The Ladysmith public house stands on the corner of Wellington Road and Harley Street. The pub opened in 1860 as a beerhouse (licensed to sell beer but not wines and spirits) with the name The Railway Tavern, being only a short distance from Charlestown Station. Five years later it became fully licensed and changed its name to The Railway Hotel. It kept that name until 1983, when it was re-named The Ladysmith, after the former Ladysmith Barracks in Ashton.
How soon we forget.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of us know why barracks were erected in most northern towns.
Yet now, we going around naming everything with the name of a symbol of oppression. Remember Peterloo?