Topic
Topic ID 3865
16/10/2008 by MoJo
Wine shop next to Corn Exchange
Has there ever been a time when these premises weren't a wine shop/off license?
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Reply ID 55968
16/10/2008 by Marilyn
Yes but I will have to get my books out to remember what it was, have a feeling it was a pub something like the 6 bells, just can't exactly remember................I am sure somone will beat me to it though.
Reply ID 55975
16/10/2008 by Deveraux
There's photo in the gallery on this page
http://www.hertford.net/galleries/past/
Which says that The Cross Keys Inn, next to the Corn Excghange in Fore Street, was pulled down in 1860
Reply ID 55980
16/10/2008 by MoJo
I think that was the other side of the Corn Exchange, every book I've looked at seemed to suggest that the shop to the right of the CE has always been a wine shop.
Wilson was one name that kept cropping up. I brought this up only out of passing interest, but if I'm right that shop holds some kind of record.
Reply ID 55994
17/10/2008 by Marilyn
The Cross Keys that was it.....................it was the same side but obviously pulled down shortly after the Corn Exchange was built so the shop is probably what replaced it, could well have been a wine shop ever since
When I get chance I will go back through the censuses and see what they say, I know the Reindeer /Hooden Horse/ Hillside has been a pub for a similar length of time until it recently closed.
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