"Navigation Hotel" Runcorn

[frankray]

I take it this is the 'Navigation' by the canal?  I there a definitive history of the area.  I understand there was a brewery close by, and it was the 'local' for Capt Smith of Titanic fame who moored up his narrow boat there from time to time.
Thanks  Ray.

[stanmapstone]

The "Navigation Inn" is the one by the canal beside Delph Bridge.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

What date was the brewery supposed to be close by?

Stan

[jangeo]

On the 1905 Runcorn map it shows a brewery behind the Navigation Hotel, but no name is given.
Canal Street is the address

Geoff W

[stanmapstone]

There is no brewery listed in Runcorn in the 1902 Directory. Perhaps you could contact the Runcorn & Dist. Historical Society, http://www.runcornhistsoc.org.uk/information_request.html

Stan

[jangeo]

If you type in ' A Century of Cheshire Brewers' this will take you to a page that lists out the towns for cheshire. Scroll to Runcorn you will see Bass Charington,if you read that it shows  A Thomas Jones-Navigation Brewery and also mentions the Captain of the Titanic. It looks as though the business did not start till around 1906

Geoff W

[stanmapstone]

Thomas Jones, Navigation Brewery, Canal Street. Home brew house closed 1906. As it was just a "Home Brew House" that is probably why it is not in the directory.

Stan

[jangeo]

Have just been looking at two trade directories they show that Thomas Jones was the publican of the Navigation, I cannot find any refernec to the brewery, although the site that I picked up on did have him as a brewer. He must have been an upstanding resident of Runcorn for the trade directories show a Thomas Jones as a councillor, the later directory gives his ward as Mersey, which I think the Navigation would have been in

Geoff W

[stanmapstone]

In the 1901 Census Thomas Jones is a Spirit Merchant, employer, the household was
Thomas Jones     47
Ada Jones    37
Nora Jones    11
Edward J Smith    50 visitor
Sarah E Smith    39 visitor
Helen M Smith    2 visitor
Eliza A Carroll    18 servant


Stan