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            Originally built as a row of eight cottages in 1835, two were converted into a beer house in 1860 (including the  green cottage and the premises of Hair Today) by William Bridgewood. The 1861 census lists the building as The Royal Oak beer house.
Sitting on the corner of Manor Court Street (formerly Church Street) and Newcastle Lane (formerly Newcastle Street) in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, this traded as a licensed premises until 1901 (I have seen reference to this date as 1912 but I have taken my date from the dtails set out by the Penkhull History Society), at which time it was owned by Parker's Burslem Brewery.
It was then converted back into domestic dwellings and remained so until 1912 when the building was purchased by Albert Swetnam (I have seen Sweetenham used too) who convereted it into a high class grocery store which he ran until 1955. It was then taken over by the Brunt family who ran the shop as F. and H, Brunt's Village Stores. When they ceased trading the building resumed being used as housing until the late 1990's when the cottage on Newcastle Lane was converted into a hairdressers, which it remains today under the name Hair Today.
At least during its time used as a shop, occupied by the Brunt's, it had a door on the corner of the building, the recessed panel above being used as a sign.
Quite a past for a little corner building, it's a pity the original cottages haven't all survived.
   

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Taken on: April 22, 2019

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