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1. The (Old) Fox Inn, Buttermarket Street.


algy

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c1870. The Fox Inn in need of repair licensee shown as James Hewitt. The Inn later took the commonly used name of "The Olde Fox Inn"

1870sTheOldFoxInninneedofrepairlicenceeJamesHewitt.jpg

 

c1890. The Olde Fox Inn looking better for having been repaired, licensee Elizabeth Earl.

1890sTheOldFoxInnlookingbetterforhavingbeenrepairedlicenseeElizabethEarl.jpg

 

c1900. In 1904 the Olde Fox inn closed it's doors as a public house as it could no longer compete with the the new "Crown & Sceptre" next door, it now housed a tobacconist shop & curiosity shop.

1900sTheFoxInnButtermarketStreet.jpg

 

Not many years remain for The Olde Fox as it was to be dimantled in 1912.

1900sTheCrownSceptreleftButtermarketStreet.jpg

 

It was also home to Charles Lee's "Oyster Stores".

CharlesLeesOysterStores.jpg

 

 

1899-1900FreshoysterssoldfromwhatwasTheOldFoxInn.jpg

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