14 Cheapside. No name
of the place appears at 14 Cheapside in 1861, 1871 or 1881.
But in the 1891 and 1901 Censuses, with different owners,
this address, 14 Cheapside, has the name "Hatters Arms".
In 1911, it is still a pub but no name.
Do you know anything about this change of names.
Do you know if The Bridge Inn and the Hatters Arms are the same
place?
"The Bridge
Inn, 14 Cheapside, Godley. Owners: *Walker and Homfrays, was Watson, Woodhead and
Wagstaffe. The Bridge Inn was a beerhouse near the bottom of Cheapside, so named
because of its proximity to the bridge crossing Hoviley Brook." (There was once
a ford at this point known as Hoviley Ford.)
"The Bridge
Inn was established around 1856 by Samuel Smith and in 1916 the
renewal of the licence was refused because there were too many licenced houses
in the area; within two hundred yards there were two fully licenced and two off
licences. The owners of the Bridge Inn, Watson, Woodhead and Wagstaffe, a
Salford brewery, stated in their defence that over the past five years they had
spent over £22 pounds on alterations, and the landlord, Frederick Scott,
protested that he had just purchased three dozen
new beer glasses."
Information taken from "A History of the Pubs of Hyde and District" , by Paul Taylor
* Walker & Homfrays of Salford was registered as a brewery in 1896
(though appears to have been in existence earlier than that) and was
bought out by Wilsons of Newton Heath in 1949. In 1929 Walker &
Homfrays themselves had bought up the Creeses Brewery in Hyde.
3 comments:
Hi Claire
According to my information the Bridge Inn was always called that, although old directories etc which I got most of my information were sometimes wrong. The earliest date I have for the Inn was around 1856/7, but could be earlier. The landlord at the time was Samuel Smith (son later) who were at the Inn until around 1876/7 when possibly his wife took over.
The only record I have for an "Hatters Arms" is an old name for the Werneth Hotel in Gee Cross, the address at the time being Acorn Lane.
As stated in the post the Bridge Inn closed around 1917.
It may not be significant,but in the
1940,s there was a shop on Cheapside ,just higher up than Creese,s brewery and on the same side ,run "I think" by Tom Smith.We used to buy "pop" there
yes in the 1940- 1950 Tom's shop was just higher up than the old creese's brewery site which then became Barlova. Tom sold all basic grocery items (typical corner shop) and directly opposite was Nellie's, a lovely dear old lady who sold sweets and all the things that kids loved.
Both were great people and tolerated us cheeky kids with our light fingers with patience beyond belief.
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