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King William IV - Bradford Street Deritend [plan attached]
The King William IV was located on the south side of Bradford Street between Birchall Street and Lombard Street. The pub can be seen on this map extract dated 1886. The building was close to the Britannia Iron Foundry from which Isaac Marshall & Sons traded.
There was a maltings located behind the beer house. At the time of this plan it was operated by George James & Son who owned the Drovers' Arms further down the street at Smithfield. The Miles family were running the malthouse and kiln in the mid-1830's.
Originally known as the Royal William, this pub was named in honour of the third son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, William IV was also known as the Sailor King. Born in 1765, he married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen in 1818. He served in the navy from the age of 13 until he was 25. In the following year, 1791, he began his long liaison with the actress Dorothea Jordan by whom he eventually had ten illegitimate children. The two children he had with his wife Adelaide both died in infancy. He was succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
Coleshill-born Sarah Husband was a widow by the age of 32 when she was running the King William IV in 1861. A decade later the pub was kept by Richard and Maria Blackwell. Born in Peterborough around 1819, Richard Blackwell had previously worked as a butler in service to Henry William Wilson, 11th Lord Berners at Keythorpe Hall in Leicestershire and who held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of that county. Richard Blackwell had previously worked in a similar position at Oxton Hall in Nottinghamshire. After a spell running the King William IV he retired to a cottage in the Oxfordshire hamlet of North Leigh.
In 1881 Richard Blackwell was the publican. He was the son of a boatsman and born in Ansty around 1840. He moved to Birmingham at a young age and worked in a number of jobs before taking over the licence of the King William IV which he kept with his wife Elizabeth. At this time the building was owned by Edward Taylor.
An Aston ratebook documented the property as a retail beerhouse, brewhouse and premises. By the end of the century Nottingham-born John Loverseed was the publican. It was around this period that Holder's Brewery added the King William IV to their estate of tied houses. The King William IV closed in 1914.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk
King William IV - Bradford Street Deritend [plan attached]
The King William IV was located on the south side of Bradford Street between Birchall Street and Lombard Street. The pub can be seen on this map extract dated 1886. The building was close to the Britannia Iron Foundry from which Isaac Marshall & Sons traded.
There was a maltings located behind the beer house. At the time of this plan it was operated by George James & Son who owned the Drovers' Arms further down the street at Smithfield. The Miles family were running the malthouse and kiln in the mid-1830's.
Originally known as the Royal William, this pub was named in honour of the third son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, William IV was also known as the Sailor King. Born in 1765, he married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen in 1818. He served in the navy from the age of 13 until he was 25. In the following year, 1791, he began his long liaison with the actress Dorothea Jordan by whom he eventually had ten illegitimate children. The two children he had with his wife Adelaide both died in infancy. He was succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
Coleshill-born Sarah Husband was a widow by the age of 32 when she was running the King William IV in 1861. A decade later the pub was kept by Richard and Maria Blackwell. Born in Peterborough around 1819, Richard Blackwell had previously worked as a butler in service to Henry William Wilson, 11th Lord Berners at Keythorpe Hall in Leicestershire and who held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of that county. Richard Blackwell had previously worked in a similar position at Oxton Hall in Nottinghamshire. After a spell running the King William IV he retired to a cottage in the Oxfordshire hamlet of North Leigh.
In 1881 Richard Blackwell was the publican. He was the son of a boatsman and born in Ansty around 1840. He moved to Birmingham at a young age and worked in a number of jobs before taking over the licence of the King William IV which he kept with his wife Elizabeth. At this time the building was owned by Edward Taylor.
An Aston ratebook documented the property as a retail beerhouse, brewhouse and premises. By the end of the century Nottingham-born John Loverseed was the publican. It was around this period that Holder's Brewery added the King William IV to their estate of tied houses. The King William IV closed in 1914.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk
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