Tattershall

Historic Hotels, Inns and Pubs of Tattershall

Introduction

Hotels, Inns and Pubs often provided rooms for travellers. They were often constructed:

• On coach routes, especially at cross roads and on heavily travelled "main" routes.
• Where railways were being built or at a railway terminus. These were often owned by the railway owner or an investor and may have held railway surveyors, supervisors, engineers, etc. Typically they did NOT hold the navvies or rail layers. Those men lived either in tents or other temporary shelters near their work places.
• Where canals were being opened or harbours were being improved. This could include building a seawall to hold back the ocean and the development of a place for people to spend holidays.
• Where a spa or bathhouse was being built or developed.

The value to the family historian occurs when you can find someone from your family who is "missing" from home in the census, or who has been hired from their parish to work as a maid or server in such an establishment. You will find some people worked for years at one place, only to be "promoted" by moving to another such establishment.

If you have any additional history on these Public Houses, Inns and Hotels, I will be pleased to add it or a link to it.

The Black Bull

This establishment was opened before 1842. There is no mention of it in later Directories. Here is the name associated with the Inn in that year:

Jane FOWLER was born in Lincolnshire circa 1781. She is age 60 in the 1841 census.

The Black Horse P. H., 17 High St.

The Black Horse apparently opened before 1842.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Black Horse on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.

Here are the names associated with the Black Horse Inn in different years:

The Black Horse in the 1881 census:

R.G. 11 / 3252 folio 6

Relationship	Name	Sex	Age	Where born
head	Joseph RICHARDSON	M	43	Tattershall, Lincolnshire
wife	Elizabeth RICHARDSON	F	53	Thimbleby, Lincolnshire
	Samuel BURT	M	22	Billinghay, Lincolnshire

The Blue Bell Inn, Thorpe Road, Tattershall Thorpe

The Inn tells us that it has been around since 1257, but I could find no mention of it in the old Directories.

The Blue Bell Inn welcomes travelers. Here are two photographs of the inn provided by Richard Short, of Nottingham (who retains the copyright):

The Bridge Inn, Bridge Foot

This establishment was opened before 1842. There is no mention of it in later Directories. Here is the name associated with the Inn in that year:

The Crown

This establishment was opened before 1842. There is no mention of it in later Directories. Here is the name associated with the Inn in that year:

The Fortescue Arms Hotel, 34 Market Place

The Fortescue Arms apparently opened before 1841.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Fortescue Arms on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.

Here are the names associated with the Black Horse Inn in different years:

Alfred BARRATT comes from an inn-keeping family in Helpringham, LIN.

The Temperence Hotel

This establishment was opened before 1900. There is no mention of it in earlier or later Directories. Here is the name associated with the Inn in that year:

We believe that Charlotte GIBSON was born in Tattershall circa 1865.

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