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Building the Dukeries Hotel in Edwinstowe 1890s

The Dukeries Hotel is situated just before the railway bridge on Rufford Road. Mansfield Brewery purchased the site in 1895 for £543. The licence was granted at the Retford Quarter Sessions on 21^st October 1896 and the hotel was built in 1897.

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Back view of Dukeries Hotel 1896

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Dukeries Hotel 1904

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Front view of Dukeries Hotel

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The Dukeries Hotel

The effect of the coming of the Railway on Edwinstowe, according to newspaper reports.  1896 The Retford & Gainsborough Times. 

With a view to providing further hotel accommodation for the many thousands of visitors to the Dukeries, the Mansfield Brewery Company is erecting at Edwinstowe, on a site on the opposite side of the main Edwinstowe to Ollerton road to the station on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Co.’s new line, a magnificent family hotel and refreshment rooms combined.  It includes, on the ground floor, a coffee room, a private sitting room an office for the manager, a refreshment room, a bar parlour surrounded by a veranda, suitable for large assemblies and dancing, cloakrooms, lavatories, kitchens, a scullery, a larder and other necessary offices. The first floor contains further sitting-room accommodation, a large drawing room, numerous spacious bedrooms, a bathroom and lavatories, etc. The second floor comprises additional bedroom accommodation, stores and a tank room for storing water for domestic purposes and for use in case of fire.  Spacious beer and wine cellars are also provided under the central portion of the building.  Behind the main building commodious stables and coach houses are to be arranged, and the remaining part of the site will be laid out as pleasure gardens, with tennis courts etc.

A picturesque style of architecture has been adopted as most suited to harmonise with the famous woodland greenery.  The lower part of the structure will be faced with Leicestershire red sand-faced pressed bricks, relieved by white Mansfield stone dressings and the upper portion will be constructed of half-timber with cement panels.  The principal entrance to the hotel is through the open timbered porch, above which is an overhanging gable in timber.  The roofs will be covered with red Staffordshire tiles and ornamental ridging of a suitable character.  The building, which will cost between six and seven thousand pounds, has been designed and arranged by Mr Frank Wallace, FRIBA, of Mansfield, and the contractor is Mr J.F. Price, of Nottingham.  

Getting ready for the Railway By Margaret Woodhead

1896 The Retford & Gainsborough Times.

The Edwinstowe Hotel

‘With a view of providing further Hotel accommodation for the many thousands of visitors to “The Dukeries” the Mansfield Brewery Company are erecting at Edwinstowe, on a site on the opposite side of the main road from Edwinstowe to Ollerton to the station on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Co.’s new line, a magnificent family Hotel and refreshment rooms combined. It will contain on the ground floor a coffee room, private sitting room and office for the manager, refreshment room, bar parlour surrounded by a veranda, suitable for large assemblies and dancing, cloakrooms, lavatories, WC’s, kitchens, scullery, larder, and other necessary offices.

Dukeries Hotel showing the pavilion

The first floor contains further sitting room accommodation, large drawing room, numerous spacious bedrooms, bathroom, lavatories etc., etc. The second floor comprises additional bedroom accommodation, stores and tank room for storing water for domestic purposes and for use in case of fire. Spacious beer and wine cellars are also provided under the central portion of the building. Behind the main building commodious stables and coach houses are arranged, and the remaining part of the site will be laid out as pleasure gardens, with tennis courts, etc.

This page was created by Margaret Woodhead on 16/03/2011.

The Dukeries Hotel

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Dukeries Hotel c. 1900

Dukeries Hotel c. 1900

Dukeries Hotel c. 1900

The Dukeries Hotel – The Lawn c. 1909

The Dukeries Hotel 1920s – before the fire

Fire at the Dukeries Hotel

Disaster struck at the Dukeries Hotel on 9^th February 1929 when, according to the newspaper ‘One of the most destructive fires in the Mansfield area in recent times’ broke out in the early hours of the morning.  Mr Edward, who lived opposite, reported that his dog woke him and he looked out of his shop window to see the hotel a mass of flames with smoke pouring out of the bedrooms.  He alerted the hotel and the fire brigades of both Edwinstowe and Mansfield.  They were hampered by the hydrant being frozen up and water having to be pumped from the river.  It wasn’t until 4pm that the Mansfield brigade was able to leave.  The fire broke out again during Tuesday night, as the rafters were still smouldering, but the local brigade, under Mr. P. Morley, was still on duty. The Mansfield Brewery owned the hotel and the occupiers were Mr. & Mrs. Snaith.  Mr. Snaith was overcome by the shock of the blaze and was taken to hospital.  It is believed that the fire broke out in the neighbourhood of the vaults and that area, the billiard room; the smoking room and the bedrooms over were entirely destroyed.  During the day the firemen were fed by Mrs. Watkin of the Jug and Glass, 23 luncheons at a combined price of £3.19s.10d. The hotel was rebuilt but to a modified plan and without the pavilion, which had been intended to feed groups of 200.

Fire at the Dukeries Hotel, Edwinstowe, 1929 By John Farjeon

Happy times: Announcement of the opening of the Dukeries Hotel, 1897

Mansfield Advertiser, 23rd July 1897 p5c1

History of the Hotel

In the book “Edwinstowe Past & Present” compiled by the Edwinstowe Historical Society in 1987 (p.39) it is recorded that The Mansfield Brewery purchased the site of the hotel (just across from the railway station) in 1895 for £543.  The licence was granted at the Retford Quarter sessions on 21st October 1896, and the hotel was built in 1897.  M.J. Jackson, meanwhile, in his book “Edwinstowe: The Story of a Forest Village” (p32) says “The Dukeries Hotel, vast in comparison with other village hostelries, was built primarily to cater for those coming into the village by train and during the summer months the number of visitors was considerable”.

The Mansfield Advertiser (18th September 1896, p3 c3) recorded that, “With a view to providing further Hotel accommodation for the many thousands of visitors to ‘The Dukeries’, the Mansfield Brewery Company are (sic) erecting at Edwinstowe, on a site on the opposite side of the main road… to the Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Co.’s new line, a magnificent family hotel and refreshment rooms combined”.

It said the hotel would cost about £7,000 to build, and that the architect was Mr. R. Frank Vallance F.R.I.B.A. of Mansfield. The paper continued with a detailed description of the exterior and interior: – Outside: “A picturesque style of architecture has been adopted as best suited to harmonize with famous woodland scenery.  The lower part of the structure will be faced with Leicestershire red sand faced pressed bricks, relieved by white Mansfield stone dressings, and the upper portion will be constructed half-timber with cement panels.

The principal entrance to the hotel is through an open timbered porch, above which is an overhanging gable in timber.  The roofs will be covered with red Staffordshire tiles and ornamental ridging of a suitable character”. Inside: “[It will contain] on the ground floor, coffee room, private sitting rooms, billiard and smoke rooms, sitting room and office for the manager, refreshment room, bar parlour, pavilion 51 feet by 24 feet, surrounded by a veranda, suitable for large assemblies and dancing, cloak rooms, lavatories, w.c.’s, kitchens, scullery, larders, and other necessary offices.

The first floor contains further sitting room accommodation, large drawing room, numerous spacious bed-rooms, bathroom, lavatories, etc. etc. The second floor comprises additional bedroom accommodation, stores and tank room for storing water for domestic purposes and fir use in case of fire. Spacious beer and wine cellars are also provided under the central portion of the building. Behind the main buildings commodious stables and coach-houses are arranged, and the remaining part of the site will be laid out as pleasure grounds, with tennis courts etc”

Looking at Trade directories, in 1912 and 1916 the manageress was Miss Charlotte Fox.  The next available directory – 1922 – then lists Edgar Handley Hind as proprietor.  Hind appears again in the 1925 directory, but by 1928 has been superseded by H. Snaith. 

Then, in early 1929, disaster stuck

“The Dukeries Hotel is the property of the Mansfield Brewery Company, and was occupied by Mr and Mrs H Snaith, a daughter and son-in-law of Mr F. Oliver of the Dial Hotel, Mansfield.  During Tueasday morning Mr Snaith was overcome by the shock of the affair and was removed to Mansfield.

FIRE!

On 22nd February 1929 The Mansfield Advertiser reported (p.6) “Destructive Fire at Edwinstowe: Well-known hotel practically destroyed: £12,000 – £15,000 damage”.  The article went on:-

“One of the most destructive fires in the Mansfield area in recent years occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning, involving the well-known Dukeries Hotel at Edwinstowe.  More than one-half of the building was destroyed, and the portion remaining has suffered considerable damage from fire and water.  The total damage is placed at Between £12,000 and £15,000.

“The story of the discovery of the fire was related to a representative of the ‘Advertiser’ by Mr E.H. Edwards, who occupies a shop immediately opposite the hotel.  About 3.30 on Tuesday morning, stated Mr Edwards, his Alsatian dog jumped on to his bed and aroused him, and as the animal continued restless he got up and came into the shop, and on looking through the window saw the pavilion adjoining the hotel a mass of flames and smoke and flames were also pouring out of the bedrooms at that end of the hotel.

“He then went to arouse the inmates of the hotel, all of whom were sleeping at the opposite end from the fire, but whose rooms were beginning to fill with smoke.  Mr Edwards summoned the Mansfield Fire Brigade by telephone, and also Mr P. Morley, captain of the Edwinstowe Brigade, but the latter were handicapped from getting to work on the blazing building owing to the hydrants being frozen up.

“The call was received at the Mansfield Fire Station at 4.15, and the brigade, under Captain A. Colbert, with two engines, arrived on the scene at 4.47.  ‘It looked an almost hopeless task,” said Capt. Colbert, ‘when we arrived’. “Some delay was experienced before the engines could be got to work owing to the stream from which water was pumped having to be cleared to immerse the suction.  “In order to cope with the fire, the Mansfield brigade had to couple up forty lengths of hose, and the large engine was pumping water from the stream nearly a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the fire, for seven hours at the rate of 400 gallons per minute and giving a pressure from the jets of 120lbs. to the square inch. “After nearly five hours’ work the firemen began to get the mastery of the flames, but it was not until four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon that the Mansfield Brigade was able to leave Edwinstowe. “At mid-day spurts of flame were still to be seen shooting out from various parts of the ruins.  The fire broke out again during Tuesday night among the rafters in that portion of the building which had been saved.  The local brigade, fortunately, were still on duty and were able to extinguish the outbreak.

The Dukeries Hotel 1930

The Dukeries Hotel 1950s

The Dukeries Return

After eight years under the name of Ma Hubbard’s, The Dukeries name has been restored to this much-loved village landmark, built in 1896 to provide accommodation for the many thousands of visitors to the Dukeries. In addition to the new signs that have been put in place, the whole building has had a fresh coat of paint. Over the past eight years, Ma Hubbard’s has been a popular venue, especially for families to enjoy a meal out together. Mark Blow has been proprietor during this time. Also, due to popular request, the former tap room has now been reinstated.

Mark is very proud of his hanging baskets that are planted out every year, with not only summer bedding plants but also with a selection of winter plants and greenery. He has installed a watering system to keep the plants looking good during the summer months. It is pleasing to see this lovely building maintained to such a high standard.

SM

Joe Bennett writes.

My father saved clippings from local papers containing what he thought would be of interest to future generations. Two clippings have come to light recently regarding the vanished Inns and Hostelries in the Worksop Area. They were taken from The Worksop Guardian in the 1950s and the information was obtained from The Derbyshire & Notts. Post Office Directory for 1853. Some are listed here: Bothamsall The New Inn; Carburton- The Sun; Eakring- The Old Ostrich, The Horse and Trumpet; Edwinstowe- The Tally Ho; Kirton- The Hearty Goodfellow; Kneesall- The Old Black Horse; Ollerton Village- The Jolly Sportsman, The Blue Bell, King William IV, The Hop Pole, The White Hart, The Board. The Jolly Sportsman, believed to be on Wellow Road, also known as the Hit & Miss and, even earlier, as The Malsters Arms. The Blue Bell, occupied the site of Maloney’s  butcher’s shop, King William IV stood in the main street near the Hop Pole Garage, The Board, also known as The Gate, was on what is now Station Road, long before the station came. The hostelry at Budby appears to be called The White Hart, it was, a calling place for the mail coach running from Newark to Worksop, London to York.

Rufford,- The Labour in Vain, The Tally Ho, on Ollerton Road, which is now Sir David Naish’s House. The Little John, in Edwinstowe, closed as an Inn in the 1890’s. It was opposite Sandy Lane on Rufford Road.

The Forest House Cafe, Church Street, in August, 1952 Now called the Forest Lodge, it and the nearby Sherwood Villa are thought to have been built about 1774.

The Association was formed in1897 to provide transport for visitors arriving at Edwinstowe Station. The Chairman was Mr. Naish, proprietor of the Royal Oak public house. Visitors travelled by four- in- hand or wagonette to Rufford Park via Clipstone. Refreshments were taken at either the Jug and Glass or the Dukeries Hotel. The excursion then continued to the Major Oak, the grounds of Thoresby Hall via Greyhound Lodge, Clumber Bridge and Lime Tree Avenue. Operators had keys to the grounds ducal estates. In 1898, the Duke of Portland threatened to close his estate because of dangerous overcrowding on the vehicles.

Edwinstowe High Street c. 1900. The Royal Oak is on the left had side.

Visit of the Duke of Portland to attend the Dukeries Dinner at the Royal Oak Hotel on 31^st December, 1912.

Royal Oak Hotel c. 1929 showing Frederick Capon and his Mother.

1n 1872, Thomas Bush was proprietor. It was called the Royal Ok Commercial and Posting Hotel. 

The Black Swan is the oldest building on the High Street. Parts of the building are thought to be 500 years old. It has been a public house for many centuries. The building has been altered and extended considerably over the years.

Black Swan Dukeries Tour by carriage c. 1900

Sheriff’s Lodge – now Black Swan c. 1980.

The Black Swan 1986.

The High Street c. 1902 -1904, showing the Black Swan and the Jug and Glass

Deep wells were discovered near the Black Swan, also near the Royal Oak and Manor Farm. Piped water came to the village in 1905. The wells have been filled in.

Ye Olde Jug and Glass

This photograph has Charles in bowler by the front window, his daughter Edith (Ann) in her teens to the left of the front door, a younger cousin Edith from Chester is in the pinafore dress to the right. Behind them is cousin Edith’s mother and maid. Looking from the side door is Ann, and at the top of the yard a groom is preparing a carriage.

The Jug and Glass was home to Christopher Thomson’s Penny Library in 1838. Christopher Thomson was a former travelling player turned painter and decorator and early socialist. He and a group of likeminded people set up the library for the benefit of working men. On discovering that few could read he started night classes in1838. The Edwinstowe Artisans Library and Mutual Instruction Society charged a penny -1d- entrance fee and ran three nights a week. Classes were free but members provided their own coal, candles and books. Instruction was offered in reading, writing, arithmetic, music, drawing and conversation. An annual ball was held to raise funds and after nine years they had five hundred volumes of books.

In 1844, Miles Webster installed gas lighting in his home on the High Street and in Ye Olde Jug and Glass next door.

The Jug and Glass by Margaret Woodhead

There has been a public house on this site since at least 1800.  It may have been a Beer House but by 1813, it was the Jug and Glass Inn with the proprietor John Jackson.  He was proprietor until it changed hands in 1822, to Samuel Webster.  In 1828 it was listed with Mary Hurst as proprietor.  In 1832 it was in the first Directory of Nottinghamshire, published by William White.  The proprietor was again Samuel Webster and Mary Hurst was in the Royal Oak.  He was still there at the 1841 Census.  By then the Oddfellows’ Friendly Society had started in the large back room and 43 members had joined the Benevolence Fund, paying 6d a week to be able to draw money in case of illness or, in death, to pay for a funeral.  One of the leading lights of the Oddfellows was Christopher Thomson, painter, decorator and early socialist who moved into the village.  In 1841 he encouraged a group of like-minded men to celebrate Sherwood Forest by holding a feast for all those who had written, painted or in anyway extolled the Forest.  On November 3, 1841, according to the Sheffield ‘Iris’ Newspaper,   ‘This interesting festival was celebrated in the Birkland & Bilhaugh Lodge room (Jug and Glass,) Edwinstowe, and will hereafter be recorded in annals of intellectual progress of the rural population of England, as one of the most remarkable demonstrations of the kind that ever occurred in that, or perhaps in any other neighbourhood.  The gathering of one hundred farmers, artisans, and labourers, from every part of Sherwood Forest, to that lovely rural village which has from time immemorial been considered its very heart;…..We repeat, the gathering of 100 farmers, artisans, woodsmen, and agricultural labourers, purely for literary and intellectual objects  qualifies us, as journalists, in attributing to the occasion a high degree of curiosity and importance’  During the two days’ festivities, for the less literary there were games on the forest: donkey races, climbing the greasy pole to reach a new beaver hat, bobbing for oranges, ‘cuts for the comical through a collar’ (pulling funny faces through a horse collar) and a sack race.  According to the Wright Directory of 1853, ‘In 1844 Mr Miles Webster enlivened the village by constructing Gas Works by which, besides his own premises and a large lamp in the street, he supplied the Jug and Glass his next door neighbour, and is about to enlarge his works’.  When the directory was compiled  Joseph Jackson was proprietor.  Elizabeth Bullivant was at the Black Swan, Thomas Walter at the Royal Oak, and James Davis at the Tally Ho, which is now the house opposite East Lane on Ollerton Road, James Davis was Master of the Hunting Dogs.  By 1864 William Yates was in the Jug and Glass and we are informed by the directory that Edwinstowe Fair, authorised by Henry 111, was held on October 24, St Edwin’s Day and the Parish Feast was on the following Sunday.  Mr Tudsbury had an extensive wood carving establishment and had a prize medal awarded at the Exhibition of 1862. In 1872, William Yeates was the proprietor of the Jug and Glass but by 1885 Mrs Jane Yeates was the proprietor and the Forest House was a Boarding House with Dining and Refreshment rooms run by Mr Charles Naish.  According to the Census of 1801 Charles Watkin was proprietor of the Jug and Glass, aged 51, with his wife Ann and his youngest daughter Edith Ann, aged 10.  She was to marry Herbert Woodhead and they helped Ann Watkin to run it until her death at 90 in 1933.

This photograph of the refurbished Jug and Glass circa 1920s, has Edith (Ann) Woodhead and her daughter Edith (Mary) Woodhead stood in the doorway. Charles widow Ann lived at the Jug and Glass.

Ye Olde Jug and Glass 1995

The Little John, Rufford Road c. 1890s 

The Little John Inn was converted from three cottages situated on Rufford Road, opposite Sandy Lane. It traded as a public house until 1897 and then reverted to being a dwelling. The building was demolished c. 1950.

Robin Hood Inn/pub.

Across the road was Roy Bowring Farm. The cottages behind the Robin Hood were demolished and the pub enlarged and improved.

Robin Hood Inn/pub under reconstruction when it was enlarged and improved.

The present building.

REGISTER OF VICTUALLERS’ LICENCES granted in the Division (Edwinstowe) of Worksop in the County of Nottingham

ROYAL OAK

Annual Value of Premises 3^rd Sept. 1813: £40

Name and Address of Owner:

1813, Sept. 3: Earl Manvers, Thoresby.

1877, Sept. 9: Earl Manvers, Thoresby

11.2.1930: Warwick and Richardson Ltd., Northgate, Newark upon Trent. (brewery)

List of Licensees, Tenants or Occupiers:

3.9.1813    Thomas Bush

3.10.1877   Edith Bush

26.6.1878   Reuben Perry

13.4.1892   Alfred Naish

9.7.1910     Matthew Shacklock

25.9.1912   Elizabeth Eleanor Naish

15.4.1914   Henry Rooke ?

18.6.1919   John William Wood

29.10.1924  Alf Chas Capon

1.11.1933    Fredk. Walter Dakin

5.2.1936      David McKechim ?

12.2.1941    Herbert Iliffe

13.2.1952     Robert Archibald Forest

10.9.1958     John Briggs ?

28.3.1962     Robert Frank Hicks

5.10.1966     Earl Perry Ellis

8.3.1967       Frank Gladwin

4.7.1973       Leslie Parry Aldred

BLACK SWAN

Annual Value of Premises 3rd Sept. 1873: £17

Name and Address of Owner:

3^rd Sept. 1873: William Henry Stokes, Edwinstowe

9^th Sept. 1874: Devisee (inheritor of property) of William Henry Stokes

List of Licensees, Tenants or Occupiers:

3^rd Sept. 1873   William Hallam

9^th Sept. 1874    William Hallam

26^th April 1882   John Long

25^th Sept. 1889   Arthur Fletcher

10^th July 1901    Emma Fletcher

20^th Oct. 1919     James Thomas Smart

29^th June 1921     Mary Mitchell Smart

24^th Aug. 1927     George Morrison Pearce

22^nd Oct. 1930      George Grundy

18^th Oct. 1944       Emma Grundy

13^th Feb. 1952      John Booth

18^th Feb. 1969      John Booth

16^th Nov. 1983     Wilfred Howard Palfreyman

ROBIN HOOD

Annual Value of Premises 3^rd Sept. 1873: £18

Name and Address of Owner:

3^rd Sept.1873: Duke of Portland, Welbeck

9^th Sept. 1874: Hornby’s Ltd.

List of Licensees, Tenants or Occupiers:

3^rd Sept. 1873   George Sampson

9^th Sept. 1874   George Sampson

16^th June 1897   Sarah Sampson

21^st Feb. 1900   John George Sampson

26^th Oct. 1927   William ? Hornby?

8^th Feb. 1950     John Henry Coupe

10^th Feb. 1960   Aubrey Russell Douglas Farrow

14^th Feb. 1962   Joseph P. Gregson

4^th May 1966     Bernard Thomas Evans

12^th Feb. 1969    James Pilkington Stevens

14^th Dec. 1993    Kenneth Henson

JUG AND GLASS

Annual Value of Premises 3^rd Sept. 1873: £18

Name and Address of Owner:

3^rd Sept. 1873: Robert Wood Smith, Worksop

9^th Sept. 1874: Worksop and Retford Brewery Company Ltd.

List of Licensees, Tenants or Occupiers:

3^rd Sept. 1873   William Gates

9^th Sept. 1874    William Gates

7^th March 1877  Jano Geales

25^th Sept. 1889    Charles Watkin

21^st Oct. 1894    Ann Watkin

8^th Feb.1933       C.H.Holland

8^th Feb. 1936      Leonard Mitchell

27^th Sept. 1950   Walter Owen Clarke

11^th Feb. 1959     Richard Eric Wedd ?Wood

11^th May 1983     Ernest Hazlehurst

Record of Convictions

30^th September 1874.

Fined 5/- and costs for opening after 11 o’clock…..

Dukeries Hotel

26^th August 1896. Victuallers’ Licence granted (removed from Plough Inn, Ollerton. Confirmed)

Name and address of Owner

Mansfield Brewery Company, Mansfield

List of Licensees, Tenants or Occupiers

26^th August 1896  William Jackson Chadburn

1^st January 1902    John Brock

Elizabeth Sarah Brock

28^th May 1902?    Robert Smith

11^th Oct 1905       Frances Jessie Cumming

18^th July 1906      Harriett Shepherd

1^st May 1912        Charlotte Fox

11^th Feb 1920       Edgar Handley Hind

3^rd Feb 1926         Harry Snaith

21^st Oct 1929      Cameron McLauchlan Rice

8^th Feb 1938        John Sharpe

8^th Feb 1939       George Higson Alcock

8^th Feb 1966       Frederick Arthur Gleadhill

6^th Apl 1977       David James Walsh

12^th Dec 1977     Michael Peter Pickard

9^th Aug 1978      Philip Keith Smith

15^th June 1983    Kevin Dunne ?