Hello all,
A lady from Ireland recently emailed me having visited my local history website. She was particularly interested in my in depth research into licensed prmises. She recalled that in her school days, as part of her English education, she had to read an essay entitled Tewkesbury Inns. Unforunately she could not remember the author's name. She suggested that it may have been by Hazlitt or Coleridge. I have done extenisve searches on both and have found that Hazlitt actually spent an evening at an inn, in his words "I think it was at Tewkesbury", on his journey to visit Coleridge. I can find no essay of the name in his bibliography and so have drawn a blank there.
It is of course possible that my informant was mistaken as to the name of the essay or, as is more likely, it was not by Hazlitt. A contemporary descrition of the town's inns would of course be worth its weight in gold. Does anyone here know of such an essay and if so who wrote it. Failing this, is there any evidence anywhere which might point bme in the right direction.
Thanks Andy H.