at 63 East Hill in 1901 and 1906
Colchester pub history index
Residents at this address
1822/T. Clark/../../../Pigot's*
1823-4/T. Clark/../../../Pigot's
1828-9/Robert Lloyd/../../../Pigot's
1832-3/Robert Lloyd/../../../Pigot's
1839/Elizabeth Lloyd/../../../Pigot's
1845/Daniel Leggett/../../../Post Office
1901/W Sutton/Inn Keeper/59/Kelvedon, Essex/Census
1901/Mary Ann Angier/Domestic Servant/30/Lowestoft, Suffolk/Census
+ Lodgers
1902/William Sutton/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's
1906/Walter J Vaughan/../../../Kelly's
1907/J. W. Vaughan/../../../Benham's
Note: Premises not named in 1902 & 1907
Joiners Arms, Colchester – Two for the price of one!
This story all starts with the
birth of the first of 14 children of my Great Grandfather Henry John Dadds
and a barmaid called Mary Ann Thompson in 1907. The registration of their
son gave an address as Joiners Arms, East Hill, Colchester and the
investigation began.
Most of the Essex work on this site was produced by Ian Hunter and getting
in to the Colchester records I found an entry for Joiners Arms, Trinity
Street and East Hill. Quickly out with the map I noticed a problem, East
Hill and Trinity Street seemed to be a distance from each other. Not to be
outdone I shot to another excellent Colchester site
www.camulos.com and found that in
Trinity Street the Joiners Arms building still existed, in fact there was a
picture of it but it is now called The Purple Dog and was also
The Clarence in an earlier life. Also, this
established that my Joiners Arms couldn’t be this one unless the birth
registration was wrong.
I then found The Clarence landlords in the
early twentieth century were the Goodman’s and a picture also confirmed this
was the former Joiners Arms in Trinity Street building, yet the landlord of
the Joiners Arms in that period was a Vaughan. So did we have two Joiners
Arms for the price of one here?
The answer was yes, thanks to confirmation from
Camulos Webmaster Sdapeze, as Mary
Ann’s Joiners Arms was at 93 East Street at the bottom of East Hill whilst
the earlier Joiners Arms was in Trinity Street and was then The Clarence and
is now The Purple Dog.
Many thanks to and Jess for their help in my search. ***
1908/Walter James Vaughan/../../../Kelly's
* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
*** Provided by Terry Dadds