Property: 155 Evesham Street ln year: 1901

Occupant: Arthur L. Smith aged:  39  Born:  Glos.

Trade: Inn Keeper Pub –

Notes: Wife Nellie (31) plus 3 children + Nellie’s sister at home. Arthur was the licensee 1893-1906. (On the 1901 census the enumerator stopped at this house in Evesham Street and it was classed as End of Central Ward) On the 1911 census they lived in Monmouthshire. In the 1900 Kelly’s Directory there was an entry for Druids U.O. Redditch, Equalized District:-Hope to Prosper Lodge, No. 1259, Plough & Harrow Hotel, Loyal Hearts of Oak Lodge, No, 1709, Vine Inn; Royal Arch Chapter, Plough & Harrow Hotel (W. H. Gregory, secretary of the 3 lodges)

Source: JC – Census + AF