Temperance Hotel, Barker Gate, Nottingham 1880s

[hanes teulu]

Directory of Nottingham, 1885
No obvious sign of a Temperance Hotel on Barkergate. Click on > on right of page to see rest of Barkergate
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/338437/rec/2

[hanes teulu]

Directory of Nottingham 1894-1895

Again, no obvious temperance Hotel on Barkergate
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/164535/rec/5

[ValJJJ]

Thanks.  Perhaps it wasn't specifically a temperance hotel, but just a hotel with no alcohol licence.  I'll look at that directory later today.  Shame there's only 1885 as that might have been too early for her to have upped sticks from Calne with her family.

[hanes teulu]

I didn't expect to find "your" Annie in the 1885 Directory - these Directories take time to put together/update. Had hoped it might identify a Temperance Hotel in that locale..

No sign of an hotel on this 1880/81 map of Barker Gate -
West side -   https://maps.nls.uk/view/231277839#zoom=4.7&lat=7664&lon=13443&layers=BT
East side -    https://maps.nls.uk/view/231277842#zoom=3.7&lat=7994&lon=2043&layers=BT

I also "walked" Barker Gate on the 1881 Census - nothing to identify a possible Temperance Hotel

[ValJJJ]

Thanks for looking further.  I can see a few references to pubs in Barkergate in newspaper archives so I wonder if a licensee left one, and it naturally evolved into a temperance establishment?  I'll do some delving this evening. 

I haven't found any newspaper articles about a new temperance hotel in Nottingham in the 1880s at all, nor about an existing one in Bakergate. Possibly the newspaper printed the wrong street?

[ValJJJ]

Benjamin Hartley Fairbrother was a boarder in Stockport in the 1881 census, age 38, unmarried, born Warrington, financial agent and accountant.

Wonder what 'gained ascendancy over' meant in relation to the daughter?

I've searched the 1881 and 1891 Nottingham census with the keyword 'temperance' for address or occupation but only found a temperance hotel at Houndsgate (that also pops up in newspaper articles) and Westgate.

[ValJJJ]

He is listed in Lancashire, Manchester & Salford, Slater's Directory Pt 1, 1883 as accountant & financial agent, Levenshulme, Manchester.

[hanes teulu]

Have you checked Nottinghamshire Archives? Their catalogue is on line..

[ValJJJ]

It's on the to-do list.  I probably need to visit to look at electoral rolls and any local directories that haven't been digitised.