Ponytail Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Royal Oak public house, No. 29 King Street. y01678 King Street from Haymarket, premises on right include Norfolk Hotel, No. 29 Royal Oak public house, No. 27 Newham and Co., chemist. t00994 Not named on this plan of 1807, this is possibly the premises of the Royal Oak. Thomas Pierson’s premises, King Street [1807] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03633&pos=98&action=zoom&id=99174 Endorsed, Piersons' land. Royal Oak is at the bottom of this map the next property marked to the Wharncliffe Hotel. Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.8.12.1890. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00081&pos=82&action=zoom&id=152389 Unfortunately the frontage onto King Street is on the next sheet: 294.8.17. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00083&pos=1&action=zoom&id=153314 West Riding of the County of York: City and County Borough of Sheffield: Plan of Proposed New Street - Waingate to Blonk Street and Furnival Road; Widening of Exchange Street; Alteration of Banks of River Sheaf; and Acquisition of Lands for Markets. 1901. Royal Oak, King Street marked. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10037&pos=1&action=zoom&id=66173 Architects' drawings of Sheffield buildings.. Alterations to Royal Oak King Street 1921. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4e537686-23f7-48d7-bcec-ee4b39bf3110 The Royal Oak was destroyed during Bombing Raid WWII. The Bombing of Sheffield.. 12th December 1940 by Chris Hobbs. https://www.chrishobbs.com/localpubs1940.htm Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses. Royal Oak, 29 King Street & 15 Watson Walk, Market Place. Open 1774. Closed 1940. Span 166. Comments Bombed. Earlier. 1816-17 William Taylor 1818 (Pigots) William Taylor [King-St] 1849 John Fellows 1851 Sarah Fellows (census) 1852 Sarah Fellows [ 29 King Street ] 1854 Henry Watson 1856 Edmund Darwent / George Ward 1859 William Wilson 1861 to 1865 William Wilson (24 King Street) 1868 William Wilson 1871 William Wilson 1876 Henry Cusworth 1879 George Mottram 1881 William Mosforth 1883 Tom Darley 1888 Tom Darley 1889 Mrs Darley 1890 Isaac Borebank 1893 Isaac Borebank 1895-6 Bernard Appleby 1998 Bernard Appleby 1900 Bernard Appleby 1901 Mrs T Appleby 1902-03 George Dransfield 1905 George Dransfield 1907 George Dransfield 1910-11 George Dransfield 1912-13 James Brailsford 1916 James Brailsford 1922 to 1924 Robert Plackett 1925 Albert Heath 1929 Edward Harris 1931 to 1933 Edward Harris 1936 Edward Harris 1937 to 1939 George Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 The landlord of the Royal Oak, Thomas Smith was constable in 1818. The King Street Debtors Gaol was next door to the Royal Oak and Smith was head gaoler. Information from: Sheffield Public Houses, Michael Liversidge. 728.5 SQ. Pudding Lane was renamed King Street. Was the Royal Oak previously called the Norfolk Arms? A plan of the jail, Godfrey Foxs' tenement called the Norfolk’s Arms, and Joseph Hawksleys' tenements with the conveniences to each, held of the Duke of Norfolk. 1792. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03632&pos=414&action=zoom&id=99173 Tenement called the Norfolk Arms and Joseph Hawksley's Tenements with the Conveniences to each situate in Kings Street and held of the Duke of Norfolk. 1793. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03424&pos=412&action=zoom&id=98689 Site plan; numerical list with tenants and measurements. Property on the north side of King Street. (King Street, Debtor's Jail). Tenements in King Street held of the Duke of Norfolk by Joseph Hawksley, [1790] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03631&pos=413&action=zoom&id=99172 Extract from articles and letters from The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3, edited by Robert Eadon Leader 1875. "Reminiscences of Sheffield, it's, Streets and it's People." Pages 89-91 Johnson: In the lower part of King Street, where is now Mr. Hunt's flour shop, was formerly the father of Mr. John Jones, before he removed into the premises still occupied by his son in the Market Place. Leonard: I remember the Square just above there, now represented by Garside and Shaw's timber yard and Castle Court, where fruit and fish dealers congregated. It was called "The Green Market," and was disused after December, 1851. Everard: Ah, that market was formed on the site of the old debtors' gaol, taken down in 1818. A curious place, indeed, according to our notions. It was a stone building, not very large, the gaoler being Godfrey Fox. People were incarcerated there for ridiculously small debts, and often for alehouse scores. The prisoners used to work at their trades, and you might hear cutlers and file-cutters hammering away as if they had been in their shops. Friends brought the work and took it back again, and also supplied the prisoners with food. Leonard: The debtors then made themselves tolerably comfortable? Everard: Oh, dear yes. It was a ***** kind of imprisonment. The gaol was often thronged with visitors until nine o'clock. There was a prisoner in each room, above and below, who solicited the passers-by to "remember the poor prisoners." The one above had a tin box suspended by a string; and the other, in the lower room, with his hand through the window, held a similar box. Twiss: In 1791, at the same time that Broomhall was attacked, the mob destroyed the doors and windows of the gaol and the house of Godfrey Fox, and liberated the prisoners. It was the prison for the liberty of Hallamshire, and the property of the Duke of Norfolk. Everard: There were two classes of prisoners, the fees in what was called the "High Court" being 25s.; in the "Low Court," only 6d. There was, in addition, "garnish," 2s. 6d. for the High Court, and Is. 2d. for the Low, with which coals, candles and soap were bought for the common benefit of the prisoners. Nield, in his "Remarks on the Prisons of Yorkshire," describes his visits to the place in 1802. There was, he reported, no chaplain, nor any religious attention paid to the prisoners. Mr. Moorhouse, the surgeon to the overseers of the poor, attended to the sick. The High Court prisoners had a room about five yards square, which had two windows looking into the street. Up-stairs there were four rooms, two for men to sleep in, and one for women, the fourth being used as a workshop. The keeper furnished beds at 10d. per week, two sleeping in a bed. The Low Court prisoners, or those detained for debts under 40s. (three months' imprisonment being held to release them from their debt and costs), had two rooms, about five yards by four, with a fire-place, and iron-grated windows looking into the court. In these they worked and slept, which made them "filthy beyond description." Four rooms had lately been added at the top of the house, one of which was used for the women at night. Twiss: When Howard, the prison philanthropist, visited the place sometime before, it would seem that these upper rooms were not in existence, for he reported that there were only two rooms, which were also used as night rooms for debtors of both sexes. Leonard: Nield adds that the Low Court prisoners found their own straw and firing. The courtyard had a damp earthen floor, and was about ten yards by six. Both sexes associated together in it; and at his visit on Sunday, the 15th August, 1802, the Low Court prisoners were busy sifting cinders in it, the ashes of which they sold for three shillings a load. Everard: After Godfrey Fox, Thomas Smith, constable, was gaoler, and at the same time kept the "Royal Oak," which was next to the gaol. On the gaol being pulled down, he and the prisoners removed to the premises in Scotland Street, formerly a merchant's warehouse, with the house adjoining as his residence. Mr. Joseph Kirk succeeded him. Wragg: Thirty years ago, in one of the little market shops that then stood on the site of the old gaol, was Mrs. Horsfield, the mother of two Unitarian ministers, the Rev. T. W. Horsfield, the historian of Lewes, and the Rev. Frederick Horsfield. Debtor's Prisons. https://institutionalhistory.com/debtors-prisons/ The Law in Sheffield: From Sheffield Castle to West Bar. Aug 2021. https://sheffielder.net/2021/08/01/the-law-in-sheffield-from-sheffield-castle-to-west-bar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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