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This property sits on
the corner of High Pavement and Station Street, and was described as being
located on either one or the other. Station Street was built sometime
between 1855 and 1860, even though at the time the nearest railway station
was a mile away.
On the 1861 census, John Brentnall was listed as a Wine and Beer Retailer at
the first house on Station Street. In White’s directory of 1864, John
Brentnall was listed under the George Inn on High Pavement, but by the time
Morris & Co Directory of 1869 was published, John Brentnall held the Railway
Inn, Station Street. I feel certain this was the same building with either a
change of name or an error on the part of the printer. I have found no other
reference to the George Inn at Sutton, so if that name was used it would
have only been for a brief time.
By 1871, George Fearn occupied the property. His son was recorded as a
“Brewer” and his daughter’s occupation was “Waitress”. He remained in
occupation for over twenty years.
The Railway Inn was the location of the inquest into the death of a child
named Rose Simms in September 1884 and the inquest for John Cauldwell’s
death in September 1885.
The local Horticultural Society, formed in 1903, also held their meetings at
this house. In June 1910, the Railway Inn played host to the annual general
meeting of the Sutton Junction Football Club, which had come seventh in the
Notts & Derbyshire League that year.
In 1915, landlord Albert Clayton was also the head of Sutton’s Licenced
Victuallers Association in that year.
In 1918, Mr J Hill of the Railway Inn won a live pig from the Patriotic Fair
prize draw, The following year he gave evidence to Mansfield Magistrates
regarding a case of two young men who had set their dogs to attack a cat. Mr
Hill had found the cat severely injured and had “drowned it so it would be
out of its misery.”
In 1978, John Smiths Tadcaster Brewery applied for planning permission to
make alterations to the building. In 1985 and 1987 the Railway Inn was
advertising their services as an “Outside Bar Specialist”.
By 2005, the Railway Inn had recently been renovated and reopened, after a
period of being boarded up. In 2009 it was a “Free House”, offering
accommodation. By November 2015 the business had become “Far East Fusion
Restaurant and Bar”. Currently operating as a takeaway. |
