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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Google Streetview
The Robin Hood was situated at 44 Sincil Street. This beerhouse closed in 1907 and is now in retail use.
43 and 44 Sincil street Lincoln Part of a terrace of seven properties, originally “back-to-backs” with rear units part of Henleys Yard. Previously Sincil Street was Elder Lane, it had no houses on it in 1817 but by 1826 there were 63 including 38 to 44. It changed to Sincil Street about 1830 (I can’t find Elder or Sincil in 1828 & 1835 directories). 43 and 44 were two of a number of properties owned by a John Hawson in 1851 and rented out. In the 1870s-80s the party walls between the front and rear back-to-backs were knocked through. The 1887-88 town plan shows 44 as the Robin Hood public house with the rear “back-to-back” still at 43 as well as 38 and 39. A list of pubs done in 2017 gives 1907 as a closing date for the Robin Hood but another source gives 1905. From directories I find; for No.43; 1841 unable to locate; 1856-1868 John Parkinson painter; 1889 unable to locate; 1872-1901 not listed, did it become part of the Robin Hood Inn?; (In 1910 the tax book shows 43 & 44 owned by ‘Executors of T Cooling”); 1913 blank entry; 1905 Walter Speed, fried fish dealer; 1909 Mrs Jamima Marshal, fruiterer; 1913 Arthur Fairchild, painter; 1915 Walter Speed, fried fish dealer; 1919 Joseph L Pompa/Pampa, confectioner; 1946-1958 Frank Harwood Bates, newsagents; 1965-1983 Mrs. M. A. Bates newsagents; for No.44; 1841 Francis Asman beer retailer; 1856 Catherine Asman beer retailer; 1857-1889 Joseph Hickingbotham beer retailer; 1894-1905 Robin Hood Inn, Charles Bristow (beer retailer in 1905); 1913-1965 Richard Handley & Son, butchers (leasehold documents in 1958 show Albert Samuel Smith, butcher as leaseholder). A photograph in 1974 shows it is still the butchers but by a 1983 paving plan it is marked as ‘Morris’s’. From the 1990s many of the properties on Sincil Street were purchased by Lincolnshire Co-op. More recently the following business are listed at the shops with dates known to be there; No.43; Boarded up? (1999); Inkbox (2009); A J Hairdressers (2011); M& R Hairdressing (2017); Emenar (2015-2021); No.44; Picture Creation (looked closed 1999); Viva Coffee Shop (2009); Empty (June 2018); Café 44 (2011-2017); Cotton On (2019).
Steve Turner  (January 2022)
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Thomas Sylvester, publican, 1884-1907	Picture source: Glen Joned