Sun Inn
The Sun Inn was formerly a beer house called the Cutter Foam first licensed in the 1860s. It burnt down in the early hours of 26th June 1873, the fire being discovered by a fisherman named Swaine who happened to be passing. Fortunately, the occupants were rescued without injury, however the fire was too severe for the fire brigade under the command of Captain Glenister, the building burning down to the ground. The two adjoining buildings which were at one point considered to be at risk were saved.[1]
The pub was rebuilt and reopened as the Sun Inn in 1876.
In 1878 Breeds Brewery, to whom the pub was tied, would not transfer the licence to a landlord who had been in situ for 12 months, ‘because he had not conducted business in a proper manner’. The landlord in his defence said: “The house was a brothel before I took over.”. Stephen Blundell became the landlord in 1880[2]
In 1939 licensee J M Walker acted as unpaid Air Raid Warden for the area but he had gone by 1944 when a London bus driver applied for the licence. He left his job, a National Service Employment, without permission and in court said that after his wife died running a household was too much to cope with. He moved to Hastings, and finding the Sun Inn needed a landlord, he applied. His story was reported as ‘Busman gets a place in the Sun’.
The license changed hands again in 1945, when Stephen Charles Sherwood took over from Percy Charles Standing[3]
Tackleway is a narrow street and delivery lorries found access difficult. Also it was proposed to redevelop the area under the Holford Plan in the 1960s. For these two reasons it closed in 1970.[4] John Cornelius was the licensee around the time of the pub's closure.
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1873 Map All Saints Street and Tackleway
Tackleway-Old-Town.-1912.
Tackleway.-1915.
References & Notes
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 28 June 1873 pg. 3
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 8 May 1880 pg. 6
- ↑ Hastings & St Leonards Observer 6 January 1945 pg. 2
- ↑ Hastings Pub History
