Looking at Kellys directories for the period that I have access to gives the following (remember that it is reasobable to assume that the publication date is up to a year after the date of the information )[/font]
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72 Duke St[/font], beer retailer (which probably means it was a beerhouse)[/font]
1883 Mrs Caroline Hunt[/font]
1884-1903 John Stanley[/font]
1904-1905 William Marsh[/font]
1908-1910 William Marshall[/font]
1912-1915 William Clark[/font]
1921 George Thorogood[/font]
1932-1940 William Barlow[/font]
1943-1956 Mrs Lily May Williams[/font]
For Kellys after that landlords are not listed.[/font]
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The electoral roll shows that William Barlow was there from at least 1925, though the pub does not appear to be listed in the 1922 rolls, so maybe in that year whoever was running it was not living there.[/font]
It is first named as a public house in 1937, which means it probably then became a full pub and not just a beerhouse[/font]
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Incidently in 1883 there was a John Stanley, coal dealer at 96 Duke St.[/font]
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Again from Kellys:[/font]
209 Bloomsbury St[/font] , beer retailer [/font]
1908 Joseph S. Stanley[/font]
1910-1913 Josiah Stanley[/font]
But by 1915 Josiah is a beer retailer at 177 Hurst St[/font]
In 1921 he is missing from Kellys[/font]