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This page is a bare-bones entry for a location which appears on an historic Ordnance Survey map. More detailed information may eventually be added...
Details
- appears on maps: 1851 [#296], 1890 [#20]
- location on map: Manchester Road (formerly Wakefield and Austerlands Turnpike), Longroyd Bridge, Huddersfield
- status: still exists but now under a different use
- category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc.
The inn was in existence by the mid-1820s when Robert Mellor was named as the landlord. He died suddenly at the Queens Head Hotel in Huddersfield in June 1847.[1]
Licensee Tom Schofield committed suicide at the inn on Friday 28 May 1920.[2]
Huddersfield Police Court
- 01/Nov/1851 — landlord Benjamin Kay charged with keeping his house open during the hours of divine service (discharged on payment of 5s. expenses)
Location
Notes and References
- ↑ Leeds Times (21/Apr/1838) and "Awfully Sudden Death and Inquest" in Bradford Observer (24/Jun/1847).
- ↑ Leeds Mercury (31/May/1920).