Volunteer Inn
This pub was located at 55[a] Middle Street, opening before 1870, with the lease being put up for auction during 1881[1]. Post-closure around 1948, it was a tobacco and confectioners warehouse in 1957 [2]. Most of the road was demolished for re-development during the early 1970s and is now covered by Priory Meadow.
Window Fall
On the 10th of September 1898, an seventeen month old girl who was staying with her parents at the inn, fell from a second floor window onto the pavement below, hitting and bending the iron support bar of a lamp post on her way down. Other than a few bruises, she miraculously showed no other injuries.[3]
Landlords
<1870: William Piper[4]
>1870: James Burr [4]
1871: Thomas Carey[5]
1873: John Kirby[6]
1881: John Hollebone[7]
1884: Charles Bragg[8]
1889-1891: Mr William Dunk[9]
(illegible text): Edward Booth
1914 ?[10]< 1933: F.E. Beale (snr)
> 1933: F.E. Beale (jnr)
1949: Edward Booth[11]
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References & Notes
- ↑ Although the numbering appears to have changed for a number years, either due to recording error or renumbering
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 02 February 1884 pg. 4 Notice of sale of Leasehold
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 04 May 1957 pg. 7
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 17 September 1898 pg. 6
- ↑ a b Hastings & St Leonards Observer 19 March 1870 pg. 3
- ↑ Census 1871
- ↑ British Newspaper Archive Hastings & St. Leonards Observer 13 December 1873 Pg. 0001
- ↑ Census return 1881
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 26 January 1884 pg. 5 Insolvency notice
- ↑ Census return 1891
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 28 March 1914 pg. 10 Obituary of son
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 15 January 1949 pg. 5
