Location: High Lane, Simmondley
Opened: 1838
Closed: c. 1863
Text from ‘History in a Pint Pot’ by David Field. Published by Glossop & District Historical Society in May 1999.
Although Samuel Ollerenshaw built the Angel in 1826 and may have run it as a beer house for some years it was not until 1838 that he was successful in obtaining an alehouse licence. Three years later in an 1841 Pigot Directory he was described as a victualler of the Angel Inn, Simmondley.
The 1841 Census however describes him as a plasterer and in the 1851 Census as a farmer of 11 acres, in neither was he described as an innkeeper. He remained licensee certainly up to 1853 and possibly up to his death in 1857.
In Harrod’s Directory for 1860 Henry Smithies was described as a shopkeeper and of the Angel Inn. A year later in the Record local paper Mary Brookes was the licensee, in the 1861 Census she was described as a widow aged 59, an innkeeper with one servant and a boarder.
In September 1863 an advertisement appeared in the Record to the affect that “all that well built public house The Angel Inn together with a brew house, stable and clubhouse was to be sold at auction by order of the mortgagees”.
This may have been the end of the Angel as a pub as I have seen no mention of it after this date.
The premises still exist today opposite the Hare and Hounds although it has now been divided into three houses.