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Prince of Wales Public House, Darlaston. |
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Steatham Research - Houses 6 Great Croft Street, Darlaston Robert Steatham's early house at Darlaston, was at 6 Great Croft Street. It was then owned by Thomas Steatham (1803-1873), who left it to his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Steatham. Elizabeth Steatham then gifted the house to her sister Sarah Steatham, to use in her lifetime, and after her death, it passed to Henry George Steatham, who in the 1881 census was living at 25 Great Croft Street. Henry George Steatham died Wednesday the 24th June 1931 at 6 Great Croft Street, and was buried on Tuesday the 30th June 1931, at Charlton Cemetery, Greenwich. Unfortunately the whole street is now demolished, and over it is now covered over by the ASDA supermarket (car park). We now see reports of dangerous times living in Great Croft street. Leicestershire Mercury - 27th January 1838. EXPLOSION.—On Monday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, the steam-engine boiler, in the extensive shoe-heel tap and spoon manufactory of Messrs. Carter and Son. in Great Croft Street, Darlaston, exploded with a tremendous noise, which alarmed the whole town, and was heard distinctly at a distance of a mile and a half. The inhabitants in the neigh-bourhood were astounded, and many who had no faith in the millennium pronounced the world to be at an end. The top of the boiler, ten feet diameter and seven feet high, weighing a ton and a half, was torn from its situation and forced upwards at least fifty yards, descending upon an angle of a house in Cock street, one hundred yards from the factory, breaking a small portion of the roof, and from thence, rebounding into the strret, rolling against a house opposite, shattering the doors and window shutters, and forcing the brick jamb a little out of the perpendicular. Had the boiler in the first instance fallen one yard further the house must have been destroyed; or if when in the street it had rolled another half foot, the second house would have been stove in, and must have fallen. Several pieces of cast iron pieces were found in Mr. Rooker's garden and yard in King street, 150 yards from the scene of accident, one of wich knocked, down a fence wall. and so shook the part of the house adjoining as to admit the light through the joints of the brick work. Bricks were plentifully scattered over all the yards and streets within a hundred yards, and yet, most miraculously, not a single individual was in the least injured (except a boy who was oiling a part of the machinery, and who was thrown by the concussion of the wind against the cylinder, and slightly bruised on the back of his head) although the accident occurred in the centre and in the most thickly populated part of the parish. A clump of more than fifty bricks passed directly over the head of a man in the service of Mr. Thomas Bailey, who was putting a horse into a cart, and fell five or six yards beyond him : neither man nor horse were hurt, although both were terribly frightened. Several shops belonging to the Messrs. Carter were partially destroyed, but the damage done is not so extensive as was at first supposed. It may appear incredible that the boiler was forced so high into the air, but several persons who witnessed its ascent affirm that it was considerably higher than the steeple of the church, which is 140 feet. -Staffordshire Examiner. A sign of the times we see... DEATH FROM COLD.—On the arrival of the Dover mail coach at the Elephant and Castle on Saturday morning, an outride passenger, a poor man, was found frozen to death.. Prince of Wales Public House, 36 Walsall Road, Darlaston. Samuel Steatham (1815-1884) was the publican, sold groceries, brewed in his own beer, and was a Gun Lock Manufacturer. He left the Public House to his son Joseph Steatham (1844-1901). Joseph Steatham, was at the Public House in the 1891 census, he then later sold the Public House to Richard Wilson, who then in 1930, sold it for £30,000 to Hanbury Breweries. In 1970s Courage breweries acquired it. It is still standing, only just, as it is now closed and boarded up as though ready for demolition. I can see reported that this former Holden's Public House is now closed, for conversion into flats. This is the only home of any of Robert Steatham's sons, to survive. Steatham.com All Rights Reserved. |
