Pubs & Breweries
January 20, 2013

The White Hart, Market Place

Claims to be the oldest inn in the Isle of Axholme. The building is listed and is thought to date back to the 16th or 17th century, though was remodelled in the late 17th or early 18th century. Timbers exposed during building work in 1980 suggested that the present building incorporates 2 adjoining timber-framed houses. Listed Building Designation Full description SE 7612-7712 CROWLE HIGH STREET […]

Pubs & Breweries
January 20, 2013

Beer House Licenses

Ale Houses Act of 1551 Prior to 1828 Pubs were licensed under the Ale Houses Act of 1551; An Act for Keepers of Ale-houses to be bound by Recognisances. It was passed to control the “abuses and disorders as are had and used in common ale-houses”, and laid the foundation of modern licensing law. No-one was to be permitted to keep an ale-house without being […]

Newspapers
January 19, 2013

Crowle Advertiser

The Crowle Advertiser was set up as a weekly publication by Richard Wood in Crowle. The office was on the corner of the High Street and what is now known as Printing Office Lane. It was set up in 1871 Over time the title changed its name; Crowle Advertiser, and Tradesmen’s Weekly Circular – no 1 (2 Dec 1871) Crowle, Isle of Axholme, and Marshland Advertiser, and […]

Family History
January 14, 2013

James Lister Esq. of Hirst Priory – Obituary as published in Stamford Mercury, Friday 09 November 1866

James Lister, Esq., of Hirst Priory, Isle of Axholme, and Ousefleet Grange, Yorkshire, whose death we announced last week at the advanced age of 89, was the son of Geo. Stovin, Esq, of Tetley House, Lincolnshire, who took the surname and arms of Lister under the will of Thos. Lister, Esq , of Girsby House, Deceased married in 1800 Alice daughter of Robert Spofforth, Esq. […]

Breweries
January 13, 2013

Valuation of New Trent Brewery 1884

Hull History Centre C DBHT/5/612 The following documents relate to the valuation of the New Trent Brewery carried out in 1884;   [Click on image to see a full size view]    Sheet 1 – Particulars of houses and other properties of the firm and of Mr Robinson. Sheet 2 – Sundry particulars relating to the houses, the property of the firm or supplied by […]

Railway
January 2, 2013

South Yorkshire Railway

The penultimate extension to the South Yorkshire Railway to be completed before the lease to the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rly (MS&L) was taken in hand in 1858. This was the continuation of the Thorne line to Keadby, a distance of ten miles and, as in the case of the Thorne line, it was single track and constructed alongside the company’s Keadby Canal without an authorising act. […]

Family History
October 5, 2012

Peacocks of Crowle

BL: Saturday 14 January 1797 – Bankrupts – Cornelius Peacock and Benjamin Hitchins, of CHatham Place Monday 5th October 1812 [Salisbury and Winchester Journal] Yesterday on Queen-square, Aldersgate-street, Mr T Peacock, formerly of Chatham-place, a well known character in the metropolis. [Sheffield Independent] Sat 25 Jan 1840. On the 16th instant, at Crowle, Cornelius Peacock, Esq, of that place, in the 25th year of his […]