Old Pubs and Beer houses in Hastings

[logicus]

try here
http://deadpubs.co.uk/SussexPubs/Hastings/index.shtml

[terry_again]

Thanks, but the generic address 'Fishmarket' seems to cover the area from immediately east of the Cutter to all the way to the Royal Standard. There were many pubs and beer houses listed in the Fishmarket, including some really obscure ones like the Baker's Arms and the Original Good Woman. The Free Trader seems to have been one of the better known boozers, but nobody seems to know exactly where it was or if any part of it remains. It isn't helped by the local authorities changing road names and renumbering. By the 1900s all that was left of Commercial Road was a small length between the High Street and the sea front, but it had clearly stretched further at one time. Even the old maps at the library are rather vague.

[tony_crittenden]

Anyone else remember the steam driven brewery wagon that delivered to the Hare and Hounds in Ore?
It was quite an event to sit on the high step outside the Pub ( usually with Henry Brown from Providence Row) to watch the hot embers falling onto the road. Ore village was a quieter place in those days!

[terry_again]

Patrick, I've found a reference to the Old Woman's Tap, but not as a gin house or any other sort of boozer. It was apparently a wooded valley, part of which later became the Subscription Gardens. This would place it in about the right area I suppose. There is a suggestion that part of the area was used to construct the grand St Leonards Hotel. Could the St Leonards Hotel have later become the Royal Vic, or perhaps one of the other hotels in that area?

Steam wagons Tony? That must have been a while back. I have a vague memory of a beer deliveries by a tiny three wheeled Scammell Scarab with a barrel on the cab roof towing a trailer, but I can't recall which pub it was at. Steam wagons were well before my time.