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Picture source: Peter Ashworth

The Phoenix Hotel was situated on College Road.

My great great grandfather Councillor Mark Davy owned it until his death in the late 1800s. His son Harry then inherited it. Harry passed away in 1908, so not sure who took over ownership then. I visited the hotel in 2011. It was boarded up by then, likely condemned. Was hoping to take away a souvenir of the place, but understand it’s since been demolished.

Ivy Davy (March 2020)

My Grandad, Thomas Lavelle, was the landlord of this pub from some point in the 1930s on through the war years. I'm not sure at which point he retired from the job, but prior to this pub, he was landlord at The Lord Nelson Hotel in Mexborough and at the Plug and Feathers in Glapwell, Derbyshire. My mother told us stories of growing up here. She said the men driving the barges along the adjacent canal would stop at the hotel and there was a stable in back for the horses pulling the barges.

Francesca Wainwright (March 2026)

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