COMPLETED ...Station Hotel, Grasslot, Maryport

[heathers]

Can anyone tell me about Station Hotel, Grasslot, Maryport ?  The period I am specifically interested in is c. 1940.  Where was it located,  and does it still exist.

Thanks

Sue

[Geoff-E]

There is a Glasslot Street at the south end of Maryport http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=303492&Y=535759&A=Y&Z=110

Looking at the 1867 map of the same area at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/IndexMapPage2.aspx

there was a Station Inn at the west side of the nearby crossroads.

Is it still there?  I'm not sure http://tinyurl.com/y9d3c4w

[heathers]

Thanks - that has been a great help.  Ive just looked at my 1899 map of Maryport  and can see the letters PH in the same spot.  Id not spotted that before. 

Sue

[bobgraham]

Grasslot is the little village/hamlet on the south side of the bridge over the river ellen southish of Maryport. It's 10 or 15 years since I worked down there but there was a large  white square pub on the west side of of the road to Workington. I can also say that there is no Station Hotel/Inn listed in todays directory. There was an industrial estate in Grasslot on the site of an old pit but it seemed to collapse in the late 80's early 90's when the goverment training centre closed.
bob

[emmsthheight]

Hi Bob & Sue

I guess that would be in the days before they knocked the old station down!  I'll see if I have any photo's but I wouldn't get your hopes up!

If you were close enough to the right library, you could trawl a few news papers for the time.  There area court records for licences and also loads of stories of events in pubs such as  crimes, postmortems, sales of property, political meetings etc.

We have quite a few stories of the various pubs/hotels the family were involved with in Derby, which ghave come from Newspapers.

Just an idea!  Good hunting!

Emms

[heathers]

We will be in Cumbria in early March,  so will have a closer look at the area. On previous visits we have just driven past,  but some WWII Service records have indicated that the family were at the Station Hotel, albeit for a short period of time.  So - we will try and have a closer look at old maps, directories and papers to see what we can find.  If we could identify the Brewery it belonged to - we may find clues in their records,  although we failed to find anything for the former Miners Arms at Flimby, when we went through the Jennings records at Whitehaven RO.

Sue

[bobgraham]

If I was a betting man I would have said John Peel brewery (wonderful drink until you hit the fresh air at 11 pm and then you fell over!) at Workington (at the top of the hill above the cricket ground and above the closed bridge) or Carlisle State Brewery. I'm having a day off tomorrow so I'll check the directories for you.
bob

[heathers]

Thanks Bob.  The name we are interested in is Jacob Dixon.  His son gave Station Hotel, Grasslot as his parents address when he joined up.

Sue

[acorngen]

Wasnt that the place where I believe Sue Johnstones ancestors lived.  I am trying to recall the first program of the first series of WDYTYA

Rob