Toll Keepers

[RichardB]

Kind of Buy One Get One Free (all free, as usual)

Abraham ADAMS toll keeper Crooks Baine's 1822

John BAMFORTH Toll collector Pitsmoor Bar White's 1852

William CASS Toll Collector Nether Heeley White's 1852

William GIBSON Toll Collector Wadsley Road White's 1852

James HEPWORTH Toll Collector Hunter's Bar White's 1852

William MELLOR Toll Collector Darnall White's 1852

George PINDER Toll Collector Lydgate, Crosspool White's 1852

Thomas TILLOTSON Toll collector Broadfield Bar White's 1852

Thomas TILLOTSON Toll Collector Abbey Dale White's 1852

Joseph WILSON Toll collector Fulwood Bar, Broomhill White's 1852

Thomas WILSON Toll Collector Nether Heeley White's 1852

Joshua YEWDALL Toll Collector Owlerton Bar White's 1852

Henry WHITE Toll keeper 20 Gleadless Road, Gleadless Kelly's 1925

Bonus :

John ROADHOUSE Collector of tolls, Castle Folds Market & Sheaf Market 579 Intake Road Kelly's 1893

Robert SMALLEY Toll collector to the Duke of Norfolk Effingham Road Kelly's 1893

[Bayleaf]

The collection of pieces from the Clarion Ramblers Handbooks has some nice stories about toll keepers. There's a story I like about two men in a carriage and pair who ran through the bar at Owler Bar without paying. Unfortunately the keeper's son was there, who also happened to be a runner with the harriers, and he followed the carriage all the way to a livery yard in Eldon Street and arrived just as the horses were being removed from the shafts! He must have been fit! The end of the story was the men were prosecuted, and the man from whom they'd hired the carriage also made them pay because they'd hired the carriage to go to Gridneford and back and in fact had been to Monsal Dale!