The Bridge Inn was tied to Ind Coope & Co. of Burton on Trent over one hundred years ago. It is possible that the Burton brewers obtained the property when they purchased the Northgate Brewery of A.V. Hatton & Co. The Bridge might have previously been a Hatton’s tied house.
The Bridge Inn was the first licensed house as anyone came into the city from the west and ‘was a house where anyone could put up who did not want to drive over the tramlines.’ The compensation authority heard that: ‘closure would inconvenience country people driving into the town with young horses which could not stand the trams.’
Landlords at the Bridge Inn include:
1879 Elizabeth Woolf
1893 F. Selwyn
1902 Robert Hook
1906 Julius Baumann
1907 C. Hancock
1919 Frank R. Selwyn
1927 Mrs Matilda Williams
