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Picture source: Scott Wilson

The George Hotel was situated at 48 Jordangate. This grade-II listed pub closed c2004 and has now been converted into apartments.

My Grandfather, Frank Bloor was a carpenter who worked for LMS railway as a coachbuilder. In the 1920s, during the General Strike I think it must have been, he did some ‘foreigners’ – the term for off the books work – in the building trade and worked in the George in the cellars under the pub. They pulled down a wooden partition which he was to replace and discovered a suit of armour. From his description it sounded like a seventeenth century back and breast plate and helmet rather than a medieval piece. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to it as the landlord obviously laid claim to it. He told me this in the early 1960s.

Guy Farrish (June 20230

Listed building details:

Public house. Original building late C17 but extensively rebuilt during C19, and remodelled early C20. Roughcast render over brick with mock timbering to main elevation. Welsh slate roof. 3-storeyed over substantial cellars, 2-window range. Entrance front comprehensively remodelled early C20. Central round-arched entrance with radial fanlight (perhaps early C19) flanked by 3-light windows divided by a transom, and with segmentally-arched lower central light. Upper windows have wood mullions and transoms and leaded lights. Lower gabled single-window range recessed to left with similar fenestration. INTERIOR: the only visible evidence for an earlier structure is the staircase to the rear, which is apparently late C17, with twisted balusters and moulded rail.

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