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..and from the January 2003 edition

Last Months Meeting

The meeting on Wednesday 4 December 2002 at The Hillsborough Hotel was the annual Christmas pie and pea supper. Sadly, due to the death of Mrs. K. Plant (see members news below) 2 families of committee members could not be present, and on top of this several other members were absent for other reasons which made the attendance at 27 the lowest ever. The number had been as high as 32 but as events unfolded in the days before the event a regular e-mail contact with Brian Hendry was used to keep the figures as accurate as possible. D. H.***** dealt with most of the last minute organisation so that numbers were counted, payment for meals was made and a raffle could go ahead. For the evening Del and Brian had put on the first batch of their special Crown Brewery "Christmas Ale", a strong beer rated at 7.0% ABV along with a range of other beers made on the premises in the Crown Brewery, most with local names such as "Hillsborough pale ale", Loxley Gold" and "Stannington stout". There were also many other "guest beers" to choose from both bottled and draught from other real ale breweries. A Christmas present pack of 3 bottled beers from the Crown Brewery, Christmas Ale, Loxley Gold and Stannington stout was very popular at £6.50 and Del donated one as a raffle prize. The meal was served at about 8:45pm and due to the uncertainty about the numbers Del had made 2 large meat and potato pies, each cut into 16 generous portions and served with onion gravy and peas. 32 portions would have covered the higher number of bookings but in the event a few lucky people were able to get second helpings. There was no musical entertainment this year but most members enjoyed the evening just eating, drinking and talking with the raffle been an added extra for a bit of fun where prizes such as brandy, wine, beer, chocolates, biscuits and tins of metal polish were on offer, the prizes being donated by members in order to make a small amount of money for the society. Once again and for the third time in 2002 we thank Del Tilling and Brian Hendry for organising this event for us. We look forward to future meetings at The Hillsborough Hotel which is quickly becoming our second home and meeting place.

Note **** members name removed

Unfortunately, The hillsborough Hotel was not to become our regular meeting place.

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A third meeting, from the April 2003 newsletter

Last Months Meeting

For the meeting of the society on Wednesday 5 March 2003 we were at The Hillsborough Hotel. This was yet another chance to sample the fine real ales produced by Brian and Del at the Crown Brewery. Our member and chief brewer Brian Hendry had informed us that he had brewed a Porter on the 4th of January and that this would have sold out by the March meeting. Not only this but a special brew for Rotherham beer festival at Oakwood school in February, Mappin's SB with a strength of 4.5% ABV, had also sold out, such is the popularity of the Crown Brewery products. This left us with a choice of the usual HPA (Hillsborough pale ale), Loxley Gold and the award winning Stannington Stout to choose from. Brian also indicated that the beer is sent out to a number of beer festivals and public houses nation wide and that the return of empty casks is invariably accompanied by an order for a larger quantity of the same, to the extent that the Crown Brewery, actually housed in the cellar of the Hillsborough Hotel, is becoming too small and has limited production facilities to keep up with demand. Its nice to know that in the modern world one small traditional brewery is doing so well. Most of the 20 or so members present enjoyed the "noggin & natter" session and we were joined on this occasion, by invitation, by members of the Dungworth festival committee who had asked us for help in the running of their carnival the week before our rally in June (see Help Needed section below), we hope they enjoyed the beer as much as we did and that some of our members, especially those who live on the north side of town near Dungworth and who could not be present at this meeting, will be able to give their help at this local charity event. As usual the evening was enjoyed by all who attended this "ale & stagger" event, and most of them were left to literally stagger home!

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Our last meeting at the Hillsborough Hotel, from the October 2003 newsletter

Last Months Meeting

The meeting of the society on Wednesday 3 September 2003 at The Hillsborough Hotel was very poorly attended, we were unable to attend ourselves and know of a few others who were still on holiday but the attendance has been reported as 8 members including Brian Hendry who of course helps organise the evenings at the Hillsborough Hotel. This venue is not open to the public every evening of the week and Del Tilling very kindly opens the bar on Wednesday for us to have our meetings. For such a poor turn out it is hardly worth his while opening the extra evening. We started having meetings at Hillsborough at the request of members living at that side of Sheffield and at the kind invitation of Del and Brian. Unless we can guarantee a good turn out of members we will have to consider if and when we ask to use the Hillsborough Hotel again.

After this general lack of interest from members we did not meet at this venue again.

However, both the Hillsborough Hotel and the Crown microbrewery are still running and their beers are still there to be sampled.

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I've just been looking at the 1881 census returns and I spotted

15 Eldon Street, Eldon Brewery. Albert Lader

Anyone heard of the Eldon Street Brewery?

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Guest Jack Russell

Richdales on Bramhall Lane,slogan,"Richdales for Rich Ales"

I have an old pack of playing cards...on the back Richdales prize Ales

each ace has a different beer as follows

Ace of Spades..Bitter Beer

Ace of Clubs... Wellington Beer

Ace of Clubs...Nut Brown Ale

Ace of Diamonds... Brunswick Ale

Also says Britanna Brewery,Bramall Lane Sheffield

Cheers

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I have an old pack of playing cards...on the back Richdales prize Ales

each ace has a different beer as follows

Ace of Spades..Bitter Beer

Ace of Clubs... Wellington Beer

Ace of Clubs...Nut Brown Ale

Ace of Diamonds... Brunswick Ale

Also says Britanna Brewery,Bramall Lane Sheffield

Cheers

Hello JackRussell and welcome.

Sounds like a nice thing to have.

Any chance of a couple of photos.

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Guest Gramps

Browsing through the minutes of the Town Trustees a while ago I came across a couple of interesting items about Tennants brewery on Bridge street and how it came to be built there.

Around 1848 the Tennant brothers had been given notice to quit their Exchange Brewery premises which they leased from the Duke of Norfolk. The Duke had obtained powers to force them out but with compensation. The brothers demanded a sum of around £13,000 but were offered just £3,000 and the dispute went to law; in 1849 the law found for the Duke so the £3,000 was all they were going to get.

How then did they manage to set up business again in the grand buildings on Bridge street ?

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/zoom.pl?picture=http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/s09779.jpg

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/zoom.pl?picture=http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/s10485.jpg

It seems the Town Trustees came to their rescue.

1849 ...."a Report was received from the Trustees' Surveyor with regard to their property near Lady's Bridge. It seems that it was rather disreputable, as the houses there, being below the level of Bridge Street and subject to floods, constituted one of the worst districts in the town. [this was the area known as 'the Isle']. An application had been made by a Mr. Tennant, a brewer, to know if the Trustees would lease to him the site of this property for 99 years, he undertaking to erect new Buildings thereon according to a plan and elevation to be approved by them. This was ultimately agreed."

It seems they also got help from the Trustees to extend the brewery.

1853 "On 11th November a plan and elevation of the brewery in course of erection upon the land by Lady's Bridge were produced and approved by the Trustees, and it was decided that £2,000 be lent on mortgage of it."

And an interesting side note...

1858 "On 22nd December it was reported that Mr. Tennant was sinking a well and cutting drifts in the coal bed underneath his brewery to form a store for cold water."

Which shows how widespread is the coal under Sheffield.

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I have an old pack of playing cards...on the back Richdales prize Ales

each ace has a different beer as follows

Ace of Spades..Bitter Beer

Ace of Clubs... Wellington Beer

Ace of Clubs...Nut Brown Ale

Ace of Diamonds... Brunswick Ale

Also says Britanna Brewery,Bramall Lane Sheffield

Cheers

With a pack of cards like that you could play some of those silly "drinking games" where everyone ends up drunk. lol

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Guest Jack Russell

Hello JackRussell and welcome.

Sounds like a nice thing to have.

Any chance of a couple of photos.

Hope these are ok

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Do you have any informaton on 8 Cricket Inn Road? Any photos or information would be great, either recent or in the past.

National Archives

Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd SY/645/T3/7 23rd October 1908

Contents: Public house and dwelling known as "The Cricket Inn" situated at no. 317 Cricket Inn Road, Sheffield, in the occupation of Mrs. Annie Taylor; public house and dwelling known as "The Travellers Inn" situated at nos. 4, 5, 7 and 8 Cricket Inn Road, in the occupation of George Cormins; fifteen cottages and domestic offices in Cricket Inn Road, in occupation of Messrs. Wasnidge, Oates, Ledger and others

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This poses a question.

The Travelers Inn, 8 Cricket Inn Road is not on the pubs list.

Nearest possible match is this one:

Travellers' Rest

Cricket Road

Open 1871 Closed Span

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Earlier

1871 John Hicks (Beerhouse)

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This poses a question.

The Travelers Inn, 8 Cricket Inn Road is not on the pubs list.

Nearest possible match is this one:

Travellers' Rest

Cricket Road

Open 1871 Closed Span

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Earlier

1871 John Hicks (Beerhouse)

Durham Ox isn't far away - given our experience of changing Street numbers - 15 Cricket Inn Road.

Also Ball, Cricket Inn Road (1833)

Bay Tree, 23 Snow Hill, Cricket Inn Road

Cricket Inn, started at number 20, went on to become number 317

Wybourn Tavern, Cricket Inn Road ...

might be easier if we had a name and a year.

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Do you have any informaton on 8 Cricket Inn Road? Any photos or information would be great, either recent or in the past.

Public house and dwelling known as "The Cricket Inn" situated at no. 317 Cricket Inn Road, Sheffield, in the occupation of Mrs. Annie Taylor; public house and dwelling known as "The Travellers Inn" situated at nos. 4, 5, 7 and 8 Cricket Inn Road, in the occupation of George Cormins; fifteen cottages and domestic offices in Cricket Inn Road, in occupation of Messrs. Wasnidge, Oates, Ledger and others.

23rd October 1908, Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd.

SY/645/T3/7 - contacL Sheffield Archives.

Vox had it nailed !

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