New Inn

 

Name	New Inn (known as Bottom 'oil)
Address	18 Elland Road, Churwell, Leeds LS27 7SS
Built	?
Demolished	No
Notes	F: Baines 1830. It takes its name from the turnpike road built in the late 18th century, this is the Leeds to Elland Road. The New Inn was a transfer from the Bull and chain, formerly the Boars Head, an old coaching House on the Roman Road near Granny Farm (R.Dennis). One landlord was John Charles the famous Leeds United, Juventus and Wales footballer

New Inn (known as the Bottom ‘oil), 18 Elland Road, Churwell, Leeds LS27 7SS

The pub is still open

According to R. Dennis: 

The New Inn, takes its name from the turnpike road built in the late 18th century, this is the Leeds to Elland road; it cuts across the Roman road at the entrance to Millshaw end, always known as the Churwell Bar, the other beyond the Commercial Inn, where the new road met the continuing old road.

The New Inn was a transfer from the “Bull and Chain” formerly the “Boars Head” a coaching house on the Old Roman Road near Granny Farm.  A right of way can still be seen linking the two sites.

It was at the New Inn, that William Chapman, the landlord, befriended Ceres Jackson, the famous trumpeter, who toured America with the famous Black Dyke Band at the turn of the century (19th).  He was a member of the Churwell Brass Band and the Leeds Grand Theatre Orchestra under Sidney Jones of “San Toy” fame  (a Chinese musical comedy)

A separate unattributed statement provides additional information and states that: “ The Boars Head, on Old road was situate to Primrose Walk, familiar to many as the Sparrow Barracks.  Stagecoaches made a detour from here through the Old Fold past the Manor then on to Manor Farm & Cottingley, Millshaw, Beeston and Leeds.

One landlord was John Charles the famous Leeds United, Juventus and Wales footballer

Reference to the pub appears in F:Baines 1830

The pub is not named on the 1854 6in. Ordnance survey map

Rod Kaye, a pub historian, has provided the following information about the licensees of the pub:

18?? to 1826 George Illingworth

1830 to 1834 Samuel Glover Butcher

1841 to 1842 Benjamin Green Myers

184? to 1847   Mary Myers

184? to 1848 Samuel Richardson

1853 to 1853 William Marshall

1853 to 185? William Fisher

185? to 1857   T. Fisher

1861 to 186? Abraham Firth

1864 to 1866 Eliza Firth

186? to 1868 Stephen Whaley

1869 to 1873   Mark Barker

187? to 1875 William Slater

187? to 1877   Harrison Groves

1878 to 18?? Stephen Whaley

1880 to 1880 Joseph Wilson (Went to Royal Hotel, Morley)

188? to 1889 Joseph Chapman

1889 to 1895 Eliza Chapman

1895 to 1899 John Edward Chapman

1899 to 1903 Samuel Ridyard

1903 to 1908 Joseph Horner (Died)

1908 to 1916 Harry Farnell Shaw

1916 to 1923 Benjamin Spencer (Senior)

1923 to 1928  Benjamin Spencer (Junior)

1928 to 1930 Thomas Armstrong

1930 to 1931 Charles Henry Millward

1931 to 1935 Robert Stead

1935 to 1941 George William Wade

1941 to 1942 Rowland Watson

1942 to 1942 Charles Emsley

1942 to 1944 Mary Emsley

1944 to 1945 Richard Whelan

1945 to 1950 Clement O Ritson

1950 to 1954 Walter Banks

1954 to 1961 Spencer Green

1961 to 1962 Peter Cromack

1963 to 1966 John Alan Dicks

196? to 1968 Charles Shaw

196? To 1969 John Brookes

1971 to 1976 Harry S Fox

1977 to 1981 William John Charles

1983 to 1990 Stephen J Richardson

Details from The Borough of Morley’s Register of Justices Licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor, Publicans No 10 detailing transfer of licences at the Commercial Inn since 1893:  

Holder of Licence Date Transferred to

Eliza Chapman	14.2.98	W.H. Moore
William Henry Moore	11.3.01	J. H. Roystone
John Howard Roystone	1.9.02	W.E.Scott
Wm. Edward Scott	15.5.05	A. Jeffries
Jubal Lister	28.9.03	Wm. S. J. Botheras
Wm. Stewart J. Botheras	6.8.23	Samuel Charlesworth
Samuel Charlesworth	12.11.23	Fenton Barker
Fenton Barker	10.2.30	Thomas Doidge
Thomas Doidge	5.1.31	Mitchell Hellowell
Mitchell Hellowell	21.3123  **	Harold E. Tattersall
Harold Edwin Tattersall	15.3.37	Gertrude Bannister
Gertrude Bannister	25.11.46	C. Scott Bates
Clarence Scott Bates	2.3.53	Dorothy Ann Bates
Dorothy Ann Bates	5.3.57	John Bates
John Bates pending

** Please note the date for the transfer from Mitchell Hellowell to Harold E. Tattersall is how it appears in the register