UNCLE TOMS CABIN - ? WARD

Mr. Boughton held a beer and wine licence, seemingly for the Uncle Tom's Cabin, from 1857. The Britannia Pier was built over these premises.

On Tuesday 6th September 1859, Mr. W. Cheston applied for a new licence for the refreshment rooms on the new Britannia Pier. The visitors were disappointed that only tepid ginger beer and soda water could be served (on the pier). They were astonished that they could not have sherry or other wines, &c.
The magistrates voted six for and ten against the application.

Samuel Broughton gained a licence to sell wine, (on the Pier?) Thursday 27th August 1874.

In August 1899, Mr. Boughton said that he was not prepared to surrender the Uncle Tom's Cabin, beneath the Pier, since it was a lucrative business.
For the Corporation it was said that the land concerned would return to them since it had originally been taken from the public, and the licence had been obtained in a somewhat similar way.

In existence until October 1900 when the original Britannia Pier (Built 1858) was demolished.