Wine and Spirit Vaults, 9 Smithford Street
These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
BEERHOUSE | |||
1866 | 1879 | WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS | |
1879 | 1892 | CITY VAULTS | |
1892 | 1893 | CITY WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS | |
1894 | 1912 | CLARENCE HOTEL | |
The photograph above, taken by Joseph Wingrave in the 1860s, is exactly how the premises and its surroundings would have looked in its early days.
Until 1865 this was a ladies and gents clothes shop, but on the 26th January 1866 Andrew Sumner, having only the day before mutually dissolved his partnership with his father, Charles, opened a Wholesale Wine and Spirit establishment at No. 9 Smithford Street, passing this business on to James Colley in 1870.
From 1879 Thomas Ball began to advertise it as the CITY VAULTS, and for just 6 months from July 1892 until early 1993 Hugh Thomas Gregory advertised constantly in the Midland Daily Telegraph his CITY WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS.
When William Hadfield took the reins in September 1894 it became the CLARENCE HOTEL until closure in 1912. | |||
LICENSEES:1866 - 1870 Andrew Sumner 1870 - 1879 James Colley | |||
Street plan of 1851 | |||
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