Our HistoryThe plot of land on which The Jolly Sailor stands today was purchased in 1772 by Joseph Arnold and Joseph Wadsworth, both hat-band makers in Macclesfield. They agreed to erect, “uniformly with stone or brick and cover with slate” one or more buildings. Although none of the present day streets were laid out they were also bound, together with the tenants of adjoining properties, to maintain the cartbridge recently built on the road between Waters Green and Parsonage Green.
The pub probably acquired its first licence shortly after the introduction of the Beerhouse Act of 1830 and it’s first mentioned by name around 1834 when the licensee was Thomas Kemp. It may well have been granted a full licence during the tenancy of George Shipley who was landlord for some twenty years from the early 1840’s. In the 1850’s although the pub was not tied to any single brewer, Joseph Hollad advertised “East India and other Burton Ales of Messers. Bass & Co. and Allsopp & Son”. When William Burgess took over the pub in 1882 it had its own brewing plant and he developed this side of the business further and advertised locally as “ale and porter merchant and bottler”. Burgess purchased the pub in 1907 and continued the business until his death in April 1920. Seven months later his son and son-in-law, his trustees, sold the property to Brunt Bucknall & Co. Ltd, Wine and Spirit Merchants based in Woodville, Derbyshire. They were taken over shortly afterwards by Thomas Salt & Co of Burton-on-Trent, who were in turn taken over in 1927 by Bass Ratcliffe & Gretton. The Jolly Sailor was once a Residential House and in 1839 one of the lodgers, John Hughes, killed himself with an overdose of laudanum. Perhaps his ghost is still in residence! |
Landlords
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Inventory of 'Stock in Trade' Taken in 1920
Bar
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Utensils in Trade
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spirit store
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commercial room
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cellar
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shed
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