Cock, 48 Jordan Well
These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
1800 | 1802 | RING OF BELLS | |
1802 | 1868 | COCK | |
1868 | 1870 | VAMPIRE, VAMPIRE MUSEUM INN | |
This was an ancient sign in use since the fourteenth century. It was often an indication that in the past cock fighting took place in the yard. In the seventeenth century the sign may also have advertised the sale of cock ale, which was 'ale mixed with the jelly of minced meat of a boiled cock, besides other ingredients'.
In 1756 two soldiers were billeted here. It appears that c1860 a replacement COCK was built.
By 1871 the premises was occupied by a currier and leather seller. In the 1891 census the premises are given as No.48 and occupied by Thomas Barton, Wine Porter. His daughter, Eliza L. Barton aged 16 is shown as a British Wine Shop Keeper. Could this be the fate of the COCK? | |||
LICENSEES:1828 - 1831 Joseph Glaze (declared insolvent June 1831) 1831 - 1832 Thomas Glaze (younger brother of Joseph, declared insolvent Apr 1832) 1835 Jonathan Bray 1837 John Wallis 1838 Thomas Southam (Southern?) (died 13th Dec 1838) 1839 Edmund Sweatnam (license not transferred from Thomas Southam until April 1839) 1841 - 1842 William Johnson (moved to the Green Dragon, Much Park Street) 1842 William Cave (Jan) 1842 Charles Randle 1842 Henry Shaw (Jul) 1843 - 1858 George Yardley (moved here from Holbrooks Tavern, Lockhurst Lane, then on to the Turks Head) 1858 - 1859 John Blount 1859 - 1860 Henry Beaumont 1860 - 1861 Thomas Stanton 1861 Mary Pears 1861 Thomas George Johnson junior (from the Tiger Liquor Vaults, Earl Street) | |||
Street plan of 1851 | |||