These premises have been known by different names during their history:
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TO
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NURSERY GARDENS
The first real building on the land around the Chapelfields area was Chapelfields House with a nursery garden at the beginning of the 19th century. The nursery garden was called Weare's Nursery and lay on Thomas White's Charity Land. Thomas Weare, a nurseryman and seedsman, had a shop in Broadgate and it is because of him that the Nursery Tavern got its name.
In 1845 an Act of parliament empowered the trustees of the charity to lay out roads and sell plots by public auction for development. The license for the 'Nursery Gardens' was granted to George Hands on 27th August 1852. The name soon became the Nursery Tavern.
In the 1970s the Nursery was known as 'Kelly's' after the family that had run it for many years. When Tony Kelly retired, Manns took the opportunity to double the size of the pub by extending into the next door house.
LICENSEES:
1852 George Hands
1861 James Palmer
1863 Benjamin Archer
1868 Alfred Sutherland
1871 - 1874 Thomas J. Oates watchmaker finisher
1881 - 1886 J. Miles
1890 - 1893 Hannah Trueman
1894 - 1896 H. Shufflebotham
1903 - 1922 John Shufflebotham
1924 - 1929 W. A. Clews
1931 - 1940 T. J. Kelly
c1979 Tony Kelly
1983 T. O'Loughlin
The first real building on the land around the Chapelfields area was Chapelfields House with a nursery garden at the beginning of the 19th century. The nursery garden was called Weare's Nursery and lay on Thomas White's Charity Land. Thomas Weare, a nurseryman and seedsman, had a shop in Broadgate and it is because of him that the Nursery Tavern got its name.
In 1845 an Act of parliament empowered the trustees of the charity to lay out roads and sell plots by public auction for development. The license for the 'Nursery Gardens' was granted to George Hands on 27th August 1852. The name soon became the Nursery Tavern.
In the 1970s the Nursery was known as 'Kelly's' after the family that had run it for many years. When Tony Kelly retired, Manns took the opportunity to double the size of the pub by extending into the next door house.