Jennings Pubs from 1800s - Please help to record our local pub history

When Cockermouth’s Jennings brewery closed the register of the pubs that Jennings had owned was seen at Kirkgate Heritage group so before it was deposited in the Archives I took these quick photos of the pages.  If anyone would like to do practical research eg type the pages, visit the pubs to photo and sample them, then please get in touch.  There are 118 pages that I photographed and I have made the titles of each page from a rough description of the register entry.  Some register entries are from 1889 and some refer to ground rents from the 1700s.  There is a wealth of information in so many ways, for example let your imagination run with The Odfellows Arms with a Hen Run … If anyone wants to tour the hostelries for historic conviviality then perhaps organise an appropriate social research group with us at Kirkgate or U3A or even Civic Trust … or just go and enjoy yourself with history!  Please send photos and articles for this online local history publication to the site editor.  

Pages from Jennings register of properties, these are 42 of 118 pages available

Page 001 Jennings Properties and Free or Quit Rents Manorial Incidents Tithe Redemption Easements and Wayleaves Ground Rents
Page 001 Jennings Properties Index of names and page numbers
Page 002 Jennings Properties Brewery Vinegar Hill Malt House 1000 years
Page 003 Jennings Properties Offices Castle Tannery Cottage in Brewery Lane Workshops Warehouses Garages 1000 years
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Page 003 right
Page 004 Land near Wyndham Row Cockermouth 1930 75
Page 005 Anchor Inn Challoner Street Globe lane liable to keep road repaired on south side 1885 500
Page 006 Blue Bell Inn Main Street Cockermouth hold for 1000 years from 1754 in 1888 1250
Page 007 Bowling Green Inn and Cottages and Land St Helens Street Cockermouth for 999 years 1922 425
Page 008 Bush Hotel with stables and haylofts Main Street Cockermouth 1889 1525
Page 009 Castlegate Vaults House Shop Cottages Old Hall Cockermouth Dec 1923 2500 from Official Receiver in Bankruptcy
Page 010 Crown and Mitre Inn with granary stables outbuildings and gardens St Helens Street Cockermouth 1890 650
Page 011 Grey Goat Inn 1928 550 St Helens Streeet Cockermouth rates 49 pa
Page 012 Hope and Anchor Inn at Sullart St and house 3 Crown Street 1890 1400
Page 013 Huntsman Hotel cottages stables Cockermouth 1890 1450 with the use of the pump in the yard were customary of Earl of Egremont
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Page 014 Old Hall Inn Market Place Cockemouth now 2 houses and a garage with yard stables outbuildings and offices 1923 from Receiver in Bankruptcy 2500
Page 015 Railway Hotel and House Shop 26 Crown Street Cockermouth 1918 1750
Page 016 Sun Inn 1889 1300 with stables barns byres warehouses haylofts yards outoffices and land
Page 017 Swan Inn and cottage 54 56 Kirkgate Cockermouth 1889 580 999 years from 1743 20pa
Page 018 Tithe Barn Hotel South Street Station Street Cockermouth 1891 2225
Page 019 Shares in the Cockermouth New Market Company 1929
Page 020 Lyons Arms Inn Duke Street Cleator Moor now private house 1906 650
Page 021 Wheat Sheaf Inn Cleator Moor 1896
Page 022 Globe Inn Egremont 1889 2577 stables and back buildings
Page 023 Ship Launch Inn and 3 Cottages 69 71 North Road Egremont 128 yards by railway station 7565 1932
Page 024 Galloping Horse Inn stables yard gardens hayloft outbuildings garage High Harrington 1927 1200
Page 025 Gardiners Arms Inn Christian Street Curwen St Teapot Alley Harrington 1900 605
Page 026 Golden Lion Inn Harrington 1889 675
Page 027 Station Hotel stable and land with back passage to Church Road and building land Harrington Harbour 1889 1730
Page 028 Bank Tavern Inn and 3 Cottages Main Street Keswick 1895 1250 Cottage 205
Page 029 Black Lion Inn and 2 Cottages Longheads Main Street Keswick 1892 1000
Page 032 Farmers Arms Inn Portinscale Keswick with the farmers shop and stable adjoining and the garden behind 1894 500
Page 033 Kings Arms Inn and Buildings washouse stables coachhouses cottages assembly room yard orchard garden Keswick 1889 2060
Page 034 Lake Road Vaults or Board Inn and 9 Cottages Keswick part of Faulders Brewery voluntary liquidation 1946 19000
Page 035 Oddfellows Arms Inn with Hall Smithy Hen Run part of Faulders Brewery voluntary liquidation 1946 19000
Page 036 Pheasant Inn garage stable garden and 3 Cottages Crosthwaite Keswick part of Faulders Brewery voluntary liquidation 1946 19000
Page 037 The Twa Dogs Inn and 3 Cottage stable and premises Brigham Row Keswick SE of the Turnpicke Road to Penrith 1891 1400
Page 038 Crown Inn formerly called Royal Oak siz yards Senhouse Street Maryport brewhouse and outbuildings 1881 1550
Page 039 6 Cottages 4 6 King Street 1 2 3 4 Barnes Yard King Street all adjoining Kings Arms Inn Maryport 1920 200
Page 040 Hope and Anchor Inn North Quay is now 4 cottages Maryport 1898 1000
Page 041 Kings Arms Inn with cellar and premises beneath King Street Maryport with right of way in adjoining yard 1883 1500
Page 042 The Anchor Vaults Queen Street Market Place Whitehaven part of bankruptcy of William Armstrong 1933 7565

Jennings was Cockermouth’s local brewery and we remember the aroma that wafted over the town when a new brew was being prepared.  Times move on and the popularity of its excellent product required a bigger operation.  The iconic buildings remain with an uncertain future.  There is irony in the brewery, no longer used, nestling under the crumbling walls of Cockermouth Castle.

Jennings owned many public houses and the new owner, xxx, kindly gave us permission to make the most of their register of properties before it is deposited in public archives.

There is a project waiting for someone – transcribe the written record and visit the locations and write and photograph the current situation of our wonderful Jennings heritage of pubs.

Please send your contributions to the editor of this site – see the About section.

 

These are a few of the 118 pages that I photographed from  our local breweryJennings property register properwere taken from