Chaise & Pair, 9 North Hill, Colchester
This pub closed in 1913 and seems mostly to have been a restaurant in the years since. At the time of my visit in May 2010, the premises were empty. **+
Colchester pub history index
Chaise & Pair, 9 North Hill, Colchester - in May 2010
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address
It first appears in records in 1785 as the Chaise and Horses, to be changed to
the Chaise and Pair the following year. A deed dated 1795 mentions Thomas
Stoneham, Susannah his wife and Robert Wright, brandy merchant as purchasing
'all that messuage or tenement called the Magpie Alehouse, since the Red Cow
and now called the Chaise and Pair.'
During the winter of 1783, one 'Signior Invetto' favoured Colchester with
his company and gave exhibitions of 'Grand Fireworks' in the Market Place in
High Street. The announcement of these events stated that 'He makes and
sells all sorts of fireworks at his lodgings, at the Chaise and Four Horses,
North Hill, Colchester.'
In September 1789, a guinea reward was offered by William Walton, of the
Chaise and Horses, for the recovery of 'a Grey Cropt Horse, Aged, About 14
hands high, with cut tail and hanging mane; has a sore on the off side near
the the fore leg,' which had been stolen, or had strayed off the South
Common, in the town. ***
My ggg grandfather a Luke Shave, ran the Chase and Pair in North Hill
Colchester in 1815 *
1815/Luke Shave/../../../Holdens *
1822/James Montagu/../../../Pigot's*
1823-4/James Montagu/../../../Pigot's
1828-9/James Montague/../../../Pigot's
1832-3/Thomas Hill/../../../Pigot's
1839/Thomas Wilson/../../../Pigot's
1742/William Wire/ ***
1845/Elias Boyden/Bricklayer/../../Post Office
1848/Thomas Ward Watson/../../../White's
1851/Thomas Ward Watson/Coach Builder/../../Post Office
1851/Thomas W Watson/innkeeper, coachbuilder (7 men)/34/Colchester,
Essex/Census **
1851/Susanna W Watson/wife/31/Chipping Hill, Essex/Census
1851/Elizabeth Warren/niece, barmaid/19/Chipping Hill, Essex/Census
1851/Susanna Sampson/niece/03/Ipswich, Suffolk/Census
1852/W. Watson/../../../Kelly's*
1855/F. J. Wheatley/../../../Kelly's*
1861/Frederick Wheatley/Publican/56/Colchester, Essex/Census
1861/Sophia Wheatley/Wife/56/Colchester, Essex/Census
1861/? Spurgett/Lodger, Labourer/68/Colchester, Essex/Census
1861/James Barnn?/Lodger, Labourer/20/Wakes Colne, Essex/Census
1861/Emily Legget/Servant/15/West Bergholt, Essex/Census
1862/Frederick James Wheatley/../../../Kelly's
1867/Frederick James Wheatley/../../../Post Office
1870/George Naylor/../../../Kelly's
1871/George Naylor/../../../Post Office
1874/John William Stoffell/../../../Kelly's
1878/John William Stoffell/../../../Kelly's
1881/John W. Stoffell/Publican/56/Camberwell, Surrey/Census
1881/Mary A. Stoffell/Wife/56/Ardleigh, Essex/Census
1881/Margaret Stoffell/Mother/77/Camberwell, Surrey/Census
1881/Ellen Smallbone/Niece, Help/21/Camberwell, Surrey/Census
1881/William Gale/Lodger, Painter/48/Colchester, Essex/Census
1882/John William Stoffell/../../../Kelly's
1886/John William Stoffell/../../../Kelly's
1894/George Hunt/../../../Kelly's
1895/George Hunt/../../../Kelly's
1898/George Hunt/../../../Kelly's
1899/George Hunt/../../../Kelly's
1901/George Hunt/Inn Keeper/35/Waldringfield, Suffolk/Census
1901/Sarah Hunt/Wife/34/Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk/Census
1902/George Hunt/../../../Kelly's
1907/? Oldham/../../../Benham's
1908/William Charles Sheldrake/../../../Kelly's
1912/Ernest Charles Kent/../../../Kelly's
* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
** Provided by John Mead
**+ Provided by Stephen Harris
*** Information kindly provided by Jess Jephcott at http://www.camulos.com
* Provided by Pat Marshall