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Does anyone have any other information or ideally a photo of The Bacchus Public House on Holly Lane in Sheffield City Centre? (between the back of Sheffield City Hall and West Street)

As you can see by the auction poster the Jolly Bacchus Pub and outbuildings were auctioned off in 1870 and I wondered what Holly Lane would have looked like back then

The poster reads:

Valuable freehold premises in Holly Street and Holly Lane to be sold by auction, by Messrs W. H. and J. A. Eadon at their auction mart, St James’ Street, Sheffield, on Thursday, October 20, 1870 at four o’clock in the afternoon,

by order of the Devisees in Trust under the will of the elate Mr Joseph Bendelow, subject to the conditions of sale -

the public House with the yard and outbuildings thereto, known by the sign of The Jolly Bacchus. Situate in Holly Lane, Sheffield, in the occupation of Messrs Williams Greaves and Co., or their undertenants, as yearly tenants;

and eight messuages or tenements, with a warehouse and other buildings, two of the houses being used as retail shops, and fronting to and being Nos 34 and 38 in Holly Street, Sheffield, and in the respective occupations of Messrs Wood and Furguson, and the others being in the yard behind, and in the respective occupations of Messrs Fowler, Osborn, Underwood, and Large, and comprising the premises whereon the late Mr Joseph Bendelow carried on for many years the business of a plasterer and whitewasher.

The site of the whole of the premises, which extend from Holly Street to Holly Lane, contains 482 superficial square yards or thereabouts.

Further particulars may be obtained from the auctioneers; or from Messrs Brown and Son, solicitors, 1 St James Street, Sheffield.

J. M. Jubb, Printer, Prior Court, High Street, Sheffield.

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Entries from the 1862 Directory showing a Mr Joseph Bendelow living at Spring Terrace Ecclesfield. Seems Holly Lane was curtailed by 1879 to just four properties, more investigation needed.

ENTRIES FROM 1862 DIRECTORY

ECCLESFIELD, &c.
5 Bendelow Mr. Joseph, Spring terrace

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Holly Street.
5 Rowbotham Joseph, victualler., King William
11 Whittles Wm. and Son, surgical instrument manufacturers
13 Hudson T ., brass founder
15 Molloy Thos., clothes dlr
17 Holbrook Thos., shopkeeper
21 Mahony Josh., brush maker
23 Darley Ellen, shopkeeper
25 Marsden John, beerhouse
29 Harrison Thomas, victualler., Crown
31 Coulson, Jukes, & Co., · merchants
31 Barker and Co.; merchant
55 King George, beerhouse
57 Ashley Wm., shopkeeper
67 Marshall Thos., butcher
6 Chester Bros., horn merchants
10 Watson Henry., bone cutter
12 Furniss Arthur, Britannia metal ware manufacturers
18 Marples Thomas, victualler., Red Lion
26 Routh Mark, tailor
28 Briggs Wm., news agent
36 Underwood Henry Jas., engine turner
36 Foster Allen, chaser
38 Flanagan T., clothes broker
40 Wright Wm., plumber
40 Hancock J., silver plater
44 Merrill John & Co., horn merchants
54 Binney Samuel, anvil manufacturers
56 Boaler Thomas & Henry, spring makers
66 Darley Wm., beerhouse
68 Mackenzie William A., mattress maker
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1879
HOLLY LANE. {51 West street.)
7 Presland John, painter
 ...... West Street lane ... 
19 Taylor Joseph, beerhouse
45 ,Wild James, cart owner
DIVISION STREET
4 Staniforth & Re, slaters

HOLLY STREET. (23 Pinfold street.)
1 Broadhembury 'Thos. (j) carter
3 Hill Wm. & Son, scale pressers
5 Pendleton & Merrill, electroplaters. &c
Court 1
Bow street
13 Green George, picture frame maker
'15 Barker Wm. venetian blind manufacturers
17 Beardshaw Wm. C. engraver, &c
Yard
Court 3
21 Unwin James, greengrocer
23 Mahony Joshua& Sons, brush manufacturers
Courts 5 and 7
27 Crapper Samuel, shopkeeper
31 Vivian H.H.& Co. German. silver. manufacturers
Orchard lane
33 Holland Joseph, victualler
39 Barker & Co. steel converters and refiners
47 Andrews Edward, police constable
49 Merrin Joseph, police sergeant
Court 9-
2 Needham Chas. police constable
3 Thornhill Reuben, police constable
4 Horne Fredk. police constable
51 Olivent Thomas, police constable
53 Meggitt George, police constable
Balm green
55 Jackson Edward, beerhouse
57 Burley John (woodturner)
Court 11
67 Bancroft William M. lodgings
Barker's pool
6 Jennings Edward, table knife manufacturers,
Holly Street works
Boot Andrew, spring knife mfr. do
Mettam William, woodturner, do
Revill John, plate finisher, do
10 Winterbottom & Thompson, bone cutters
West street
18 Langworth Mrs Ann, victualler
26 Smith Edmund, newsagent
West Street lane
Marsden Chas. & Son, paper manufacturers 188 Rusby Henry, manager
36 Round Edwin & Son (lim.), electro 
38 Pearson & Co. printers, &c
 40 Longthorne William, provision dealer
40t Hancock James, electro plater, &c ( the number is 40 and a half)
 44-6 Merrill Jno. &Co. horn,  &c. manufacturers
 48 :Mills John, table knife manufacturers
 50 Ibbotson Robert, ivory merchant. do
50  Hurt Samuel. spring knife mfr. do
 50B Hulley George, steel fork mfr. do
 54: Harrison William, ivory carver
 54 Bright Joe & Co. cutlery manufacturers
 54 Crossland John, spring knife, &c. merchant
54 Morton Francis J. engraver Crowther Elias, scissors grinder
54 Leesley Thomas, ivory carver 
56 Kilner Bros. cutlery manufacturers electroplated ware, &c. manufacturers
62 Brooke T. -& J. ivory, &c. turners
62-4 Goodacre Thomas, electro-plated ware 'manufacturers
64 Stephenson Geo. spring knife manufacturers'
64 Hague Thomas, pen, &c. knife manufacturers
64 Snowden George, carver, &0
64 Brownhill Edward. table knife hafter
64-6 Wolstenholme Wm. B. scale cutter
68 McKenzie William, paperhanger
70 Terry Stephen, shopkeeper
Division street

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Seems the late Mr Bendelow may have known Mr Joseph Taylor because they both had similar addresses i.e.Spring Lane one lived in Ecclesfield and the other in Ecclesall. With them both having interests around Holly Street they most probably ran in to each other at time to time.

TAYLOR, Joseph (Qualifying property, House).
     Address: Spring Lane, Ecclesall in 1855.
     Recorded in: Sheffield Burgess Rolls.
TAYLOR, Joseph (Qualifying property, House).
     Address: Holly Lane, Sheffield in 1864-65.
     Recorded in: Sheffield Burgess Rolls.

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Mr Bendelow was trading as a plasterer etc as early as 1825 (working  from Green Lane).  He retired in March 1858, and his nephews John and Joseph Raper took over the business, continuing to trade from 36 Holly Street.  He retired to "The Hirst" at Wadsley Bridge (also called "Top Hirst" and "Hirst Spring Terrace" and "Spring-Terrace, the Hirst") with his wife Mary. In 1864 he suffered vandalism - on three occasions someone broke a couple of decoratives urns in his front garden. He died aged 72  on 7th November 1869, still owning the property at Holly Street - the pub, 2 shops, 6 houses, a warehouse and yard - total 482 square yards - hence the auction flyer.

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14 hours ago, Sheffield History said:

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Does anyone have any other information or ideally a photo of The Bacchus Public House on Holly Lane in Sheffield City Centre? (between the back of Sheffield City Hall and West Street)

As you can see by the auction poster the Jolly Bacchus Pub and outbuildings were auctioned off in 1870 and I wondered what Holly Lane would have looked like back then

The poster reads:

Valuable freehold premises in Holly Street and Holly Lane to be sold by auction, by Messrs W. H. and J. A. Eadon at their auction mart, St James’ Street, Sheffield, on Thursday, October 20, 1870 at four o’clock in the afternoon,

by order of the Devisees in Trust under the will of the elate Mr Joseph Bendelow, subject to the conditions of sale -

the public House with the yard and outbuildings thereto, known by the sign of The Jolly Bacchus. Situate in Holly Lane, Sheffield, in the occupation of Messrs Williams Greaves and Co., or their undertenants, as yearly tenants;

and eight messuages or tenements, with a warehouse and other buildings, two of the houses being used as retail shops, and fronting to and being Nos 34 and 38 in Holly Street, Sheffield, and in the respective occupations of Messrs Wood and Furguson, and the others being in the yard behind, and in the respective occupations of Messrs Fowler, Osborn, Underwood, and Large, and comprising the premises whereon the late Mr Joseph Bendelow carried on for many years the business of a plasterer and whitewasher.

The site of the whole of the premises, which extend from Holly Street to Holly Lane, contains 482 superficial square yards or thereabouts.

Further particulars may be obtained from the auctioneers; or from Messrs Brown and Son, solicitors, 1 St James Street, Sheffield.

J. M. Jubb, Printer, Prior Court, High Street, Sheffield.

It was a beerhouse (on licensed) at the time of the auction referenced and until it's demise. I can't say definitively what happened to the licence at present (it falls within ongoing research), but can suggest a probable chain of events.  The long term licensee left in 1880 and is known to have run other premises after that date. It is likely that he transfered out close to the time the property came up for let in the middle of the year, however, by September, when fixtures and fittings were advertised for sale, he was named as seller. The sale in itself doesn't necesarily indicate closure (indeed it could suggest transfer), however, the timing infers that the licence would have lapsed if the former landlord was at another premises by that time (which does seem probable). This wouldn't prevent a future grant to a prospective occupant, although the timeframe would be limited, but it would significantly increase the jeopardy for an incoming tenant at a time when reduction of licences was a popular aim in magistrates' circles.

I would hope to clarify the picture in the next few months. Whatever it's status at the end of 1880, the Jolly Bacchus was gone by the turn of the century and an odd little quirk in surviving documents (seemingly the consequence of a transcription error between two long lost documents) probably shifts that barrier back another 8 to 10 years.

I haven't investigated the building to date, but I think the chances of finding a photo of it in operation as a beerhouse are slim.

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On 19/01/2021 at 21:25, leksand said:

It was a beerhouse (on licensed) at the time of the auction referenced and until it's demise. I can't say definitively what happened to the licence at present (it falls within ongoing research), but can suggest a probable chain of events.  The long term licensee left in 1880 and is known to have run other premises after that date. It is likely that he transfered out close to the time the property came up for let in the middle of the year, however, by September, when fixtures and fittings were advertised for sale, he was named as seller. The sale in itself doesn't necesarily indicate closure (indeed it could suggest transfer), however, the timing infers that the licence would have lapsed if the former landlord was at another premises by that time (which does seem probable). This wouldn't prevent a future grant to a prospective occupant, although the timeframe would be limited, but it would significantly increase the jeopardy for an incoming tenant at a time when reduction of licences was a popular aim in magistrates' circles.

I would hope to clarify the picture in the next few months. Whatever it's status at the end of 1880, the Jolly Bacchus was gone by the turn of the century and an odd little quirk in surviving documents (seemingly the consequence of a transcription error between two long lost documents) probably shifts that barrier back another 8 to 10 years.

I haven't investigated the building to date, but I think the chances of finding a photo of it in operation as a beerhouse are slim.

A little update on the above. Although definitive evidence remains to be found the scenario outlined still appears the most likely chain of events. One element of speculation can be discounted however, namely the suggested transcription error between two documents. Investigation since the last post has significantly clarified the manner in which magistates' records would have been kept and a more likely cause for the quirk mentioned before has become evident. Moreover, it is, if correct, suggestive in some manner that the Jolly Bacchus did close in the era indicated above. Another beerhouse, that holds an ananomolous location in one surviving record (it is placed where you would expect to find the Jolly Bacchus recorded had it survived) seems to have been quite volatile and, it would appear, exhausted the space allocated for recording its details. Subsequently, the largely void record of the defunct Jolly Bacchus (probably containing details of only one licensee and owner) would have been reallocated for overflow purposes, thus unexpectedly preserving the 'slot' of the Jolly Bacchus in later records whilst leaving an alternative allocation (expected from process modelling to be active) as a ghost.

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I cant find any references to the Jolly Bacchus BUT here's the only list of residents on Holly Lane in 1879

7.  John Presland   Painter

19.  Joseph Taylor Beerhouse  (The Jolly Bacchus was at No 19 )

45.  James Wild Cart Owner

         1856

21. Ellen Grinold    Beerhouse  ( could this be the Jolly Bacchus? the number could have been changed later.)

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1 hour ago, tozzin said:

I cant find any references to the Jolly Bacchus BUT here's the only list of residents on Holly Lane in 1879

7.  John Presland   Painter

19.  Joseph Taylor Beerhouse  (The Jolly Bacchus was at No 19 )

45.  James Wild Cart Owner

         1856

21. Ellen Grinold    Beerhouse  ( could this be the Jolly Bacchus? the number could have been changed later.)

It appears as both #19 & 21. I haven't checked any 1856 listings but that should be it (although may have been named differently, if named, at that time). The numbering on Holly Lane does not appear to follow normal standards as the beerhouse seems to have been situated between Holly Ln & Carver Ln. It had a large yard, seemingly contained and the house itself possibly sat within the yard. There are quite stong indications that under Taylor it operated as something of an enclave, entirely under its own jurisdiction.

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Ive just been searching the 1787 Sheffield Directory and I cant find Holly Lane mentioned anywhere, not named ? just a general route? but what I did find on Burgess Street was a victualler by the name of Joseph Duckenfield, now could this chap be Claude Duckenfield's grandfather? Claude is better known as W.C. Fields, I know Claude's father and uncle were comb makers working in Back Lane and living in the Barkers Pool area before they emigrated to the U.S.A. Its only a thought on my part but Duckenfield is rare name in that area so surely Joseph Duckenfield IS a relative of W.C. Fields.

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1 hour ago, RichardS said:

I think his grandparents were George and Hannah, maybe an uncle?

No I don’t think it was his uncle, he would have been in to his late nineties when Claude was born in Darby.

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On 16/10/2021 at 13:52, tozzin said:

By 1901 the Lane was occupied with just different firms producing their goods, no private dwellings or pubs / beer houses.

Well, you may be correct but that is not information that you can draw from the 1901 directory (which I'd wager is your source). Heads of household for purely residential properties were not generally listed at that time - instances were growing but it remained far from the norm. Also, substantial numbers of on-licensed beerhouses did not receive a listing as such in directories whilst for a large proportion of off-licensed beerhouses you will not find any indication that they were beer retailers at all.

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I still think the area of Holly Lane had lost residential homes by 1901 and had turned into a cutlery and engineering area. But going on your idea of not all heads of households were not generally listed , now if that was true, why is every other household in the 1901 directory has a head of house listed? Holly Lane was less than 75 yards long so it’s probable that ALL residential properties had been utilised for production.

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19 hours ago, tozzin said:

I still think the area of Holly Lane had lost residential homes by 1901 and had turned into a cutlery and engineering area. But going on your idea of not all heads of households were not generally listed , now if that was true, why is every other household in the 1901 directory has a head of house listed? Holly Lane was less than 75 yards long so it’s probable that ALL residential properties had been utilised for production.

With regard to Holly Lane, I might have been inclined to think similarly. However, it would appear from FMP that six properties had some form of occupation on census night 1901.

The head of house of "every other houshold" is most certainly not listed in the 1901 directory - how many court listings do you see in there? Suburban journeymen were not as significant an element of the population as you might believe.

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1 hour ago, tozzin said:

Could the public house on this insurance  map marked with an “X” be what was the Jolly Bacchus?.

 

 

 

No, that is the Manchester Arms/Hotel

C.1890

circa 1890.jpg

 

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