Hi Geoff,
I haven’t managed to find a name or exact dates for the Beer House I think Richard Spreag might have been landlord of before moving to become a “beer retailer” on the junction of Albert Street and St Paul’s Road, where the Clippers Arms was recorded on the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map. But I do know it wasn’t there in Rose & Crown Passage in 1844 – that year’s Harper’s Directory gives an in-order listing which runs:
“1. Miller Leonard, eating house
2. Toy Sarah
3. Stephen George, labourer
4. Stanley Thomas, eating house
6. Perry William, hairdresser
7. Adams William, labourer
Chapman Joseph, Rose & Crown
Lewis’s marble works”
So the Beer House must have come after 1844 but by 1847, when R. Spreag is recorded in the Hunt & Co. Directory as being a “Beer Retailer” in Rose & Crown Passage; which also lists Joseph Chapman as landlord of the Rose & Crown (under “Inns & Public Houses”). There are also two names listed under “Eating House Keepers” in Rose & Crown Passage – both the same as in the 1844 Harper’s Directory, Thomas Miller and Thomas Stanley.
I did find a death notification for Richard Spreag in the 22 April 1850 Cheltenham Journal & Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette which reported that he died on 16 April at 14 Hamilton-place after a short illness.
Apparently the surname was sometimes spelt Sprague.
Cheers,
Alan Jones
Hi Geoff,
You know I said the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map had a Public House marked adjoining the Rose and Crown to the north, which was run by the Spreag family prior to their moving to 14 Hamilton Place (later home of the Albert Arms), and that the beerhouse there was marked on the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map as The Clippers Arms? Well, it appears that was what it was called when the Spreag’s ran it in Rose and Crown Passage too. There is a death notice in the Cheltenham Chronicle of Thursday 30 November 1848 for Sarah Ann Spreag aged 22 at the Clippers Arms Rose and Crown passage.
I don’t know if it changed names after the Spreag’s moved to 14 Hamilton Place.
Cheers,
Alan