Page 6 - Points, Pints & Longevity

Redditch Heritage Pots, Pints & Longevity

The Crow family.

Thomas Crow, 45, needle pointer, his wife Elizabeth, 3 sons including Thomas (junior)
also a pointer aged 17, 2 daughters, James Mills a lodger also a pointer and Ann Sanders,
a servant, lived on the east side of Evesham Streets next to Benjamin Brown, maltster.
Thomas senior was listed in 1850, 1855 and 1860 as 'Beer sellers' the premises being
dignified by the title 'Turf Tavern' in 1855. By 1861 the establishment, now called the
'Fleece Inn' was occupied by James Oakley, and the Crow family had moved elsewhere
in the town. However Thomas junior had apparently surfaced by 1888 as first landlord
of the 'Printers Arms' a licensed house owned by Moses Cranmore who had established
a large, store next door on the corner of Evesham Street and Unicorn Hill.

Thomas, who gave his age as 57 in 1871, remained as landlord until 1878 when he was
succeeded by Mrs Rachel Crow. Thomas senior and Thomas junior seem to have lived at
least to the ages of 52 and 44 respectively, reasonably long life spans for pointers.

George Muslin.

"Right well I remember one day last December
I called at George Mustin's bar for a drain-"

The opening lines of a short poem commemorating the building of the Evesham Railway
in 1866 immortalised George, who first appears in 1851 as a needle pointer, aged 55,
with his wife Emma, 25, and two children in Albert Street. t this time a John Bryant aged
49, was running a hair dressing business in Evesham Street, on the east side twelve
doors north or the Crows' Turf Tavern.

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