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Address as Jetty Road in 1854. On Tuesday 14th November 1905, a man named James Houghton (A cabbie) appeared before magistrates in Doncaster, charged with obtaining board and lodgings at the Wood Street Hotel, Doncaster, by false pretences. Claiming to be Mr. Day of the Barking Smack, Yarmouth, he had entered the Wood Street Hotel on Tuesday 31st October 1905 and said he would depart on the following Saturday. He had supper on the Tuesday night, a beefsteak breakfast and a roast meat dinner on the Wednesday. He brought eight friends to tea, and after tea ordered four bottles of champagne and 45 cigars. The next morning he ordered a ham and egg breakfast, went out to get shaved whilst breakfast was prepared, and never returned. The sum owed was £4 2s 6d. Mr. Robert Arthur Day said that he and his father and grandfather had kept the Barking Smack Hotel for some sixty years. The defendant had no right to use his name. Houghton was committed to take trial at the next borough sessions. ~ On the afternoon of Thursday 15th November 1906 Mr. Robert Arthur Day was coming downstairs from the dining room, accompanied by his four-year-old son. It appeared that he lost his footing and the pair fell to the bottom of the stairs. Mr Day suffered a fractured skull, but his son was unhurt. The stairs were carpeted but the floor was stone flags. The doctor attended until after eleven that night, doing everything he could. Shortly after arriving home, the doctor was informed that his patient had died. |
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See p.115 & 116 of `Gt. Yarmouth Archive Photos ' pub 1995
