History of the Vine Inn at Trysull in the county of Staffordshire. Research is augmented with photographs, details of licensees, stories of local folklore, census data, newspaper articles and a genealogy connections section for those studying their family history.
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Thomas Yates was the licensee of the Vine Inn at the time of the 1871 census. Other residents of The Green at this time were the gamekeeper John Priest, tailor Thomas Bowker, and the wheelwright Ann Wright. In addition to running the beer house, Thomas Yates also worked as a shoemaker. He was a local man but his wife Elizabeth hailed from Lower Penn. The couple's shoe business was seemingly successful as they employed two men. Thomas Solloway also worked as a shoemaker whilst running the Vine Inn with his wife Charlotte. He had already been living in the locality before taking on the beer house so I wondered if perhaps he had previously been employed by Thomas Yates. Sarah Day was in charge of the beer house in the early 1890's. The Greensforge-born widow was helped by her son John who was also a brewer. Therefore it is possible that the Vine Inn sold homebrewed ales. Also living and working on the premises was daughter Eliza. The Day family had previously kept the Swan Inn at Wombourne.
The publican in charge of the Vine Inn at the turn of the 20th century was the
elderly Enoch Bennett. He was 70 years old in 1900. He kept the
beer house with his
Kingswinford-born wife Elizabeth.
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![Trysull Village Green and School [c.1960]](http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/images/staffordshire/Trysull-Green.jpg "Trysull Village Green and School [c.1960]")
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