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Does anyone have any memories of this place - or does anyone drink in there today?
Cock Inn - Bartley Green [pic attached]
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Located in Jiggins Lane, the Cock Inn was formerly part of a farm. The licensee in the mid-19th century was Benjamin Smith. Formerly a clerk in an iron works, the Derbyshire-born publican was also a farmer and collector of taxes. He kept the Cock Inn with his wife Ann Maria. The couple had a large family and employed Dudley-born Mary Hughes as a general servant.
John Gabb was the licensee of the Cock Inn by 1880. He spent his formative years living close to the Red Lion Inn at Grosmont in Monmouthshire. Recorded as a farmer in the 1881 census, he kept the Cock Inn with his Bridgnorth-born wife Ann. The couple later moved to the Bristol Road where John Gabb worked as a car proprietor.
Thomas Greenway was documented as a public house manager so may have been the first to be employed by Cheshire's brewery who added the pub to their tied estate. This explains how the Cock Inn became a Mitchell's and Butler's house. The company was acquired by the Cape Hill brewery in 1913.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk
Cock Inn - Bartley Green [pic attached]
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Located in Jiggins Lane, the Cock Inn was formerly part of a farm. The licensee in the mid-19th century was Benjamin Smith. Formerly a clerk in an iron works, the Derbyshire-born publican was also a farmer and collector of taxes. He kept the Cock Inn with his wife Ann Maria. The couple had a large family and employed Dudley-born Mary Hughes as a general servant.
John Gabb was the licensee of the Cock Inn by 1880. He spent his formative years living close to the Red Lion Inn at Grosmont in Monmouthshire. Recorded as a farmer in the 1881 census, he kept the Cock Inn with his Bridgnorth-born wife Ann. The couple later moved to the Bristol Road where John Gabb worked as a car proprietor.
Thomas Greenway was documented as a public house manager so may have been the first to be employed by Cheshire's brewery who added the pub to their tied estate. This explains how the Cock Inn became a Mitchell's and Butler's house. The company was acquired by the Cape Hill brewery in 1913.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk