Notes for Samuel JOULE Tenant of Pedley House, Rainow in 1851. In business with son John (silk & cotton) at
Millbrook Mill, Rainow. [14],[168]
* Mill Lane, Rainow is actually off the end of Ingersley
Road, Bollington, just beside the Poachers Inn. Hillside Farm in Mill Lane is
adjacent to the stream that comes from Lima Clough. On an old map (supplied by Tom
Swailes), I saw the last bit of the stream is called Joules Brook.
I am confident the Joules Brook got its name from the family, not the brewery, as it was so
called 100 years before the brewery connection.
A confusion is that at one time the Joules brewery, based in Stone, Staffordshire, owned
the Poachers Inn, then called The Masonic Arms and established in 1933.
The conveyance
to Joules (from Ind Coope) was dated 1944 and did not include the then separate but
attached property at the corner of Mill Lane. Joules bought this too in 1952, presumably to
extend the inn.
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Sources 14. | Email, Jacky Rodger, 13 January 2009 |
168. | Email, Bridget Franklin, 23/05/2023 |
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