The Ship Pub in Colne, when did it disappear?

[Keith Sherwood]

Can anyone tell me when The Ship in Colne ceased to exist  as a pub or beerhouse?  It was there in the High Street in 1871, when a George Butcher was the publican.
Many thanks,
Keith

[maddys52]

Still there in 1891 :
"the Ship, Colne, from Sarah Pomfret to James Harrup"
Friday,  June 19, 1891, Stamford Mercury

[Keith Sherwood]

Maddys52,
Oh, good, still going strong 20 years later.  Today, as far as I know, having had a pint quite recently in its beer garden, there is only the very nice Green Man in the village.  I cannot discover whether this is one and the same, it's certainly more than old enough to have been there in 1871 and beyond.
Thanks very much for spending the time to look for me...
Keith

[maddys52]

Wish we could get to the pub - not allowed here in Sydney, Australia at the moment!

Afraid the Ship was a different inn - in the same item about license transfers just before the Ship is :
"The Green Man, Colne, from Robt. Jessup to Thos. Darwood"

[Keith Sherwood]

Maddys52,
Very sorry to hear about your present Lockdown and therefore the unrequited thirst for a pint.  We've had plenty of that recently here, and a certain nervousness even now amongst the more vulnerable still exists of course, if entering a pub.  Beer gardens have thrived through the warmer summer months, but now autumn approaches...
Thanks very much for confirming that The Ship and The Green Man were not indeed one and the same.  The Ship must have sailed into the sunset of long lost but not forgotten public houses.
Keith
 

[ThrelfallYorky]

Have you tried using "Google Earth"? I seem to recall you can even select some past years to view?
TY

[Keith Sherwood]

Thanks, ThrelfallYorky,
I'll try giving that a whirl.  Though I have begun now to look at old maps from the area.  Sometimes they just say "Inn", sometimes if you're lucky you get a name. There used to be lots of books on the subject - used to be a man who came, with all kinds of lovely books on pubs and breweries in specific areas and their history, to our local Cambridge Beer Festival each May, but he wasn't there the last time in 2019, and of course the last two have been put paid to by Covid...
Keith

[maddys52]

Found another reference to The Ship, this time in 1898:

"the Ship at Colne, from James Harrup to William Royston"
Peterborough Advertiser, 19 November 1898

[maddys52]

Also, I noticed in the 1891 census that James HARRUP was the son-in-law of Sarah POMFRET, licensee of the Ship.

There is a William ROYSTON on the High St, Colne in 1901, however it doesn't say "the Ship", and he is a gardener's labourer. Not sure if you can read into this that the Pub ceased some time between 1898 and 1901? 

(Being cheeky here - sounds like you could write a good book reviewing the pints in Pubs in your local area!     )