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April News
The following items have been extracted from the British Newspaper Archive.Morning Post - Thursday 13 April 1854
POETICAL TAVERN SIGNS.—In the parlour of the“Three Pigeons,” Brentford, is on old painting, dated 1704,
representing a landlord attending to his guests seated at a
table in the open air, with these lines above :—
" Wee are new beginners,
And thrive we would faine;
I am Honest Ralph of Reading.
My wife Susand to name."
" Lowin (one of the original actors in Shakespeare's plays). in
his latter days, kept an inn, the ‘ Three Pigeons,’ at Brent-
ford, where he died very old." At a public-house near
Cambridge, known to the natives: of Cambridgeshire as
“ Tew-Pot House”, formerly kept by one Cooper, there
used to he—I cannot say decidedly is, as I have not passed
the place for 10 years and more—the following :—
“Rest, traveller, rest; lo! Cooper’s hand
Obedient brings two pots at thy commend.
Rest, traveller, rest and banish thoughts of care,
Drink to thy friends, and recommend them here.”
Morning Post - Friday 11 April 1884
At the Brentford Police-court yesterday Benjamin New-man, High-street, Brentford, a shopman, was charged
with burglariously entering the shop of Mr. Bradbury, pro-
vision merchant, Brentford, and stealing therefrom £12 10s,
besides wine and tobacco, on the night of the 8th inst.
The prisoner had been four or five years in the prosecutor's
employment, but had left. On Saturday the premises were
found in confusion, the tills and money bags having been
ransacked by some one acquainted with the place. The
prisoner was remanded.
Footnotes
Read more about the Three Pigeons at 195 High Street and Bradburys at 108/9 High Street.Published April 2012