Property: 115 Evesham Street ln year: 1861

Occupant: David Houghton aged:  56  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Beerhouse Keeper –

Notes: Wife Elizabeth (54) Needle Straightener plus 2 working sons at home. David was the licensee of the “Old Briton” 1860-1880. Which was at 115 Evesham Street. On the 1851 census they lived in Beoley Street and David was a Brickmaker. At the same address on the 1871 census. In the 1861 Slater’s Directory of Worcestershire David was classed as Beer Retailer. In the Jones’s 1865 Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire it stated that David lived in Evesham Street. In the 1870 & 1872 Kelly’s Directory David was Beer Retailer, Evesham Street.

Source: JC – Census + AF