This week’s pictures from the past

Friday 20th March 2009, 9:19AM GMT.

The Brewery Inn, Coalport - about 1904 This photo of The Brewery Inn, Coalport, was loaned to us by Eric Clare, of Hampton Fields, Oswestry, who says it was taken in about 1904. He says the lady on the left is Mrs Maria Gough, licensee of the Brewery for 72 years, from 1853 to 1925. She took over the running of the inn following the death of her husband George Gough, whose name is on the sign. The two tall ladies in the centre are her daughters Millie and Becky who, after the inn was sold, lived in Tynsley Terrace, Madeley, until their deaths in the early 1950s. Standing in front of them, he says, is Jenny the cellar maid. The lady to the right is Lucy Mottershead, a niece to Maria, who was visiting the Brewery, prior to her marriage in 1905, and Eric’s grandmother.