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The Westminster - High Street
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The Royal Oak - King Street
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The Devonshire Arms - South Street, The Moor
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The Shades Vaults - Watson's Walk. The pub was founded in 1797
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The Three Horse Shoes - Norfolk Street (Jehu Street)
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The Kings Head - 1 Change Alley. The pub had been in existence since 1772. The above photograph shows the bottom of Change Alley. The Kings Head is the taller building further up the street. Incidentally Change Alley no longer exists as it was demolished during the construction of Arundel Gate
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The Angel - 15 Angel Street. The Angel was even older than the Kings Head having been in existence since 1657. An article in The Sheffield Star dated 25th February gave a brief history of a notable Sheffield landmark that was situated on the corner of Angel Street and Bank Street
"...(The Angel's) first real claim to fame came in 1760, when it became the terminus for the first regular mail stage coach service between Sheffield and London. The coach was fancifully described as 'a flying machine on steel springs' which completed the hazardous journey in a mere six days. Travel in those days was a problematic affair - the adverts warned journeys would be completed "if God permits". Overnight stops on the way up to Sheffield included St Albans, Northampton and Nottingham. Later the time to the capital was reduced to three days, then 26 hours, and finally to just 16 hours before the railway made the service largely redundant.
Original prices for the trip were £2.2s (£2.10) - or £153 in today's money, leaving twice a week at 5am. The coach traveling north linked with a service to Leeds.
By the time of its heyday in the early 1800s the inn saw stage coaches also arriving from and departing to Birmingham, Doncaster, Carlisle, Hull, Manchester and Edinburgh - the interchange of its time.
But the Angel also played another important role in the life of the growing metropolis. Sheffield still had in the early 19th century no proper theatre, with the townsfolk relying instead on groups of strolling players. Handbills surviving from the time show that some of this entertainment was available at the Angel. It was certainly an important meeting place - with a hall and courtyard both for meetings and balls, somewhere to see and be seen.
So central was the hotel to the city's social life that in 1815 it was the venue of the official dinner to celebrate victory at the Battle of Waterloo. Doubtless the fare that night was something special.
A more typical dinner menu of the time boasted baked foul, cold ham, Yorkshire pudding, loin of roast mutton and gooseberry pie - all for 1s.6d (7 and a half pence).
By the 1850s the Angel was a family-run business and was officially being termed a hotel, which at its peak contained 55 bedrooms. And by 1899 the landlord of the day was consciously reflecting his hostelry's glorious past with the creation of a large stained glass window depicting the first stage coach to leave for London.
The Angel's final years were less distinguished. During the First World War the building was taken over by the Ministry For Pensions - and it lost its drinks licence, which never was to return. Worse was to follow in 1934, when the company running the reopened hotel was put in the hands of receivers and it was forced to close.
In its final days the Angel was the headquarters of Sheffield's special constables - before its day of destiny with the Luftwaffe."After the war the site was derelict for many years before it became the site of the ABC Cinema in 1961. The cinema closed in 1989 and was demolished soon after to make way for a prestigious retail development. Needless to say the site remained a temporary car park until the construction in 2003 of the Travel Inn Metro.
The A - Z of Sheffield Public Houses by Michael Liversidge adds the following information. Confirming that the original Inn was built in 1657 he then states that it was demolished and replaced by a new Angel in 1816. One notable feature was a terracotta angel by Rossi that adorned the front of the Inn. He also confirms that it was a Samuel Glanville who was the landlord at the time of the first coach services to London
And finally, the following information I obtained from the excellent Sheffield History Forum
Angel - 15 Angel Street 1657 1940 283
List of Licencees1779 - 1809 Samuel Peech
1822 Thomas Walker
1828 Edward Hancock
1833 Edward Hancock (1837)
1837 Edward Hancock
1841 Frederick Wilkinson
1845 William Walker
1846 Frederick Wilkinson
1849 Frederick Wilkinson
1851 Frederick Wilkinson
1852 Frederick Wilkinson
1854 Frederick Wilkinson
1856 Frederick Wilkinson
1861 Frederick Wilkinson
1862 Frederick Wilkinson
1871 John North
1881 Tom Harry Thompson
1893 John Chambers
1901 Paul Roder
1905 Paul Roder
1911 Mrs Mary Robinson
Earlier Samuel Glanville 1760 (died 14th July 1803, aged 83
Obituary, with Anecdotes, of Remarkable Persons -
Aged 70, after a life of great activity, utility, and enterprise, Mr. Samuel Peech, who had kept the Angel inn, at Sheffield for the last 30 years, and was well known throughout the kingdom as a considerable coach-proprietor and post-master.
Additional :9th October 1809
At Sheffield, far advanced in age, Mrs Peech, relict of Mr Samuel P. of the Angel inn there, whom she survived only a few weeks.
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The Bodega - Market Place, High Street (known prior to 1904 as either The George or The George and Dragon). As the following photograph shows, the Bodega was totally gutted.
