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The Malt Shovel - this pub, which stands near the top of Union Street is believed to have opened as a beerhouse in around 1850 and by 1854 it is known to have been under the management of Thomas Cross assisted by his wife Mary (née Marshall). Thomas was born in Chilwell in 1800 but had lived during his adult life in Beeston, first as a farm labourer but later as a maltster. He had married his first wife, Sarah Dakin, in 1823 and they had three daughters before Sarah’s early death in 1843. In December of the following year, he married Mary, herself the widow of William Ball who had died in 1835. Mary and William had had two sons - Alfred, born in 1818 who had married Adah Wheatley, a Chilwell girl, and later settled together in California where he traded successfully as a grocer and Thomas who emigrated to Australia where he married Mary Pedder, a Nottingham girl in 1849. Thomas’s daughters each married locally between 1853 and 1856

Now, with all of their respective children virtually settled and no children of their own, Thomas and Mary were able to take on the management of The Malt Shovel, an occupation Thomas must have hoped for during his years working as a maltster. And so it was that they were to work there together for some six year until, in June 1860, Mary died, aged 62 and was buried in Beeston Churchyard. Perhaps remarkable, just three months later, Thomas went on to marry Margaret (née Cox about 1805 in Rufford, Notts), the widow of John Oldham who had served as the local Assistant Overseer in Beeston, up to his relatively recent death.

Thomas and Margaret Cross were to manage the Malt Shovel up to about 1864, after which they were to move to live on the north side of the High Road, between Villa Street and Stoney Street, adjacent to William Barnes, the decorator, where Thomas was to trade as a greengrocer. Thomas died in 1878 in Beeston after which Margaret to continue to trade at the same location as a provisions dealer. She died in Beeston in 1888.

Although we are, for now, currently unaware of who owned The Malt Shovel in these early days, it is known that, in May 1864, probably coinciding with Thomas Cross leaving, the premises were offered for sale (see right). In the following August the premises were sold to anothr unknown purchaser who promptly offered them for rent and, certainly by 1866, the management role had been taken by Henry Jackson, born in 1818 in Lenton and who had previously worked as a cordwainer (shoemaker), the son of James Jackson, also a cordwainer, and his wife Jane. In 1851. He had married Rachel Hibbard, a daughter of Matthew, also a cordwainer and his wife Mary, in Mansfield and went on to have three children. By 1855, they had moved to Beeston where they set up home – and a shoe repairs business – on Cox’s Lane (now City Road). Sadly, in 1864, Rachel died but two years later he married Mary Wright (née Roebuck) who had been widowed twice and had five children, the youngest being only about a year old. Together, they were attracted to taking what was a new direction to each of them by taking on the tenancy of The Malt Shovel.

Jackson and his wife were to continue there until leaving in about 1877, possibly triggered by a seemingly unfortunate prosecution for allowing drinking out of hours, a charge that he denied but was found guilty of. After leaving the tenancy, they moved on to live with family in Lenton and Thomas restarted his shoe business. He died in 1883, aged 65.

By 1878, he had been followed as the landlord of The Malt Shovel by John Blatherwick, who had been born in Arnold, Notts in 1845, the eldest son of Thomas Blatherwick, a blacksmith and Rebecca (née Beardsley) his wife. By the time he was 15 he had joined his father as a blacksmith – later as frame smiths - and was to continue in the trade up to soon after his marriage, in September 1874, to Fanny Hooley (née Claringburn) who was born in Radford, Nottingham in 1846, the daughter of William Claringburn, a Radford grocer and his wife Mary (née Humphries). Fanny had been briefly married to Samuel Hooley in 1871, before his death in December of that year, less than two months after their marriage. Now, as a couple, John and Fanny were to take on The Malt Shovel, apparently with some success as John was to continue in the trade for the remainder of his working life.

However, in October 1882, The Malt Shovel was, again, offered for sale at auction and was sold, for £1,640, to Beeston Brewery, which had recently opened near the station. As such, it was one of the first pubs that it owned but as we have seen, it was eventually, under Theodore Bunning, to be one of many pubs in the Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire owned and tied to the brewery.

In the event, either as a result of the change in ownership or for some other reason, John and Fanny Blatherwick had left The Malt Shovel by 1883 and by the following year he is known to have become the landlord of The Crown Inn in Beeston. Tragically, later in that year, Fanny died, aged only 38. Later, by 1891, he was to take on The Chequers in Chilwell, and in 1900 he married Mary Collyer, from Lichfield, Staffordshire who had been working as an assistant to his brother George at his hotel in Bulwell. Sadly, the marriage was not to end well as she was granted a judicial separation, in 1903, on the grounds of cruelty. By 1911 he had retired to live on Park Road, Chilwell where he died on Christmas Day 1912. He left a substantial estate, with his effects valued at £4,526, probably not including his portfolio of properties in the area which were left in trust. With no wife or children of his own, it is not clear who inherited from this then substantial estate.

Early in 1883, Theodore Bunning had become the General Manager of Beeston Brewery, and he would have been keen to bring the few pubs it then owned into line with his ambitions for the company and, it seems, turned to his long-time friend, Edward Mason, for guidance. He, it seems, suggested the appointment of his son, Samuel Mason, as the manager of The Malt Shovel and this was put in place, later in 1883, to impose the company’s disciplines. By 1886, he had completed that task and had moved on to play a similar role at The Queens Hotel in Beeston which had also been acquired by Bunning. Sadly, he died in 1894, aged only 33 and is buried in Beeston Cemetery where his memorial survives.

Briefly, from 1886, the landlord was an otherwise unidentified Thomas Perkins who appears to have left following a conviction for his being found drunk on the premises.

Next as landlord was James Butler, born in Carlton, Notts in about 1834, who had married Elizabeth Mee in 1860. They had previously lived in Nottingham where James worked as a framework knitter and, by 1881, they had also traded as grocers. By 1888, he had had taken the tenancy of The Malt Shovel, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, the youngest of their four children. He was to make two attempts to add a wine licence, but both were refused. By 1891, the girls had found work locally while their parents ran the pub with the help of a live-in domestic servant. Sadly, within weeks, Elizabeth died. Later that year, Harriett, their older daughter, married John Joseph Bywater, a near neighbour on Union Street and they were to have two children, Nellie in 1891 and William Henry in 1894. Sadly, Harriett died in 1898 but perhaps it was she who inspired her widowed husband, with his second wife, to become the landlord of the Rose Inn and later The Star, both on Middle Street (see here). Sadly, their son was killed on the Somme in 1916 (see here). James Butler gave up the tenancy, having taken another at The Rose Tavern on Mount Street in Nottingham. By 1911 he was boarding in Nottingham, working as a wool spinner.

By 1899, the licensee was Arthur Corden who was born in Ilkeston in about 1862, the son of Alexander (a frame smith) and Maria (née Tatham) Cordon. In 1888, he married Jane Manners, a daughter of William, an Ilkeston tailor, and Ellen (née Palfreyman) Manners and set up home in Ilkeston with Arthur working as a lace warehouseman. Their son, Alexander Arthur Leonard, was born in Ilkeston in 1897 and their daughter, Elsie May, in Beeston in June 1899. By 1902, Arthur and his family appear to have left Beeston and taken a pub in Bramcote where he died in September 1907 leaving an estate of £249 to his widow. She too was able to look to John Joseph Bywater for help and, by 1911 she was boarding, with her children, at The Rose on Middle Street and helping by giving a hand in the pub. Jane died in 1955, aged 90, having lived out her life in Beeston with the help of her daughter and her family.

Briefly, in around 1904/05, the Malt Shovel was managed by Samuel Davis. He was born in 1868 in Shepshed, Leicestershire, the son of Samuel (a self-employed plumber) and Kate Davis. Samuel junior followed his father in the plumbing trade and, by 1891, following his father’s death, he was the lead plumber with his mother running the business. In 1891 he married Annie Pearson (b. c1870 in Quorn, Leicestershire) and, by 1901 he continued trading as a plumber while they lived in Loughborough with their two sons. As we have seen, by about 1904 they had left that behind them to take on a career as a publican despite what appears to have been a marriage that had had its difficulties from its early days. By January 1905, there had been more difficulties and Annie sued for maintenance, claiming that he had repeatedly ill-treated her throughout the marriage. An order for maintenance of 21 shillings a week was granted although, it seems she remained at the pub as she was outside there, talking with their servant when, in April 1900, the police raided to find a card game underway that involved betting. Although Davis denied the facts, he was already under notice to leave by the time of the trial in the following month. However, he was found guilty and fined £5 and those who had been playing were each fined 15 shillings or 7 days. After he left, he and his wife continued to live together on and off for a time and he bought her a tobacconist/sweet shop on Radford Road. But, by December 1908, she left again. Then in March 1909, after he had sold the shop for a loss he sued her for the difference. Seemingly, the resulting trial ended with no real winners. By 1921, he was again living with his widowed mother in Quorn and working as a plumber. Later, he appears to have married again to Sarah, born in August 1881 and they were together in 1939 in Barrow upon Soar, Derbyshire with Samuel still working as an odd-job plumber. He died in 1943, aged 75 leaving his wife £136.

The upset of the gambling incident was to cause difficulty with the Licencing Authorities when a licence for the next tenant, John Clarke, applied for in July 1905 and with an entry fee of £223 already paid, was deferred until the Annual Brewster Sessions in February 1906. Permission for major repairs to the property by its owners was also deferred. At the meeting, the question of whether there were too many licenced premises in the area was discussed but eventually not pursued and the licence was issued. Beeston Brewery, the owners, confirmed that they would proceed with the repairs, which included widening the street outside.

In the event, Clarke moved on shortly after this and was replaced by Arthur Fawcett in July 1906.

In turn, he was followed, just a year later by Cornelius Widdowson who was born in Gunthorpe, Notts in 1865 who had married Agnes Bradley in 1891 in Lowdham and had moved to Beeston by about 1897 where he had found work as a cycle engineer, probably at Humbers, and a home on Lower Regent Street. Either luckily or shrewdly, his move to The Malt Shovel in 1907, avoided the Humber factory closure in Beeston and its move to Coventry in 1908. By 1911 he had moved on to take the tenancy of The Commercial on Wollaton Road but was there for only a short time. It appears that he later returned to engineering as was described as a retired engineer, a widower, living on Gladstone Street in 1939. He died in Scarborough in 1945.

Next to take over, in 1911, was Walter Giles, born in Beeston in February 1883, a son of Francis, a baker trading on Mona Street, and his wife Eliza (née Lane) Giles. Walter had married Kate Alice Hind probably in Beeston in 1907. As it turned out, they had left the tenancy by 1912 and, also by 1921 – and perhaps during the war years - Walter had found work as a toolmaker with Johnson Brothers in Chilwell. By 1925 he was trading as a confectioner in Chilwell but the wish to trade as a publican had not been lost and, by 1939, he was keeping The White Lion Hotel on Tamworth Road, Long Eaton. One of their sons, Ronald James Giles, born in Chilwell in October 1919, became a first-class cricketer, playing for Nottinghamshire from 1937 to 1957. Walter died in 1958 followed by his wife in 1959.

So it was that, in 1912, George Goddard was next to take the reins at The Malt Shovel. He was born in 1882 in Nottingham, the son of William (a shoemaker, b.1851) and Emma (b.c1853, née Holmes) Goddard. George was assisted by his wife Ruth (née Cooke) whom he had married in Nottingham in 1909. By trade, George was a blacksmith and, in fact, in 1911 the couple were living at 18 Union Street where he was working as a blacksmith, making drilling machines while Ruth worked as a sewing machinist. It therefore seems likely that George’s time as a publican was a temporary diversion that lasted no more than two years. By 1921, and likely through the war years, George was working for Angular Hole Drilling Company, in Beeston, forging tools with a power hammer and living with his wife and family on Willoughby Street, Beeston. By 1939, they had moved to Fletcher Road and George continued to work as an engineering blacksmith. He died in Beeston in 1946, followed, in 1962 by his wife.

There are indications that during the war years, the landlord was Percy Ward who also held the position again and is described below.

By 1919, probably earlier, the landlord was Charles Allcock who was born in Bardney, Lincolnshire in 1861, the son of Charles, a coal miner and his wife Sabina. After his family had moved to Bulwell, Nottingham, he married Mary Smith (b. 1861 in Colne Lancashire) in August 1984, By then he was working as a butcher and continued in that trade up to his move to Beeston, except for a time as a coal miner in around 1891. By 1911, assisted by his wife, he was a self-employed butcher in Nottingham. It appears that by 1920 he and his wife had left the pub to live for the rest of their lives nearby, at 32 Union Street. Charles died in 1935, followed, in 1944 by Mary. Charles was followed by 1920 (and preceded in the war years) by Percy Ward who was born in Epperstone, Notts in c1878, the son of John Thomas (a labourer and later a groom/gardener) and Eliza. In 1898, he married Gertrude Elizabeth Clurow (b 1874) at St Albans Church, Sneinton, Nottingham in 1898. He went on to hold a number of jobs, including cab driver in 1911 before managing The Malt Shovel during the Great War years, By 1921 he had moved on again and had taken a job with the Beeston coal dealer, William Gill, as a carter and was living with his wife on Station Road. By 1939 they had moved to live at 1 Gladstone Street, Beeston with Percy working as a clerk in a coal office and they were to live there for the remainder of their lives. Gertrude died in May 1943 and Percy in November 1952.

Early in 1922 there was a major change for The Malt Shovel when its owner, Beeston Brewery, was taken over by Shipstone & Sons Ltd, the well known Nottingham-based brewers and, as a result, the pubs that it owned – which included The Malt Shovel – were transferred to Shipstones – and therefore became their tied houses, selling Shipstone beers.

Cecil Stone (1890-1950) was the youngest child of Sidney Stone, by most standards, the leading player in the pub trade in Beeston at that time, notable, as we have seen, at The Greyhound. Cecil himself stayed clear of direct involvement in the trade until sometime before 1930 when he took the tenancy of The Balaclava Inn in Nottingham. In 1931, he moved back to Beeston and took the tenancy of The Malt Shovel which, oddly, was transferred at that time from Charles Allcock. Perhaps Allcock had effectively sub-let the tenancy to Percy Ward who, as we have seen, had previously been there during the 1920s. In 1937 Cecil Stone left The Malt Shovel to become the landlord of the then newly renovated Charlton Arms in Chilwell where he remained into the war years. He died in 1950.

The next licencee, who was certainly in place by 1939, probably before, was Elizabeth Barnsdall who was assisted by her husband William Henry Barnsdall. Elizabeth had been born in Hyson Green, Nottingham in about 1880, a daughter of William Thomas Maltby (1857-1903) and his wife Harriett (née Worrell, 1857-1928) and had married her first husband, George Wilmott in 1903 in Lenton, when they were both were working in the lace trade. George (1876-1931) was born into the Beeston family of Samuel (1844-1922, a lace maker) and Elizabeth (1852-105, né Cox) Wilmott. The couple were to have no children and, together, were to develop an interest in the licencing trade and, by 1921, they appear to be jointly managing a beerhouse on Howard Street, Nottingham. Later in that decade they took over the licence of the Sir Isaac Newton pub on Glasshouse Street, Nottingham and, sadly, it was here that, in January 1931, George died after a difficult last illness. It was perhaps an indication of his early memories, that he was returned to Beeston for burial. Towards the end of 1933, Elizabeth then married William Henry Barnsdall who was born in Nottingham in May 1887, the son of Henry (a shoemaker) & Mary 'Polly' (née Holland) Barnsdall. On Christmas Day in 1909, he had married Matilda Newton and and William Henry worked as a dyer. They went on to have four children. Sadly, in January 1927. Matilda died, aged only 39. As we have seen, William Henry was to marry Elizabeth Wilmott in Nottingham in 1933 and William began to help Elizabeth run the pub. It was in November 1937, that they gave up the 'Isaac Newton' and then moved to Beeston to take on The Malt Shovel which was licenced in Elizabeth's name with her husband assisting. There, they set about offering a service despite the difficulties of the World War. Sadly however, William Henry died on 24 November 1942 and, at the end of 1943, Elizabeth left The Malt Shovel and lived out her life, latterly in Carlton, Notts, probably with help of the wider family. She died on 10th January 1954 at Stanhope House, then an old peoples' home, in Bingham, Notts.

So it was that The Malt Shovel, came out of the Second World War, still in Shipstones ownership for some years yet, and still serving its customers as it had for approaching a hundred years.

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The Queens Hotel - this "local" pub (shown in its current form on the left), situated on Queens Road - Beeston’s lower main road - can perhaps best be described as utilitarian. Nevertheless, it’s early history was particularly interesting, pointing as it does to the significant changes that happened at that time - changes in which The Queens paid its full part.

By the time its first owner, Edward Mason, came to Beeston, around 1880, his career as a lace designer - probably the most respected and lucrative of all lace trade jobs - was already well established. Born in Radford in 1828, he had married Ann - from another Mason family - at the age of 19, in 1847 and had had thirty years as a draughtsman and designer in the lace trade in Lenton.

See a full genealogy of the Mason family.

By 1880, their children - three sons and three daughters - were all either already married or were about to marry so perhaps it was time for a change. For those who could afford it, building a villa within reach of the station in Beeston had become fashionable and it may have been that aspect that was attractive to a couple who must, by then, have found themselves relatively able to afford this new direction. In what was to prove a particularly shrewd move, they relocated to Beeston where they established themselves on Queens Road, on the corner of Mona Street - then only just beginning to be developed, with just a handful of residents.

By the time of the 1881 census, the Masons were living at their new home - described as on Mona Street, Beeston - with Edward Mason still working as a lace designer. This certainly tends to the likelihood that the original building - evident today as the core of the building - was probably built as a house with later additions and alterations transformed it in the building it is today. Having said that, the relatively large scale of the original building, does seem over-large for a couple whose family was leaving home and it was perhaps for that reason that, later in 1881, its use changed to respond to the opportunities that were fast emerging in the area. The "Hotel" designation implies that it then provided rooms as well as refreshments to visitors - commercial travellers and the like, arriving by rail - as well as catering for a growing local trade.

In this original form, it was a double fronted house with bay windows on the ground floor either side of a central doorway approached by steps. The bay windows extended up to the first floor. Through the central door one entered a central hallway; on the left was a bar with a tap room behind it and on the right was a smoke room. A clubroom extended for the whole length of the front of the first floor.¹ The existance of this club room is typical of pubs in the area which issued checks - of which The Queens was one - see an example here

The area where Mason had built was on the lower fringe of the village core, near to the Midland Railway station but relatively little else - but, as Mason had identified, either before or after their move, things were changing. It was probably the classic combination of land, communication links and a proven local workforce that had begun to attract investors to this area with new engineering industries which offered diversification from the traditional - predominantly hosiery, silk and lace. For Beeston, the change that was happening - the beginning of a decline in the traditional replaced by a surge of new industries - was to ensure its continuing relative prosperity through the end of the 19th and right through the 20th centuries.

This change of emphasis in the local economy had started in 1875 when Thomas Humber and others set up a factory making bicycles on the site next to the station that was later to become Ericsson’s - and is now Siemens. By the time Mason came to Beeston, this factory was employing 80 workers and had begun to provide the impetus for expansion of this lower area - although, in this early stage, much of it was an expansion out of the village core by those working in Beeston’s traditional industries. By the time the Queens Hotel opened, around 1882, Queens Road had over 100 residents and Windsor Street and its terraces were home to nearly 150.

Edward Mason’s venture into the licensed trade corresponded with a change in direction of the career of Samuel Theodore Bunning, who was probably already a friend of Edward Mason. Bunning (Click to read about this remarkable man ) had been Beeston’s stationmaster for over ten years but by sometime about this time - certainly by 1885 - he had moved to take a position with Beeston Brewery which had been built next to the railway, west of the station. It is probable that the two collaborated in the Queen’s Hotel venture - either from its origin or sometime later in the 1880s. In July 1888, Edward’s wife Ann died and it is remarkable that, within six month’s he had remarried - to Mary Brown, the sister of Bunning’s wife, Sarah. Certainly from that time at least, their lives and business interests ran a parallel, if not combined, course. It seems that it was at this date that Samuel Mason, Edward’s youngest son, assumed the licence of the Queens, continuing until his own early death in 1894.

Meanwhile, Bunning’s influence and reputation at Beeston Brewery and through the licensed trade in the wider local area was growing. As we have described elsewhere, by 1891 he had become the Manager of the brewery and had also begun to accumulate a substantial portfolio of licensed houses, all within 30 miles of his base in Beeston. It appears that it was during this time, probably after the death of Edward’s wife - and almost certainly by the time of the later death of his son - that The Queens passed into Bunning’s control. By April 1891, Edward and his second wife (Bunning’s wife’s sister) had left the Queens - where his son was now licensee - and were to be found living as visitors, with the Bunnings in the Manager’s house at the brewery.

By this time - 1891 - with the continued growth of local industry, the area around the Queens had seen a boom in building and a large influx of residents many of which would, no doubt, become its customers. The Humber Company in particular, had moved to a new, much larger site at the corner of what is now Humber Road and Queens Road and was to eventually employ up to 2000 people. Housing for these workers and others sprang up quickly in the area - on Evelyn Street, Salisbury Street, Hawthorne Grove, Dallas York Road, Lower Regent Street, Humber Road, Thyra Grove, Dagma Grove, Mona Street and Queens Road itself. All these new residents were close enough to call The Queens their local.

After Samuel Mason’s death in 1894, Joseph Taylor became the licensee and is know to have stayed there until about 1912 (except that for a short period, around 1905 when William Dodson, who was also the licensee of the Prince of Wales in Beeston was manager for Taylor for some reason). Taylor, originally from Lincolnshire, had come to Beeston as a young man, around 1870 and had worked as a servant locally - latterly as a coachman and gardener. His new position - as a manager for the owner - would have offered a change of direction and perhaps more stability for Taylor and his family - and an opportunity now that business at the Queens was really taking off. Taylor was undoubtedly, a manager who was respected by Bunning as the Queens was the venue - presumably in the Club Room - for the Annual General Meeting of The Beeston Brewery Company Limited for most years between 1907 and 1913². By this latter year, George James Brown had become the licensee and is known to have remained there for at least 10 years.

The initial period of excellent fortune for the Queens, would have continued into the 20th Century - with even more industry arriving. Beeston Boiler Company opened its foundry on the adjacent site in 1897, the Humber Company expanded its range to make motor-cycles and cars and its old site near the railway station was now occupied, first by the National Telephone Company and, from 1903, by Ericsson Telephones - who were to remain a major employer and continue, in new ownership, to this day. Nonetheless, the Humber Company’s sudden move to Coventry in 1907, taking several thousand workers - many of them likely to be Queens regulars - with it, would have been a major blow - as it was to Beeston’s economy as a whole.

In February 1922, control of The Beeston Brewery Company Limited was acquired by James Shipstone & Sons Ltd. Brewing at Beeston was then discontinued and the brewery converted in a maltings in 1924.³ It would, therefore, be from that date that The Queens started to sell Shipstones products (widely referred to as "Shippos"). However, in clear indication that the Queens had been owned by Bunning personally - with Beeston Brewery supplying the beer - actual ownership of The Queens did not pass to Shipstones until May 1928 when it was bought for £537 13s 11d. plus £32 3s 7d for the unexpired license.⁴ This date is significant as Bunning had died in the previous month and Probate had just been obtained.

Notwithstanding actual ownership, it was Shipstones, in 1922, who made major alterations to the premises, much of which are clearly visible in today's building - the ground floor was extended at the front to the street and the layout of the public rooms was much altered. The clubroom disappeared, being now divided into two to add to the private accommodation. In 1936, further alterations to the ground floor were made, creating an entrance to the lounge with an additional flight of steps constructed next to the entrance to the Off Sales on Mona Street - clearly evident today as two short flights of steps divided by a wall. The alterations can be seen clearly in the 1983 photo of The Queens (shown left) then in Shipstone's livery.¹

Life at The Queens over the next few decades would not have been as buoyant as it was in its early days - it would have benefited from Shipstone’s management but the general economic conditions of the 1920s and 1930s would have reflected badly. However, it was fortunate to be close to a growing workforce at Beeston Boiler, an even bigger employer at Ericssons - where the workforce reached 4500 by 1939 - and a large new employer at the nearby Boots site.

In September 1939, of course, War came again and The Queens would have played its part as a "local" within the constraints of the time. But, on the night of the 7th/8th April 1941 it found itself caught up in the damage caused by incendiary bombs dropped across Beeston, one of which caused considerable damage to the front of The Queens (shown right). Despite wartime shortages and restriction, repairs - costing £585 - were put in place almost immediately.⁵

Shipstones is no longer, of course an independent brewery - having been acquired by Greenalls in 1978 - but The Queens remains today as part of the Punch Tavern chain, as always, serving and responding to the changing local community.

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¹I am indebted to Grenville Chamberlain for providing the 1983 photograph and details of the original layout of The Queens and the alterations by Shipstones. Both the 1922 and 1936 alterations were from plans prepared by Messrs W. B. Starr & Hall, Architects & Surveyors of 12 Victoria Street, Nottingham. The 1922 plans were approved at the transfer sessions held at Shire Hall Nottingham on 9th September 1922. The 1936 plans were passed at the Adjourned General Annual Licensing Meeting held at the Shire Hall on 7th March 1936.
²Minute Book of Meetings of the Directors of The Beeston Brewery Company Limited : Nottinghamshire Archives - DD SH 11/2/1/2
³The House of Shipstone (Published 1953) : Nottinghamshire Archives - DD SH 5/3/67. More details of the terms of the take-over are contained in the Minute Book of Meetings of the Directors of The Beeston Brewery Company Limited (see footnote 2). Letters discussing the proposed terms, found loose in the Minute Book are at Nottinghamshire Archives - DD SH 11/2/1/2
⁴James Shipstone & Sons Ltd, Public House Valuation Book : Nottinghamshire Archives - DD SH 8/12
⁵James Shipstone & Sons Ltd, Repairs Ledger : Nottinghamshire Archives - DD SH 5/3/67. The photograph of the damage is from one of two that are displayed in the bar at the Queens. More details of this air-raid, including damage to houses in Mona Street are to be found in "Beating the Invader" compiled by Judith Church (Chilwell Publishers, 2006) ISBN 0 9553849 0 7

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