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the ship INN (2)
Vicarage Street
This,
the second Ship
Inn,
was a beerhouse
in Vicarage
Street and not
to be confused
with the first
Ship that
was built by
Nathaniel Cary
of the
Angel Inn
and suppressed
in 1653 as an 'unfitt
place'.
The references to this Ship Inn are from the 1859 notices of bankruptcy of Richard Maddaford (see Gallery), and from an unspecified newspaper article, dated 1904, (below) in Leslie Brooke's notes. This article locates the Ship in Vicarage Street near its junction with Silver Street but does not allude to its period of operation.
Sadly, on 18 December 1859, in the middle of Richard Maddaford's bankruptcy proceedings, his 32-year-old wife, Elizabeth, died at the Ship Inn.
Little else is known.
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Vicarage
Street,
which
used to
be the
principal
residential
thoroughfare
in
Yeovil
(the
Vicarage
gave its
name to
the
street)
had a
very
narrow
entrance
from
Silver
Street.
Between
Mr
Parker's
shop and
the
coffee
tavern
on the
opposite
corner
there
stood a
shoemaker's
shop
leaving
the
narrowest
possible
opening
into the
street.
Behind
the
shoemaker's
shop,
partly
on the
ground
now
occupied
by the
fire
station
(see
Gallery),
was a
public
house
known as
the
"Ship".
The
shoemaker's
shop was
burnt
down one
Sunday
evening
as
people
were
going to
church,
whereupon
the
Corporation
wisely
purchased
the land
to widen
the
street. |
gallery
Courtesy of Jo
Darrow
The notice of Richard Maddaford's bankruptcy proceedings from the 1 November 1859 edition of the Western Flying Post.
Courtesy of Jo
Darrow
The notice of Richard Maddaford's continuing bankruptcy proceedings from the 29 November 1859 edition of the Western Flying Post.
An early photograph shows the fire engine house (seen on the map above) at the junction of Silver Street and Vicarage Street as viewed from Silver Street. Silver Street continues off towards the Borough at the right of the photograph while Vicarage Street runs off to the left. The Ship was located at the left end of the fire engine house.
This photograph probably dates to the 1940's and looks along the eastern end of Vicarage Street to its junction with Silver Street - St John's church is in the background at the right. The long, single-storey building to the left of the car is the old fire engine house and the site of the Ship (2) would have been about where the lighter section of wall stands to the left of the black and white street sign pole, itself to the left of the car.
licensees
1859 – Richard
Maddaford
(Western
Flying Post)
named in
bankruptcy
proceedings as
"of
the Ship Inn, in
Vicarage-street".
