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Cross Gates: Travellers Rest pub 1910
This is the first of two old photographs of the Travellers Rest public house in Cross Gates.
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The large inn stood on the corner of Austhorpe Road (Manston Road) and Station Road.
The site is now occupied by a carpet shop after the demolition of two Travellers Rest inns.
This photograph was taken in 1910 with the original public house opening in 1835.
It once had a small grocery shop attached, run at one time by a Mrs Johnson.
In 1882, the first Cross Gates Methodist Church opened (seen on the right of the old inn) and at this stage in the early part of the century, there were only a few of the houses on the right side
of the road converted into shops.
The shop on the corner was a chemist's run by the Fawthrop family and referred to as Fawthrop's Corner.
The building of the first inn coincided with the development of the Manston coal pits and the opening of Cross Gates railway station.
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