Location: 15 Victoria Street, Whitfield
Former Names: Albion Hotel (1837-1975), The Trap (1975- ), Market Tavern, Last Orders
Built: 1832
Opened: 1837
The Brook Tavern is still open.
Text from ‘History in a Pint Pot’ by David Field. Published by Glossop & District Historical Society in May 1999.
Built in 1832 by Charles Calvert and assigned on 29th September 1859 to George Goldsmith who died in 1866. It was already a beerhouse in 1837 when Joseph Calvert a joiner and retailer of beer unsuccessfully applied for an alehouse licence. He was also unsuccessful the following year as was Joseph Oates in 1839.
Joseph Hollingworth however was successful in 1845, in the 1851 Census he was described as a publican and butcher aged 35 with a wife Jane, four children and two servants. He was still there in 1859 and was followed according to the local paper by a Mr. Buckley. Other tradesmen who were at the Albion were Enoch Lawton a veterinary and William Turner ‘‘veterinary, cow leech and castrator” who in 1860 respectfully informed the inhabitants of Glossop and neighbourhood that he has commenced business at the Albion Inn Glossop.
The reason the Albion is set back along with the other shops is that it is on the line of the old Turnpike Road which went through Leatherbarrow’s Yard now Morrison’s Yard across Glossop Brook up Smithy Fold and Ellison Street.
The Albion was bought by Thomas Chesters of Ardwick Brewery in June 1872 for £1600 and in 1898 a Music and Dancing Licence was added. Chesters remained owners until 6th December 1971 when it was sold to Free Brew Taverns a director of which Robert Bisson became licensee with the pub reopening after a £50000 refit as the Trap in February 1975.
In 1978 when Robert Taylor was the licensee it boasted thirteen different brews for sale.
In 1982 it was bought by the licensee Gary Mallinder.
Post 1999 – The Trap was renamed Market Tavern and Last Orders. It is now The Brook Tavern.
The Brook Tavern, Whitfield |
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| Built in 1832 by Charles Calvert. It was already a beerhouse in 1837 when Joseph Calvert a joiner and retailer of beer unsuccessfully applied for an alehouse licence. He was also unsuccessful the following year as was Joseph Oates in 1839. Joseph Hollingworth was successful as a licensee in 1845. | |
Albion Hotel |
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| Date | Licensees until 1999 |
| 1837-1838 | Joseph Calvert |
| 1838-1845 | Joseph Oates |
| 1845- | Joseph Hollingworth |
| Mr Buckley | |
| -1860 | Enoch Lawton |
| 1860- | William Turner |
| 1863- | John Chadwick |
| The Albion was bought by Thomas Chesters of Ardwick Brewery in June 1872 for £1600. | |
| -1873 | Joseph Bradbury |
| 1873-1875 | Martha Ann Wilson |
| 1875-1879 | James Whitehead |
| 1879-1881 | Joseph Walton |
| 1881-1892 | William Collier |
| 1892-1903 | Brooke Furniss |
| 1903-1905 | James Fallow |
| 1905-1915 | George E. Russell |
| 1915-1922 | Henry Turner |
| 1922-1932 | Albert Pearson |
| 1932-1935 | Samuel H. Kenworthy |
| 1935-1940 | Charles Mather |
| 1940-1944 | James Power |
| 1944-1946 | Harvey Wilkinson |
| 1946-1950 | Bertha Wilkinson |
| 1950-1956 | Albert Hancox |
| 1956-1960 | Thomas Woodruff |
| 1960 | Samuel H. Lomas |
| 1960-1962 | John Mathieson |
| 1962-1966 | Joseph Beer |
| 1966-1967 | Albert H. Watterson |
| 1967-1969 | William J. Ellis |
| 1969-1970 | Maureen Barclay |
| 1970-1971 | Albert Butterworth |
| Chesters remained owners until 6th December 1971 when it was sold to Free Brew Taverns a director of which Robert Bisson became licensee with the pub reopening after a £50000 refit as the Trap Inn in February 1975. | |
| 1971-1972 | John Davies |
| 1972-1974 | Edward H. Whitelegg |
| 1974 | Margaret White |
The Trap Inn |
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| 1974-1975 | Robert R. W. Bisson |
| 1975 | Michael Brocklehurst |
| 1975 | Paul Ingham |
| 1975-1976 | Robert R. W. Bisson |
| 1976 | Graham Radcliff |
| 1976 | Robert R. W. Bisson |
| 1976-1977 | Thomas Grimshaw |
| 1977-1979 | Robert J. Tayor |
| 1979 | Robert J. Taylor & Douglas J. Smith |
| 1979-1982 | Peter Bates |
| In 1982 it was bought by the licensee Gary Mallinder. | |
| 1982-1990 | Gary Mallinder |
| 1990-1994 | Gary Mallinder & Wayne Nuttall |
| 1994-1998 | Beryl Ann Coxon |
| 1998- | John & Sarah Kennedy |
| Post 1999 – The Trap Inn was renamed Market Tavern and Last Orders. It is now The Brook Tavern. | |