On the corner of Quay Street and Red Lane, by the old Healings Mill, there is a brick building that looks as if it might have once been a pub. This, in fact, was the purpose built offices of the milling business and has never traded as a pub. However, before this building was built in the 1930’s the site had been occupied by the Star Inn. The last reference to the Star Inn was in 1879. The Star Inn might have been demolished fifty years or more before the Mill Offices were constructed on the site.
Map Reference: SO 894329
Landlords at the Star Inn include:
1830 William Dewsbury
1856,1868 William Ricketts
1774-1775 Edward Smith
1775-1778 William Smith
1778-1780 Samuel Johns
1780-1785 Edward Smith
1785-1787 John Yeates
1787-1792 John Brown
1792-1794 John Hobbs
1794-1795 Thomas Milton
1795-1796 Nicholas Mann
1796-1803 John New
1803-1808 John Jeynes
1808-1816 Humphrey Brown
1816-1820 John Martin
1820,1823 Hannah Martin (widow)
1841 Thomas Whitehouse
1841-1842 William Hammerton
1842-1843 Thomas Wager
1843,1845 Francis White
1852 William Clayton
1852,1869 William Ricketts
1876 J.H. Thacker
1879 Thomas Davies
