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New Inn - Quinton [pic attached]
This pub was in the heart of Quinton village. It was just around the corner of the High Street in Ridgacre Lane just to the south of the church.
I went to see if the building was still standing and a local resident assured me that the building opposite The Green was indeed the old New Inn. However, after studying this photograph close up I can confirm that the surviving building is the cottage next door to the New Inn - you can just see it to the left in this photograph dating from the late Edwardian period. By this time the New Inn was operated by the Smethwick-based Cheshire's brewery. The company's ales and stout are advertised on the building.
An early reference to the New Inn is in the 1841 census when nail forger Thomas Andrews was recorded as the publican. He lived here with his wife Ann and two daughters named Elizabeth and Sarah. The cordwainer James Male was living next to the New Inn.
Thomas Andrews was one of many nail forger's in the locality of Lower Quinton. Indeed, it would seem that most men at Ridgacre and World's End worked in this occupation if they were not employed in the fields as agricultural labourers.
The New Inn incorporated a shop in the mid-19th century when the house was kept by William and Sarah Yates. The couple were helped by their daughter-in-law Fanny Smith who worked at the New Inn as a barmaid.
The son of Benjamin and Catherine Yates, William was born in the locality and had earlier worked as an agricultural labourer though his son John worked as a traditional Quinton nail forger. Succeeding his father, he eventually took over the licence of the New Inn which he kept with his wife Harriet. The couple had kept the Old Crown Inn at Moor Street throughout the 1870's before moving to the New Inn. They left their daughter Hannah in charge of the Old Crown Inn.
By the early 1890's the New Inn had passed to the next generation of the Yates family. John and Harriet's son John became the publican and kept the pub with his wife Emma. John was also recorded as a carpenter. When the New Inn eventually closed the licence was transferred to the King's Highway which opened in 1940.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk
This pub was in the heart of Quinton village. It was just around the corner of the High Street in Ridgacre Lane just to the south of the church.
I went to see if the building was still standing and a local resident assured me that the building opposite The Green was indeed the old New Inn. However, after studying this photograph close up I can confirm that the surviving building is the cottage next door to the New Inn - you can just see it to the left in this photograph dating from the late Edwardian period. By this time the New Inn was operated by the Smethwick-based Cheshire's brewery. The company's ales and stout are advertised on the building.
An early reference to the New Inn is in the 1841 census when nail forger Thomas Andrews was recorded as the publican. He lived here with his wife Ann and two daughters named Elizabeth and Sarah. The cordwainer James Male was living next to the New Inn.
Thomas Andrews was one of many nail forger's in the locality of Lower Quinton. Indeed, it would seem that most men at Ridgacre and World's End worked in this occupation if they were not employed in the fields as agricultural labourers.
The New Inn incorporated a shop in the mid-19th century when the house was kept by William and Sarah Yates. The couple were helped by their daughter-in-law Fanny Smith who worked at the New Inn as a barmaid.
The son of Benjamin and Catherine Yates, William was born in the locality and had earlier worked as an agricultural labourer though his son John worked as a traditional Quinton nail forger. Succeeding his father, he eventually took over the licence of the New Inn which he kept with his wife Harriet. The couple had kept the Old Crown Inn at Moor Street throughout the 1870's before moving to the New Inn. They left their daughter Hannah in charge of the Old Crown Inn.
By the early 1890's the New Inn had passed to the next generation of the Yates family. John and Harriet's son John became the publican and kept the pub with his wife Emma. John was also recorded as a carpenter. When the New Inn eventually closed the licence was transferred to the King's Highway which opened in 1940.
Cheers
Kieron www.midlandspubs.co.uk
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