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R B Lees Coaching Inn
« on: Monday 29 July 24 18:32 BST (UK) »
Trying to identify a mystery photo. The sign is chopped off but quite possibly it's LEES and pretty sure it's somewhere in Lancs. Has anyone heard of an R B Lees in this context of a coaching inn or off-sales booze attached to it? Photo is very early 1900s as there is hand written reference to the coach driver being Joe Meakin, Sept 1902. Hoping to identify the inn and see if it is still there.

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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 July 24 18:41 BST (UK) »
Lancashire is a big county.  Did you inherit the photo from a relative?  If so - whereabouts in Lancs were they from?

If not - why do you think it is Lancs?
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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 07:06 BST (UK) »
Sorry, just to be clear it's a postcard mystery rather than family tree. I have no connection to the area. Lees is very highly concentrated in Lancs - 40% of all UK Lees were in Lancs at the 1891 census, and Yates was also founded in Lancs in 1884. That's why I think the photo is from the area. Just trying to tap into local knowledge.

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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 08:09 BST (UK) »
Is there a connection to J W Lees Brewery?
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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 10:27 BST (UK) »
I'm beginning to think it may actually have been J W Lees but for some reason the photograph has been altered at some time for some reason. Why that would be done though is beyond me. I even thought it might be the Spring Inn, Broad Lane, Rochdale which is still there and a J W Lees property. R B Lees is not really getting me anything connected to inns, hotels, brewers, etc.

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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 11:12 BST (UK) »
There is a Joseph Meakin b 1875 in Stockport in 1901.

I can't make out his occupation fully, but it seems to be  "Coach something", I think.
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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 11:25 BST (UK) »
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There is a Joseph Meakin b 1875 in Stockport in 1901.

I can't make out his occupation fully, but it seems to be  "Coach something", I think

Looks like "coach wharfman". 
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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 12:06 BST (UK) »
I think it could be Lee rather than Lees. If the second line ends at Stout and the third line ends at Tobacco, there isn't really room for an additional letter after Lee.

Something like this:
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Re: R B Lees Coaching Inn
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 30 July 24 12:14 BST (UK) »
Looking at Richard Barker Lee who appears to have been the licensee of several pubs in the Morecambe area in the early 1900s.
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