178-179-180-181-182-183 after flats High Street

No178-179-180

If you look at the map to the side, No178 is the second property up from the corner of Osborne Street. All this terrace was demolished to make way for Shadbroke House in the 1950's. No178 was the home of Robert Gamble, a Dairyman in 1865 and in 1900 a Mr Henry Pratt who was a Harness Maker.

No179 was the home of Miss Eleanor Hepworth who ran the building as a Apartments. No180 in 1932 was the home of a Mr George Allen Breach and in 1967 Mrs R. V. Murton. The house was pulled down to make way for Jubilee Way in the 1970's. You can just make out all the houses which are now gone and the gardens behind Arnold House.

No181

The Three Herrings was located on the High Street on the location of Shadbroke House which is North of the BP Garage. At the licensing hearing for the pub in 1869 the Three Herrings licence was refused by reason of the immoral character of the house in the past and the young women who frequent the house. Shortly after this the brewery replaced the tenant. In 1898 the pub as pictured on the left was demolished to make way for the road widening but it didn't stay closed for long, as a pre-fab as pictured on the right was constructed. When the old Three Herrings was pulled down the skeletons of some sixty horses were found under the ground floor. To this day no explanation has been put forward as to the reason! In 1900, the pub was rebuilt and the new landlord was Mr William Thomas Handley. Also in the directory it listed a Mr Parr operating his cycle repair business from the pub. In 1967 a Mr L. F. O'Doherty was operating a Dental Surgery from the address.

No182-183

In the Kelly's Directory for 1932, Chambers and Son was listed as Motor Engineers at this address. In the 1940's phone book Mr G. Shepherd was shown to be running the garage as Nest Garage. In the picture on the left you can just see the petrol pumps set back in the doorway of the garage. I don't think with today's regulations you would get awaywith that now! Both Nest Garage and the Belle View Public House built after the realignment of 1899 were demolished in November 1976, to make way for the Jubilee Way.

CREDIT: Crispin Hook