I found 2 small adverts, which linked Drucilla (Hudson) Hassall, my great grandmother to the Watts Russell Arms, a public house in Staffordshire. Dad remembers his mum talking about this, she remembered a forge at the back, the copper in the pub, which she helped to clean and the vicar coming after Sunday service to hold a short prayer meeting for those attending the drinking session, rather than the church service!
I have no information about when they moved, as the 1911 census shows them to be living at 14 Caroline Street, but can only surmise it was sometime between then and 1925, when they moved out.
Below is an extract from the 1924 Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire, under Alstonfield
The notice for the commercial sale from Staffordshire Advertiser 21 March 1925, page 12
The Watts Russell Arms is still in business today.
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