The recent post about the William IV Hotel prompted me to dig out this glass we found in the family home whilst emptying it. “An original glass” from the said Hotel before it was demolished.
Image and details courtesy of Dorothy Butler (nee Wright).
William IV Hotel, Stockton
My grandmother was shot in the leg in the William IV!! She had popped in for a drink on a hot market day. A local game dealer came in and when he put down his bag containing his shotgun it went off – and several pellets entered poor Louie Plumley’s leg. She suffered from ulcers around that area for the rest of her life. Mind she lived to be 86 so it mustn’t have done her too much harm!
The Glass gives another part of the William IV Hotel story, and here is a bit more. While researching “the History of the Lambton Castle Hotel” as part of Stockton Council’s stories from the High Street I came across an interesting reference to the William IV. To view it click on
https://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/articles/stories/the-lambton-castle/ and the scroll down to the near the bottom of the page
Regard Bryan
They had the first juke box in Stockton