Angel Yard, Coleshill

[Ray T]

I have a widowed "relly" living alone at "Angel Yard, High Street, Coleshill" in 1881. I assume that the yard was attached to a pub of the same name.

Can anyone identify where the Angel might have been? I didn't even know where Coleshill was until I visited it on Street-view and there are several likely suspects; most of them converted to curry houses. May even be worth a visit!

[ScouseBoy]

Coleshill is a "once important coaching town"      Maybe  Angel Yard  was associated with stables?

[Greenvale]

If it had anything to do with perhaps a coaching inn, then maybe The Angel was a previous name for the old coaching inn now called The Swan which had, the last time I was there, a large yard to the rear where there used to be stabling. I've has a brief look on the internet but can't find any history of the Swan but you may be more successful.

[JenB]

The opposite houses between Birmingham Road and the Swan Hotel are chiefly 18th-century buildings. No. 68 at the corner is the Green Man Inn. No. 74 was the Angel Hotel and had a wide covered gateway, now walled up except for a narrow passage-way. There are long parallel wings behind and other outbuildings; one that crosses the courtyard was once used as a Roman Catholic Chapel. Through it is a wide covered gateway through which coaches entered the yard from the road at the rear (Parkfield Road).
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp47-57

[JenB]

Based on the description above I suspect this is where The Angel was, with the yard (now called Angel Mews) through the gateway http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i89/ (hope link works)

[keyboard86]

Hi the Angel yard rellie could be the John Linforth b 1819 on RG11/3052/58/12 at Schedule number 82 on same page at 76 looks to be an Inn of some description.
Although JenB seems to have a likely candidate!
Keyboard86

[JenB]

The Angel is marked 'Inn' on this map, and you can see the open yard surrounded by buildings behind it/  http://maps.nls.uk/view/115633437#zoom=5&lat=9821&lon=11472&layers=BT

[Ray T]

Thanks everybody. Particularly to JenB, the Angel Hotel was clearly at No.74 High Street and I can see it on the 25 inch map as you suggest.

My "relly" was actually Susan Jakeman (one above John Linforth) who had been widowed from her husband Samuel sometime during the previous decade. She gives her occupation as "Charwoman" so, in all probability, she worked at the hotel.

R

[keyboard86]

Hi I am in agreement, but was the Angel Hotel before or after Angel Yard in that 1881?
Keyboard86