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Orange Branch public house, Hollis Croft


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Plan of premises situate between Hollis Croft and White Croft agreed to be purchased of Anne and Elizabeth Harrison by Isaac Newton. 1829. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03624&pos=205&action=zoom&id=99147

Includes reference to a public house on Hollis Croft.

 

Shows a property belonging to John Harrison with Amelia Crooks next right. (Property which is referred to as a Public House in plan of 1829.) 

Plan of Hollis Croft, White Croft and parts of Brocco Street, Edward Street and Solly Street, 1787 - 1789

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04146&pos=11&action=zoom&id=103992

 

Identified coloured purple included as part of property No. 30 of Jonathan Beardshaw. (identified below the "OFT" of White Croft) note the passage to the right, as on the property from Harrison to Newton 1829. 

Plan of the property in Sheffield belonging to the Trustees of Hollis' Hospital let on building leases, 1854 (copied 1859)

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09970&pos=5&action=zoom&id=65489

 

Referring to the footprint of the property, Isaac Newton mentioned and a search of Sheffield History A-Z Public House Listing it's probable it is the "Orange Branch"

 

Orange Branch, 28 Hollis Croft
Open. 1818   Closed.  Span
Comments "The Olive Branch" in 1822 at 58 Hollis Croft
 

1821(Pigots) Joseph Allen

1821-22 Joseph Allen
1825 Joseph Allen [58 Hollis Croft]
1828-29 Rawson Allen

1830 Isaac Newton
1833-34 Isaac Newton
1837 Isaac Newton (57 Hollis Croft)
1839 Isaac Newton [28 Hollis Croft]
1841 Isaac Newton
1845-46 Joseph Allen
1849 Joseph Allen
1851-52 Joseph Allen
1854 Joseph Allen
1856 Mrs Allen [28 Hollis Croft]
1859 Sarah Allen
1862 to 1864 James Newton
1865 John Emery
1868 John Emery
1871 John Emery (Beerhouse)
1881 Edward Tuohy (?) 

 

A map with it identified would be helpful as would a photograph or any other information to confirm... Census, parish records, obituary etc. 

 

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The 1851 map shows the Orange Branch with a similar footprint to the 1829 plan above.

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The Orange Branch Benevolent Sick Society was established in 1819 and by 1824 had 82 members, £87 1s 5d in assets and was still being held at the house of Mr Allen on Hollis Croft.

In October 1905 a hearing was held (under the new 1904 Licensing Act) to agree compensation for the removal of beer-on licences, including that of the Orange Branch. Its beer-off licence had already been withdrawn the previous May. The owners were Thomas Rawson and Co., the tenant was Mary Ann Watson. Sums of £1,200 for the brewers and £110 for the tenant were claimed, however the justices said it "was not at all a desirable house" and the compensation was eventually agreed at £650 for the brewery and £100 for the tenant. In the following January the fixtures and fittings were auctioned off.

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Thanks Edmund. 

Compensation for "a not at all desirable house."! 

 

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