9 Beach Street and 37 Seven Star Street

Once the "Seven Stars Inn" and then the "Admiral", this name appertained from 1897. The sinking of the Brady and the Simpson pits at Shakespeare Colliery had begun the previous year. Perhaps the miners lodged here. It had been a lodging house in the past. I don't know if it was still so employed.

There were entrances from the two streets and its neighbour was the "Deal Cutter". Redevelopment brought about its closure on 31 December 1909 and 1912 saw a closure notice on the house itself. The street properties all disappeared shortly afterwards. Those houses in turn disappeared in the early 1970's with little prospect of residential property ever returning. The street name is perpetuated however by the Beach Street entrance to the Western docks.

LICENSEE LIST

BARRETT George 1899

TUSON A. 1901

WHITE Lionel 1901

RANSHAW T. C. 1901 end

WILSON H. P. or G. 1903-6 end

MUMMERY J. 1906-9

From the Kelley's Directory 1899