karenlee
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Hi
I am trying to find out as much information as possible regarding this hotel. I know that it was run by Edward Gerrard SHAW in 1826, as he took out Insurance with The Sun Fire Office.
I was wondering what was at this address now?
With Thanks
Karenlee
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Wow, so fast and so much information. Many many thanks to you ShaunJ. You gotta love Roots, so many people with so much knowledge.
Hannah SHAW was the wife of Edward Gerrard SHAW.
Karenlee
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ShaunJ
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Kevan's excellent London Pubs site has this census data for the Constitution:
1861/James Pearce/Licensed Victualler/40/Buckinghamshire/Census ****
1861/Caroline Pearce/Wife/38/St James, Middlesex/Census
1861/Charles Pearce/Son/15/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1861/George H Pearce/Son/4/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1861/Jamesd Harris/Waiter/36/Dalston, Middlesex/Census
1861/Emma Thompson/Cook/20/Weston, Herts/Census
1871/William E Jackson/Licensed Victualler/27/Leicester/Census ****
1871/Annie M Jackson/Wife/42/Berkeley, Gloucester/Census
1871/Albert R Boru/Son, Assistant/22/London, Middlesex/Census
1871/Elizabeth S Boru/Daughter/15/London, Middlesex/Census
1871/Jemima Pike/General Servant/33/Mona, Leicestershire/Census
1871/Robert Goolde/Potman/29/Hockam, Norfolk/Census
http://londonpublichouse.com/LondonPubs/CoventGarden/Constitution.shtml
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Angell - Norfolk/Cambridgeshire c.1780
Bale - Rotherhithe 1820's
Bradbury - Derby/Nottingham
Folder - Westmorland
Gale - Lymington/Rotherhithe 1780-1820's
Jones - Liverpool - c.1805 - Whitesmith
Grey - Llangwillog - c.1820
McCrickard c.1825 Ireland
Devine c. 1835 Dublin
Crane - Liverpool c.1805
Thornton - Liverpool c.1805
Oliver - Lambeth 1800's
Kendrick - London - c.1775
Hollis - Northampton - 1774
Potter - Leicester - c.1775
Cresswell - c 1780
Wingod - London
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ShaunJ
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Apparently the Constitution was renowned for its peerless punch (try Googling Constitution 32 Bedford Street).
Here's the story on the 1880's redevelopment:
Nos. 31 and 32 Bedford Street
This building was erected in 1885 under a Bedford building lease for eighty years granted to John Clemence of Duke Street, Adelphi, gentleman (elsewhere described as builder). The first occupants of the upper floors (from 1886) were the Institute of Builders (now the Institute of Building), the Central Association of Master Builders of London (later the London Master Builders' Association, and now the London Region of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers) and the Builders' Accident Insurance Company. The last still occupies part of the premises. The ground floor was occupied by Macmillan and Company, publishers, from 1887. It is not known which architect, if any, was employed. (ref. 67) <The joint architects were Charles Jones of Ebury Street and Frank Clemence of Duke Street; the builder (and owner) was John Clemence.>
The red brick and terra-cotta front of this building is elaborately detailed in a florid Flemish Renaissance style. Four storeys high, it is divided by pilasters into two bays, with a large three-light window to each storey above the ground-floor shop front, and it is finished with two scrollsided and pedimented gables
From: 'Bedford Street and Chandos Place Area: Bedford Street', Survey of London: volume 36: Covent Garden (1970), pp. 253-263. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46128. Date accessed: 25 November 2007.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46128
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Angell - Norfolk/Cambridgeshire c.1780
Bale - Rotherhithe 1820's
Bradbury - Derby/Nottingham
Folder - Westmorland
Gale - Lymington/Rotherhithe 1780-1820's
Jones - Liverpool - c.1805 - Whitesmith
Grey - Llangwillog - c.1820
McCrickard c.1825 Ireland
Devine c. 1835 Dublin
Crane - Liverpool c.1805
Thornton - Liverpool c.1805
Oliver - Lambeth 1800's
Kendrick - London - c.1775
Hollis - Northampton - 1774
Potter - Leicester - c.1775
Cresswell - c 1780
Wingod - London
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karenlee
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Once again, my grateful thanks for all this wonderful information. I can now put some worthwhile facts about the SHAW family's hotel in my chapter on them.
Karenlee
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