Stoneham Street showing the Locomotive Inn, originally the Black Horse, re-named in about 1855 by an ex-railwayman who retired to run the pub. This may have been David Dalton who was landlord of the Locomotive Inn in 1863 when the rent was £16 a year and it was owned by the brewers Wells and Perry from whom he was tied to buy beer and spirits. The house contained five bedrooms a tap-room, bar, and parlour; and there was a garden, stables, sheds, and a chaise-house. [Essex Standard, May 1863] Jacob Dalton his son took over the pub in April 1892.
'November 1907: We very sincerely regret to announce the death of Mr. Jacob Dalton, of Coggeshall, a thoroughly upright and conscientious man, belonging to the working classes. Mr. Dalton was 70 years of age and a native of Coggeshall. He married at the early age of 17 at St. Botolph's Church, Colchester, and his wife (who died in January last) and he had 17 children, nine of whom survive; eight sons and one daughter. As a lad he used to drive the engine at the large silk weaving factory at Coggeshall which was then in full work. Thence he went to Earls Colne and worked at Mr. Hunt's foundry, then to Chelmsford, where he worked for many years as an engineer, including 15 years as foreman of an engineering works. He returned to Coggeshall about 15 years ago, and took over the Locomotive Inn, which had been carried on by his late father for many years. He retired about six years ago on account of ill health. At Coggeshall he was a member of the parish council, an overseer of the parish, a District Councillor, and a member the Town Band Committee. There were few in the town and districts of Chelmsford and Coggeshall who did not know Jacob Dalton who did his best in the sphere of life to which God had called him. [Essex Newsman 16/11/1907]
Sold and un-licensed in 1910 the premises were advertised as: 'Timber-built and tiled, well situate in Stoneham-street, Coggeshall, and now known as the " LOCOMOTIVE" INN, with shop or cottage adjoining, large yard, with stables, chaise-house, and garden at rear'. It made £355 at auction and was bought by Joe Green a plumber.
Date c1905
Photo courtesy Douglas Judd
Ref 101/32
'November 1907: We very sincerely regret to announce the death of Mr. Jacob Dalton, of Coggeshall, a thoroughly upright and conscientious man, belonging to the working classes. Mr. Dalton was 70 years of age and a native of Coggeshall. He married at the early age of 17 at St. Botolph's Church, Colchester, and his wife (who died in January last) and he had 17 children, nine of whom survive; eight sons and one daughter. As a lad he used to drive the engine at the large silk weaving factory at Coggeshall which was then in full work. Thence he went to Earls Colne and worked at Mr. Hunt's foundry, then to Chelmsford, where he worked for many years as an engineer, including 15 years as foreman of an engineering works. He returned to Coggeshall about 15 years ago, and took over the Locomotive Inn, which had been carried on by his late father for many years. He retired about six years ago on account of ill health. At Coggeshall he was a member of the parish council, an overseer of the parish, a District Councillor, and a member the Town Band Committee. There were few in the town and districts of Chelmsford and Coggeshall who did not know Jacob Dalton who did his best in the sphere of life to which God had called him. [Essex Newsman 16/11/1907]
Sold and un-licensed in 1910 the premises were advertised as: 'Timber-built and tiled, well situate in Stoneham-street, Coggeshall, and now known as the " LOCOMOTIVE" INN, with shop or cottage adjoining, large yard, with stables, chaise-house, and garden at rear'. It made £355 at auction and was bought by Joe Green a plumber.
Date c1905
Photo courtesy Douglas Judd
Ref 101/32
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By Joy Stocks: Jacob Dalton 1837-1907 was my 2x great grandfather, the son of Jacob Dalton, 1810-1879, who ran the blacksmiths shop (possibly in the yard behind the Inn?) next to his father Michael Dalton beside the Black Horse Inn, while William French was Innkeeper in 1841.
After William French was convicted as the ringleader of the Coggeshall gang, the Black Horse was taken over by William Merrywether, who changed the name of the Inn before moving away; it is likely that Jacob had only been publican for about a month or so when the census was taken on 30 March 1851. When the elder Jacob died, his wife Rachel, a Tambour mistress, continued to run the Inn with the help of her son, Mike, sister Emma Willet and granddaughter Ellen Pilgrem (1881 census) - the entry also shows the Inn's name as the Black Horse, so it was still being referred to by that name at the time. Mike Dalton ran the Locomotive until formally handing over the Inn mid-April 1892 to his brother Jacob, who had been assisting him since february of that year.
Jacob proved a popular inn-keeper, and became a local council member and member of the Braintree board of Guardians.
"Jacob Dalton, the well-known innkeeper of coggeshall, is never happier than when cracking a good joke..." Essex Newsman saturday 2 march 1901.
He retired after suffering ill health, and the Inn was taken over by Robert Barnard.
There is no David Dalton in our family tree! Perhaps the Brewers had the wrong name?