Property: 23 Alcester Street ln year: 1861

Occupant: Joseph Baines aged:  30  Born:  Norwich

Trade: Cabinet Maker & Publican –

Notes: Wife Elizabeth (29) Milliner plus 3 children + 1 servant at home. On the 1871 census they lived in Unicorn Hill, Redditch. In the 1870 Kelly’s Directory Joseph was classed as Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, Unicorn Hill, Redditch. (according to “Old Redditch Pubs” by Alan Foxall, Joseph advertised in 1861 stating that he was at the “Queens Head” Alcester Street but no other evidence of there being such a Public House has been found) Joseph of Bromsgrove Road, Redditch, died 16th March 1901.

Source: JC – Census + AF