Milltown, Off Highstreet East, Glossop,
SK13 8PX, High Peak, Derbyshire.
Prince of Wales Inn Page
This Inn has been the center of the Mill town/ Mill Street community since 1852
History
Built in 1852 by William Kelsail a saddler of Old Glossop the first mention of a beer house is an advert in a Glossop Record local paper in June 1863 which stated that “Decima Hall was selling up at the Spinners Arms, Milltown and leaving the country”.
John Booth took up the offer and moved down from the Drover’s Arms in 1864. In the 1871 Census he was also described as a grocer with the pub now called the Price of Wales, having possibly changes in 1964 when John Booth moved in following the marriage of the Prince of Wales. In a Morris Commercial Directory for 1878 John was also a wholesale agent for George Robert Clayton a brewer of Salford. In 1880 he unsuccessfully applied for an Ales house licence but remained licensee until 1892. He had bought the pub from William Kelshaw in 1877 and sold it to Openshaw Brewery in 1903 who took out a new 999 year lease in 1921.
It remained a beer house until 1960 when a Full Licence was obtained, as with other Openshaw pubs it eventually became a Bass house. It was sold by Bass in 1982 to the Prince of Wales Partnership one of whose members, Arthur Banks took out the Licence followed a month later by David Hughes. It was bought by Marston Thomas and Evershed in 1984 who in 1986 gave it a complete refurbishment with provision of the dining room and function room upstairs for 40 people.
This information was obtained from "History in a Pint Pot by a school friend David Field" and permision to publish it is being sort from the Glossop Historical Society.
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