~ Pubs ~
The Bricklayers Arms.
The Bricklayers Arms, 13, The Straits.
N.B. There was also another pub called the Bricklayers Arms in Kent Street.
Built pre-1850, the pub was located in Straits Road, near to the junction with what was to become Masefield Road, Gordon's Place.
The pub was de-licensed before 1930 when the last landlady died
The pub disappeared sometime in the 1930s?
At Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, April 1907, an appeal was heard in which Elizabeth Hickman, the licensee and Lord Dudley the owner, appealed against a decision of the Bilston Magistrates not to renew the license of the house. The ground of the objection to renew was that the building was structurally unsuitable for the purpose of a public house. The appeal was dimissed.
Licensees:
1851, Josiah Hickman. [Staffordshire Gazette]
1871, Josiah Hickman. [Census]
1874, Enoch Hickman. [newspaper]
1880, Josiah Hickman. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1881, Enoch Hickman, age 54, occupation carpenter. [Census]
1891, Enoch Hickman, publican age 64, wife Elizabeth. [Census]
1896, E. Hickman. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1901-1907, Elizabeth Hickman, widow, age 73. [Census, NP]
1920s, Betsie Hickman.
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