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Scarsdale  Brewery  and  Pubs 

I have so much information about the Scarsdale Brewery & Vaults that I thought a thread for itself was appropriate. 

This is No. 6 of the pubs of St. Marys Gate Area thread. 

There was a brewery on Spa Lane & buildings of 40 & 42 St. Mary's Gate before the Scarsdale Brewery Co. I'm starting from the first half of the 1800's in my blog. 
Edward Mugliston owned the house, vaults, brewery & land on the 1840 map.

                                             Nos. 822, 804, 803 & 802   >













                          Below are 1878 & 1918 maps
The information I have connects the vaults to the brewery as one 'estate'. 

The Vaults were at No. 40 St. Mary's Gate, whilst the house next to it, at No. 42 St. Mary's Gate, was used, (at different times or the same time), as a private home, a hotel, & offices - which were connected to the vaults &/or brewery on Spa Lane. 
                         No. 40 & 42 St. Mary's Gate.                 The Spa Lane Brewery looking up Spa Lane.    
                    The Brewery is in the background. 

                                                                                                               &, below, Nos. 40 & 42 in 2016
      Nos. 40 & 42 St. Mary's Gate are still there.  


                         The Red asterix is where they are..... 
                         ..... & the Yellow asterix is where the 
                                                                brewery was. 



This is a copy of a diary extract which tells of some owners of 40 & 42 St. Mary's Gate. 
The immediate previous owners, to the Mugliston family, of No. 42 St. Mary's Gate was the Astley family. They had it from 7th May 1814 until it was sold to George Mugliston.  

The Reverand Thomas Astley bought it for £1,300; & when he died he left it to his wife Pheobe; & when she died it went to her children Phoebe & Richard (Rev.) Astley. 

  

Below is the advert for  the house, No. 42, for sale in 1829. It gives lots of details of what the house & property entailed. 

George Mugliston bought the house & land for £900  on 30 April 1833.  




I cannot find a reference to any 'vaults' or brewery etc. in the Indenture.  


The earliest mention of a brewery on Spa Lane,  that I've found, was in 1844 when Edward Mugliston – one of George's sons – was called the owner. 


  


             1849 map showing Edward Mugliston's premises.
George Mugliston ran the business until he died on Wednesday 31st January 1844: He'd fallen down the stairs at the Miner's Arms, Brampton the previous Friday, but had perked up by Tuesday: Unfortunately between 5 - 6 p.m. on Wednesday he died, aged 60yrs.  

An inquest was held down the road at the Anchor Inn. The business then went to his sons Edward & Robert.  

Edward & Robert Mugliston ran the Vaults until they died - Edward died on 18th January 1851 aged 36 yrs.; & his brother Robert died 21st Nov. 1852 aged 35 yrs. Both died intestate with the heir being the son of Edward, George Marr Mugliston. 
The admistration, &  guardianship  of George,  as  he was              Above is the plan left with the bank for a mortgage.
only about  13yrs  old, was finally worked out on the  11th                                          (see below, left)
March 1853.  

George Mugliston had taken out a mortgage on the property on 7th May 1834 with the Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Banking Company, for £500. He left titles deeds & a plan (above right) of the property with the bank. 


As the loan hadn't been paid by 11th April 1853 the property went up for sale. It was sold to John & Frederick Dunnell, brothers of Marylebone, London, Middlesex, for the price of £1,840.  

 

The Derbyshire Courier, 4th June 1853 says the transfer of the licence from the administrator of Robert Mugliston, Mr. W. Graham, to Messrs. Dunnell had taken place. 


The Vaults was re-built in 1854  & named 'Dunnell's Vaults' after brothers John & Frederick Dunnell. The Dunnells deposited the deeds in the bank for a  loan of £1,930 on the 21st November 1854. Unfortunately they couldn't  pay the loan back by 26th February 1857 so they gave the deeds up & Robert Dobbing was commissioned to sell the property. They'd gone bankrupt, but had the support of their father, John Dunnell, Gent.

The Estate was sold to Joseph Eyre, Gent. &  James Ball White, Merchant, on 20th July 1857 for £2,500. 

The sum of £1,867 10s. 8d. went to the bank to pay off the remaining debt including the interest; & £632 17s. 4d. went to Robert Dobbing as comission for the sale.
It was still known as 'Dunnell's vaults in 1858; the license wasn't transferred from the Dunnells to James Ball White until August 1858.
James Ball White & Joseph Eyre didn't sign over the estate the Estate until 1866, although a deal to sell had been agreed to, with the total price of £4,125, in February 1865. 

On 20th February 1865 Joseph Eyre died at Penmore House, Hasland; before he died, he & James B. White, agreed to sell the Estate to the people who were going to set up a new company: The Scarsdale Brewery Comany Ltd. was set up on 10th June 1865.  
  
Ann Eyre, daughter of Joseph, was heir & executrix of Joseph's will, along with James Joseph McSwiney. Joseph Eyre's share should've been £1,927 16s. 8d., but they wanted early payment of the money, before the conclusion of sale; so they forfeited £200, & received £1,727 16s. 8d. on 10th November 1865. 

The sale was concluded on 5th February 1866, James Ball White receiving £2, 057 3s. 4d.   

James B. White was in partnership with John Bunting as a Wine & Spirit Merchant, until John Bunting's death; then he began his own business of J.B. White & Sons. He was also one time proprietor of the Derbyshire Courier, an Alderman & a Mayor of Chesterfield. 

                                                                                 42 St. Mary's Gate.
William Green ran the Hotel & Vaults from 1867 to 22 November 1875, when he died, his effects were under £3,000.  

The license was transferred from the Scarsdale Brewery Co. to William Green, commercial traveler from Manchester. [Sheffield Independent Monday, 22.4.1867].  

In October 1874 the licence was for 6 days – the vaults being closed on Sundays to all but the lodgers in the Hotel. 

1876 brought a dizzy few months for the hotel & vaults, upon the death of William Green, as the Scarsdale Brewery couldn't agree to terms with the Executors of William Green. I don't know what the arguments were on either side.
Something dodgy went on...... 

From what I can gather the Scarsdale Brewery Co. caused the Bank of Chesterfield & North Derbyshire problems because of a fraud actioned by Edward Holland.  

Edward Holland held a controlling position in both businesses. He was chief clerk & later went into management of the Bank; & was also an influential director of the Brewery. The amount of loans to the brewery & debts owed by the brewery, to the bank, were 'massaged' in the brewery's favour, & hidden from other people working in the bank, until years later when they were found. Court cases – which went on for years - were then brought by the bank to obtain monies owed by the Brewery.  

The problem was that the amount of monies owed was in dispute. When the other directors of the bank decided the brewery was to get no more advances or monetary aid, Edward Holland went to a London bank to organise money for the brewery & the paper trail was hidden from the rest of the directors of the bank in Chesterfield. After Edward Holland was dismissed from the bank, officials were finding £7,000 to £8,000 worth of fictitious entries, some of which monies – if not all – went to the Scarsdale Brewery Co. 
On 12th August 1878 the Scarsdale Brewery Co. went bankrupt; & on 19th September 1878 the Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Bank went into voluntary liquidation. According to the Derbyshire Times, 24th July 1880, it was Court-ordered that the bank held first mortgage on the Scarsdale Hotel, Vaults & Brewery. 

From 1876 to 1880 Robert Farnsworth took over the Hotel & Vaults. Unfortunately he had no 'start-up' money so had to borrow heavily. He didn't get the trade & profits he thought he would so ran into financial trouble, trying to pay the loans & interest on the loans. He filed a petition of liquidation on 7th July 1880. His liabilities were £3,222 9s. 6d. & assetts were £2,047 11s. 7d. 
During the court cases lots of figures were thrown around as to the amount of monies owed by the brewery; but, generally, the brewery owned up to around the £15,000 mark. 

Court cases were brought by the liquidators of the bank against the liquidators of the brewery. Before the bank & brewery went into liquidation the amount the brewery owed was said to be £28,175 3s. 9d. Edward Holland, in charge of the accounts, said the debt was £15, 494. So it was the lesser sum that was collected. Later, after both businesses went into liquidation, the bank found out what the original debt was, so went to court for the other £12,000. They were told that they would have to give back the money they had already been adjudged & re-apply for the whole amount. They were given 4 weeks to do it. Taking all things into consideration the liquidator of the bank, Mr. Tansley Witt, decided against more action. The bank would receive some more money owed & it still had the mortgage of the brewery for £12,000.   

By the end of February 1882 the actions of the creditors & shareholders of Robert Farnsworth were finished, & the Hotel & Vaults were given to the Bank's liquidator: The Hotel wasn't let because they couldn't find an appropriate tenant, but the Vaults was still ongoing in order to preserve the license. The bank's liquidator had put a manager in the Vaults & - according to his report in February 1883 – the Vaults had been run at a profit until 19th September 1882. At that time there was only £5 cash profit but £100 worth in stock. 

On the 30th June 1885  the liquidator was ordered to accept a bid of  £7,000  for the Scarsdale freehold - the vaults, hotel & brewery - if there were no other offers. Three men bid for the freehold & the highest bid came on the 28th July 1885 by Charles Armstrong for £9,100. The purchase was completed on 28th September 1885. 


Charles didn't own the freehold for long before he sold it. He was a 'common' brewer who was born in Little Paxton Hants. He came to Chesterfield from Battle in Sussex, in the 1880's, bought the freehold, sold it, then went to settle in Cambridge by 1891. On the 1901 census he was managing director of a brewery.

20th February 1889 Charles Armstrong sold it to Francis Stephenson for £8,000. 

Francis was a brewer born c1837 in Goodmanhan, Beverley, Yks. His early history was a chemist & druggist before being a Maltster & Brewer, employing 6 men, in Beverley, Yks., on the 1881 census. 
Francis & his wife & family settled in Chesterfield, where he died on 25th October 1927, on Gladstone Rd. Effects £80,437 5s. 11d. His eldest daughter, Margaret, had married William Bradbury Robinson junior, (whose father was the senior partner in Robinson & Son), on 15th October 1890. His son, Francis Danby Stephenson, was in the brewing business but after his father sold the Scarsdale Company became a cigar & tobacco manufacturer.  

Francis snr. ran the Scarsdale Brewery Company & built it up with public houses, land, shops & cottages, until 18 April 1895 when he sold it to Thomas Isaac Birkin, a lace manufacturer, of Ruddington Grange, Ntts. It remained in the Birkin family until 1958. 

Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, [the Baronacy being started in 1905], was born in 1831 Basford & died 16th January 1922 in Notts. Effects £2,144,804 4s. 3d. 


He'd been a wealthy lace manufacturer & 4 x Mayor of Nottingham as well as one time owner of the Scarsdale Brewery Co., & businessman. 
Thomas I. Birkin continued to build the Scarsdale Company with his 5th son Philip Austin Birkin as manager. Philip was born c1871 Basford Notts., & had been a chemical student. The Birkin family was a military one with most males joining up as officers. 

                                        On the 24.1.1919 Thomas sold the Brewery & properties to his son Philip for £64,727 17s. 4d. 

A few beer mats.

No. 40 St. Mary's Gate: The Vaults. 


Sheffield Independent Tuesday 8th March 1927          Summary 


By the decision of the Chesterfield Licensing Justices yesterday, Ches-terfield is to have a new hotel, to cost £9,000, in the rapidly growing area in the Newbold district. 


Application was made for the removal of the license of the Scarsdale Vaults, St. Mary's Gate, to proposed new premises to be called the Highfield Hotel, to be erected at the junction of Hawksley avenue & Newbold road. 


Mr. Norman Winning (instructed by Mr. J. L. Middleton) represented the Scarsdale Brewery Company; & Mr. A. J. Cash opposed on behalf of various temperance & religious organisations.  


Mr. Winning submitted that there was a reasonable demand for the proposed new hotel.  


The average annual trade done at the Vaults was 200 barrels, 70 gallons of spirits & 222 dozen bottles. The Brewery had so few houses that they could not offer up any other house or they would have.
The Vaults closed 1928 & a permanent license transferred to Highfield Hotel Wednesday 30 May 1928. 

The Highfield Hotel was sold to the Whitbread Brewery in 1958 as part of the deal. In 1959 the Home Brewery of Nottingham took over. 

The Scarsdale Brewery was on the [provisional] list of buildings which could be used as an air raid shelter for the public:  Scarsdale Brewery No 1 Basement  71 Day & night. 
            Scarsdale Brewery No 2 Basement 150 Day & night.   (Derbyshire Times 15.9.1939.) 
These are a few other public houses that the Scarsdale Brewery Company had but were closed / sold before the Whitbread take over in 1958. 

[Not a conclusive list from the beginning of the Scarsdale Brewery Company formation in 1865 ]
Plough  Inn   St. Mary's Gate, Chesterfield Closed 1906          see 'Pubs: St. Mary's Gate Area'

  

County  Hotel   Occupation Road, Newbold Moor, Chesterfield. [later a working men's club]. 

                              The Red asterix * 
It was called the County Hotel in 1873 when it applied for - & was denied – a spirit license: It had previously been called the Horse & Jockey Inn. It had 4 rooms downstairs, a club room & 3 bedrooms; a there was also stabling for 4 horses. It had been used for a Miner's Sick Club & meetings for an Oddfellows Lodge. In February 1868 it exhibited an enormous stuffed pig which had previously been exhibited in Chesterfield's Market Place: Remember – no tv !  

The Nottingham Evening Post of 27th March 1913 posted the news that the County had lost it's licence & compensation of £1,145 was given. One of the reasons was that the Devonshire beerhouse was just 3 houses away. 

It was conveyed to John Boden 6th November 1946. 

On the 1918 map it was called a club & it was gone by the 1960's. A newspaper excerpt said the County had been a beer house, a working men's club then a private residence. 
Prospect  Inn   2 Prospect Street, Stonegravels, Chesterfield.   The Red asterix *

It was an ante 1869 beerhouse that was closed for compensation of £1,347 in 1914. It was later sold to Hannah Dickens 12th April 1919 for £175; when it had a yearly income of  £15 12s. from the tenant. 


Hannah Dickens was a property owner & landlord who went to court many times because of the awful state of her properties, 'slum landlord' comes to mind.  

[She also had property at one time or another on Brunswick Street, Whittington Moor, St. Mary's Gate, Chesterfield, Chatsworth Road & Old Hall Road, Brampton, besides other places.] 


Prospect Street, Stonegravels was demolished. The people who lived on the street held a street party in September 1959  when the first letters arrived for the residents to leave to go to accomodation elsewhere.  


According to the Council there were 53 houses. I counted odd numbered houses 1-71 (36 houses) & even number houses 2-34 (17 houses).  


The Prospect Inn at 2 Prospect Street had 7 rooms; other houses had 2-4 rooms [1911 Census]. 


It had been acquired by Francis Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 7th October 1893. 
Pheasant  Inn   8 Elder Yard, Chesterfield
I don't know where the pub was specifically but the map shows where Elder Yard was before it was demolished & widened; & the picture shows an entrance to Elder Yard, also before it was altered. 

The Inn was referred in February 1917 without any arguments against from anyone; & it closed on January 6th 1919.
It was sold to Mr. Collis, along with 2 Blake's Yard, Saltergate, 12th April 1919 for £405. 
According to reports, “The building was damp throughout and generally dark. The business accommodation on the ground floor consisted of a bar 7ft. by 12ft. 6Ins., and 9ft. high, which was also used a cellar, and contained one beer barrel.  
There was no fire place in the snug, it was badly lighted and known to customers as the dark room. There was no accommodation for keeping food in the living room except a cupboard. There were three bedrooms, all of which were damp, and the rain came through the roof, barrels being placed on the floor to catch the water. The trade was about half a barrel per week.” 
Star  &  Garter   New Square, Chesterfield Closed 1937 & licence given to the Walton Hotel. 
The license was taken from the Star & Garter, New Square, Chesterfield in 1937. In 1935 a deal was done between the brewery & the Corporation in which the brewery sold the Star & Garter to the Corporation at a reduced price if an application to build a new house, with a license, on a new estate were granted [The Walton]. The Council had wanted to clear the Star & Garter & 3 houses for street improvement purposes. The cost of building the new hotel by the brewery would be £4,500 & would cover 2,800 square yards; which included lawns & gardens for the customer's use.  

The Cannon Brewery also offered plans for a new house for the district, in competition to Scarsdale Brewery, but after consideration Scarsdale Brewery application was granted.  

The Star & Garter Inn, Yard, Stabling & 5 houses had been bought by the Scarsdale Brewery in April 1926, for £4,500. The tenancy of Messrs. Gilmour & Co. Ltd. having been expired on the 25th March 1926.  

Major Philip Austin Birkin died 12th June 1951 leaving £339,819 13s. 11d. His son Geoffrey Ivor Birkin [Major] 1911 – 1987 carried on the Scarsdale Brewery Co. business, with his 2 sisters, until was sold. 
The  Whitbread  Takeover      The Scarsdale Common Seal, Whitbread Common Seal & Whitbread Logo
The deal was for 38 Freeholds, including the Scarsdale Brewery, & 2 Leaseholds; with Geoffrey Ivor Birkin Retaining 6 properties. 
Scarsdale received on completion of sale approximately £385,000. 
It was to be paid in cash &/or debenture stock of Whitbread & Company Ltd. 
Sale has to be complete 25th March 1958. 

                A deposit to Wells & Hind for £35,600 was paid.
As a part of the deal Whitbread could not amalgamate with any local brewery company; or have any local brewery hold a share in the Scarsdale brewery business without the specific agreement or consent of Geoffrey Ivor Birkin; he had been disappointed with his dealings with the Mansfield brewery in the past so wanted control over any dealings with local breweries. 

Geoffrey I. Birkin would sell the 6 properties he retained to Whitbread when he retired; & until then would retail Whitbread products. He would give up the name of the 'Scarsdale Brewery Co.' & would do business under 'Scarcliffe Trading Co.'
Freehold Properties named in the sale  (without giving reservations, exceptions etc.) 
The plans shown of the premises are the ones used in the takeover 25.3.1958. 
FREEHOLD  SOLD  (1) 

Brittannia  Inn   Ward Street, New Tupton, North Wingfield, Near Chesterfield, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                 Taken over by Home Brewery, Nottingham, from Whitbread, in 1959. 

FREEHOLD SOLD (2) 

Brunswick  Hotel   387 Sheffield Road, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Dbys. Licence: Beer 
                                        Area of 359 sq. yds. Half way across Shaw Street. Now called Derby Tup. 
                                        It was acquired by Thomas Issac Birkin for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 23rd Sept. 1896. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (3) 

Coach  &  Horses   Dronfield, & land, garage & football field adjoining; formerly part of Summer Wood Top Farm.                                             Licence: Full
FREEHOLD SOLD (4) 

George  &  Dragon   High Street, Clay Cross, North Wingfield, Dbys. Licence: Full 
FREEHOLD SOLD (5) 

Highfield  Hotel   Newbold, Chesterfield. Licence: Full 
                                   The Scarsdale Vaults, 40 St. Mary's Gate, were closed in 1928 & a permanent license transferred                                      to the Highfield Hotel Wednesday 30 May 1928. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (6) 

New  Inn   Netherthorpe, near Staveley, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                     It had been pulled down before 2008 & the site built on. It had been delisted on 28th August 1974. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (7) 

Navigation  Inn &  Land   Killamarsh, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                                     From what I can make out there have been 3 'Navigation Inn's. The oldest one, seen                                                         on the earlier plan next to the canal, along with the following 'Navigation' built close by                                                       on a different site; & when that 'Navigation' burned down, a new one was built on the                                                         same site around the early 1930's. That one has since closed down & 'Zook' is there                                                           now. 
The previous Navigation Inn [2nd one] was acquired by Francis Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 13th October 1889; & was described as “Butcher's shop, cottage, land & hereditaments.”
This old plan dated 13.10.1899 
shows the first Navigation Inn > 
near the canal. 

FREEHOLD SOLD (8) 

Peacock  Inn   Brampton, Chesterfield. Licence: Full 
FREEHOLD SOLD (9) 

Star Inn    57 South Street, New Whittington, Dbys. Licence: Beer 
                     Closed for compensation on 15.9.1959, & is now a house – it's been completely renovated.                       
I don't know if there were any renovations or alterations after 6th February 1939 & before it closed, but it was described by police Inspector Harris at a licensing session, on Monday 6th February 1939, as an ante 1869 beerhouse, which was an "old structure" & "ill adapted for modern use", “It was formerly two old cottages and the two original stairways remained. To get from the bedrooms to the bathroom, the residents had to go down one set of stairs, through the public part of the premises and up the other stairs. 
The business was carried on in a bar at the back of the premises, in a small room used by the licensee and his wife as their living room, which was cut off from the bar by a drawn curtain.  
The rooms were small for licensed rooms and not well lighted. 
The central passage was narrow and very dark. The licensee had no supervision of the licensed rooms from the bar. An old coach house & stable in the yard was used as a wash-house...... The sales averaged one and a half barrels to two barrels a week...... South Street led from the main road to the railway, and at one time was used a great deal by workmen going to work on the old Paddy mail. In those days the licensed premises in South Street were well patronised.” The men caught buses on the High Street so Inspector Harris thought the Star wasn't necessary. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (10) 

Three  Horse  Shoes     320 Chatsworth Road, Brampton, Westward, Chesterfield, & Blacksmith shop at the rear.                                                  Licence: Beer. It closed down & is now The Tap House, Barlow Brewery. It was acquired                                                    by Thomas Issac Birkin for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 29th December 1899.                                                                Beerhouse & Blacksmith's shop.
FREEHOLD SOLD (11) 

Traveller's Rest & two cottages adjoining   Apperknowle, Unstone, Dbys. Licence: Beer 
                                         The Traveller's Rest was on the corner of the High Street & Moortop Road; & was also known                                           as the 'Corner Pin' & formerly the 'Reference Point', before going back to 'Traveller's Rest'. 
                                         It was acquired by Francis Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 25th July 1891 
FREEHOLD SOLD (12) 

Midland  Hotel  Station Road, Hepthorne Lane, North Wingfield, Dbys., & No. 49 Station Road adjoining. 
                                Licence: Full.  Now called The Shinnon.  An earlier plan dated  3rd November 1909  stated area 3                                    was 545 sq. yds.; area 1 was 86 sq. yds., & area 2 was 108 sq. yds.  
                                It was acquired by Thomas Issac Birkin  for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on  3rd November 1909;  &                                  taken over by Home Brewery, Nottingham, from Whitbread in 1959. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (13) 

Golden  Ball & land adjoining   Renishaw, Eckington, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                                 At some point it was re-built. It is now closed, & is now 'Mulan', a chinese restaurant. I do                                                   not know who owns the land behind. 
                                                 It was acquired by the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 24th June 1897.
FREEHOLD SOLD (14) 

Walton Hotel & houses 61 & 63 adjoining   St. Augustine's Road, Chesterfield, adjoining. Licence: Full 
                                   License taken from the Star & Garter, New Square, Chesterfield in 1937. In 1935 a deal was done                                     between  the  brewery & the  Corporation in which the brewery sold the  Star & Garter  to the Cor-                                     poration  at a reduced price if an application to build a  new house, with a license, on a new estate                                     were  granted. The Council had wanted to clear the  Star & Garter &  3 houses for street improve-                                     ment purposes.  
The cost of building the new hotel by the brewery would be £4,500 & would cover 2,800 square yards; which included lawns & gardens for the customer's use. The Cannon Brewery also offered plans for a new house for the district, in competition to Scarsdale Brewery, but after consideration Scarsdale Brewery application was granted. It was taken over by Home Brewery, Nottingham, from Whitbread, in 1959
It's now been demolished.
FREEHOLD SOLD (15) 

West  End  Hotel    Westthorpe, Killamarsh, Dbys. & land. Licence: Beer & Wine 
                                       It was acquired by Thomas Issac Birkin for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 25th March 1902. 

FREEHOLD SOLD (16) 

Anvil   corner of Blacksmith's Lane & Freydon Way, Calow, near Chesterfield, Dbys. Licence: Full 
              Closed & re-opened as the Blacksmith's Arms. It was taken over by Home Brewery, Nottingham, from                              Whitbread, in 1959. 


FREEHOLD SOLD (17) 

Victoria Hotel   Model Village, Shirebrook, Dbys.                                         Licence: Full 
                               It was taken over by Home Brewery,                                   Nottingham in 1959.


FREEHOLD SOLD (18) 

Off-Licence 44 Eldon Street    Clay Cross, Dbys. Licence: Beer. Now a house. 
                                                             It was acquired by Francis Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 
                                                             5th June 1893.
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Off-licence  22  New  Street   Hepthorne Lane, North Wingfield Licence: Beer 

              No. 20 New Street     adjoining.  
                                                           Now re-modelled houses. They were acquired by Thomas Isaac Birkin for the                                                                     Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 5th October 1895.
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Off-licence 22 High Street   Lower Pilsley, Dbys. Licence: Beer 
                                                        It was acquired by the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 5th October 1895 

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Off-licence 64 Jessop Street   Codnor, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                                              Now a house. It was acquired by Thomas Isaac Birkin for the Scarsdale Brewery                                                                Co. on 28th July 1898.
FREEHOLD SOLD (22) 

Off-licence 60 Barlborough Road,   Clowne, Dbys. Licence: Beer


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Off-licence  483  Sheffield  Road   Newbold Moor, Chesterfield, Dbys. Licence: Beer         (ie Whitt. Moor)
                                                                      Demolished  for road widening in 1980's.  It was acquired by  Francis                                                                                  Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 22nd December 1894. 

FREEHOLD SOLD (24) 

Off-licence  34  Market  Street   Staveley, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                                                Demolished. No 36 is still there; no. 34 is approx. where the yellow asterix is. It                                                                  was  acquired by Thomas Isaac Birkin  for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on  29th                                                                 September 1900. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (25) 

81  High  Street   South Normanton, Dbys. Licence: Full 

82  High  Street  adjoining. 81 is now a dentist & 82 a tattoo shop [2016] 
FREEHOLD SOLD (26) 

Scarsdale  Brewery  Spa Lane, Chesterfield, Dbys. 
                                           Sold to Chesterfield Corporation 1959. Demolished.

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Albert  Social  Club   (formerly the Albert Inn)  98/100 Sheffield Road, Stonegravels, Chesterfield. 
                                            Albert Street & the Club are now gone. 
                                            It was acquired by Francis Stephenson for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 22nd Dec. 1892.
According to a licensing session in June 1937, where the license was refused, the Inn was on its death-bed. 
The Albert Inn was an ante 1869 beer house made up of 2 old dwellings knocked together. The main business part of the Inn was in the front; & was 2 rooms knocked together to make 1 room, the measurement becoming 19 ft. 9 inches x 28 ft 6 inches; with the 2 back to back fireplaces & chimney breast, of the 2 dwellings still in place.  
There was a small parlour or snug which was described as being too small for a public house. The bar was poorly lighted & the business was said to be hard to supervise. 
The place was in poor repair & there were patches in the bedroom & club room to cover dampness; the flat roof over the terracota extension was 'defective' & let in water. 
The front facade seems to have been the best part, being described as having ornate decoration: The facade had been erected 25 years previously. 
The Scarsdale Brewery claimed that trade had gone down due to the previous licensees not taking care of the Inn & keeping a dirty house. The licensees blamed undesirable people who visited the house. Under a new landlord trade had gone up. The Brewery also claimed that they had been considering re-building the house since 1936. 
In October 1937 Compensation of £1,600 had been offered; but it was below what was wanted so it went to the Inland Revenue Commission. 
It had been registered as a club in 1938/1939.
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Land  Mill Lane, Wingerworth, Dbys. (formerly part of Cottage Hill Farm) 

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Apple Tree  Inn   Stanfree near Bolsover, Dbys., & land. Formerly copyhold of the Manor of Bolsover. Licence: Full  
The new Apple Tree Inn was built 1907-1908, with a full license granted in December 1908. The 'old' Inn & property was up for sale in June 1911, described as, a “Dwelling house, formerly known as Apple Tree Inn, with Cottage adjoining, Stable, Carriage-House, Wash-House, Pigcotes, Gardens and Orchards, the whole containing 1a. 1r. 16p. or thereabouts”. [No. 13 on plan] 

In 1911 it had been used as a working men's club, [the previous club, which had been situate nearby, had been struck off the register, & then had burned down], until 8th May 1911, when the police were again not happy with the way it was run so it was struck off the register.  

No. 14 on plan was an area of 1 acre & 2 roods. No. 20 on plan was 3 acre 2 roods & 4 perches.

FREEHOLD SOLD (30) 

The  Blue  Boar  Hotel   West Bar, Sheffield, Yks. Licence: Full 
                                                 Dates from c1770 – late 1950's/early 1960's. Now Court buildings stand on the site. 
                                                 It was acquired by Thomas Isaac Birkin for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. 11th April 1895.
FREEHOLD SOLD (31) 

The  Bath  Hotel  New Whittington, Dbys. Licence: Beer 
                                    Demolished, now a car park. 
FREEHOLD SOLD (32) 

Malt  Shovel   Alton,  Dbys., & closes of land adjoining. Licence: None 
                            Closed 1957. Converted to a cottage.

FREEHOLD SOLD (33) 

The  Rising  Sun   78 High Street, New Whittington, Dbys. Licence: Beer

FREEHOLD SOLD (34) 

Rose  &  Crown   Church Street, Eyam, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                    Converted to a B & B “Crown Cottage” 

FREEHOLD SOLD (35) 

Rose  &  Crown   388 Sheffield Road, Newbold, Dbys. Licence: Full 
                                    Its name was changed September 2016 to 'Spireite'. 

FREEHOLD SOLD (36) 

Royal  Oak   Summerley, Unstone, Dbys. Licence: Beer

FREEHOLD SOLD (37) 

White  Lion   West Street, East Retford, Ntts. Licence: Beer 
                           It was acquired by the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 26th March 1900.

FREEHOLD SOLD (38) 

Nos. 37, 39, 41 & 43 Bank Street   Brampton, Chesterfield. 



Leasehold properties named in the sale (without giving reservations, exceptions etc.) 
The plans shown of the premises are the ones used in the takeover 25.3.1958. 
LEASEHOLD (1)  

78 & 80 Meadow Street  (formerly known as The Alhambra).    Licence: None [700 years from 25th March 1827] 

82 Meadow Street   Sheffield, Yks.  

100 Hoyle Street    Sheffield Yks. 

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Vale  Hotel  Warsop Vale near Mansfield, Ntts. Licence: Full [99 years minus 7 days – from 1st November 1900] 
                        Taken over by Home Brewery, Nottingham, from Whitbread, in 1959. 
Premises Retained by the Birkin family. 6 properties; to be carried on as the Scarcliffe Trading Co.*
                                                                                                                                                                       c/o J. Hirst] 


RETAINED (1) 

Corner  House   Chesterfield. Aka Manhattan, Miner's Arms, Union Inn, now a Thai restaurant. Licence: Full 
                                 The Miner's Arms & George Gascoyne's newsagents were demolished to re-build the Miner's Arms                                    in 1923. 
                                  It was re-named the Corner House Hotel; & later became the Manhatten & then a Thai restaurant.
On the left hand side facing gable, on Saltergate, are the initials 'SB' for Scarsdale Brewery; in the middle, on the corner is an 'M' & 'A' combined for Miner's Arms; & on the right hand facing gable, on Glumangate, is '1923' for the year it was built.

RETAINED (2) 

Young  Vanish   Glapwell & land & outbuildings adjoining. Licence: Full 
                                 Now a carvery. 
RETAINED (3) 

King's  Head  Clay Cross. Beer House 
                            The King's Head was renamed the Canon then Charlies Bar. It's had a lot of work done to it over the                                years & extensions made to make extra rooms on the ground & first floor.     
                            It was acquired by the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 13th June 1896. 
RETAINED (4) 

Prince  of  Wales   Brimington & the adjoining land formerly the site of 38 Manor Road 1 & 3 Cotterill Road. Beer                                            House. It's said to have been opened in the 1860's & closed down 2007. It's now demolished &                                          there are houses on the site. Also known as Brimington Tavern & the Warren. 

                                                                                                                                The photo below is c/o Patrick Hancock

Above, The red asterix shows where the pub was.


On the left a photo c/o Alan Heardman.

RETAINED (5) 

Queen's  Hotel   Hollis Lane, Chesterfield. Beer House 

18 & 20  Hollis Lane     The cottages were bought to improve the living accommodation of the Landlord. 
                                               Acquired by Francis Stephen son for the Scarsdale Brewery Co. on 29th Sept. 1890. 

                                                 The Queens Head is the building where the vehicle is.

RETAINED (6) 

Royal  Oak   South Normanton, Dbys. (Water Lane) Beer House 




Scarsdale Brewery on Spa Lane was supposed to stay open after the takeover but it closed in 1959; & was later sold to the Chesterfield Corporation. It was demolished. 

42 St. Mary's Gate is now a Grade II listed building & after renovations is used as offices again.
From  around  1900 to 1906  the offices – or a part of them were used by F. Moss, money lender. 
The vaults [40 St. Mary's Gate] has since been 
used for various shops over the years.


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