If you’re interested in the history of Black Country boozers in general then Hitchmough’s Black Country Pubs at www.longpull .co.uk is an incredible piece of research work put together by the late Tony Hitchmough, Gavin Lawson, and Tony’s wife Janet Parker. Janet was of great help in our research and provided some fascinating material and newspaper cuttings to support this project.
Much of the early information about the pub we’ve taken direct from Hitchmough’s entry for the Tavern in the Town. In the list of licensees below we’ve indicated in blue the entries that were already recorded on www.longpull.co.uk, and in red are the names that we’ve been able to add from our research, either by talking to people or from the folder of documents provided by Wolverhampton Archives. Dates marked ‘unknown’ merely show we have no documentary evidence to say who was licensee – the person named before or after those dates may have been licensee then, too. Again, if you know names of any missing licensees or exact dates for people’s tenancies then do get in touch.
Isaac Horton
William Jones
Joseph Lawrence
Harmer & Co
Atkinsons Ltd
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd
Liquor Vaults/The Board
William Jones - 1870
George Mercer 1870–1877
Alfred Linden 1877 – 1884
Unknown 1884 - 1891
John Beattie 1891
Joseph Lawrence 1892 – 1896
Unknown 1896 - 1901
John Beattie 1901 – 1904
Unknown 1904 - 1908
John Thomas 1908
Unknown 1909 - 1911
Mrs. Prudence Holland 1911 – 1912
Styles Willis 1913-1914
Unknown 1915 - 1916
John Beattie 1916 – 1921
Unknown 1922 - 1924
The Shakespeare
Unknown 1924 - 1932
George E Lowe 1932
Unknown 1932 - 1939
Edward Hudson 1939
Unknown 1939 onwards
The Bermuda Tavern
William Pugh - 1963
The Tavern
Lloyd Williams c1969 - Find out more
Fred and Barbara Lavender c1971
Pat and Vera Cotter c1974
Tony Stone c1975
John and June Maddox c1976 - Find out more
Sue and Malcolm Guest 1978 - 1980 (Malcolm aka Skip) - Find out more
Mick Waldron c1980
Donald Steven Brown aka Canadian Don c1982 – 16th Dec 1985 - Find out more
Mark Wilson 16th Dec 1985 - 15th October 1986
Donald Joseph Scully 15th October 1986 – 2nd October 1987
Moriarty's
Donald Joseph Scully 2nd October 1987 - 6th November 1987
Peter Sedgwick – 6th November 1987 - 5th Feb 1988
Keith Michael Hayward – 5th Feb 1988 - 9th September 1988
Stuart Eric Daniels 9th September 1988 onwards