Alnwick (Alnwick Moor) - Shepherds' Rest

Name: The Shepherds' Rest

Address: Alnwick Moor, Alnwick

The Shepherd's Rest on Alnwick Moor opened in the late 1850s as the two OS maps below attest, and has been apart of life in this part of Alnwick ever since. Not present on the 1853 OS map for the area and not listed on the 1855 directory helps date the pub to the late 1850s.

1853 OS Map

1855 Whellan's Directory

1861 OS Map

Listed landlords at the Inn were Charles Landers (1861), William Jewers (-1878), Thomas Sharp Jobson (1878-81), Thomas Buglass (1881-97), Andrew Muckle (1901-), Thomas Brown (1915-), Ben Thompson (1921-), Thomas W Charters (1942-), Tom C Forster (1949-), Emmerson Wade (1993-), Bill and Mary Hodgson (1998 and Bob Laybourne (2000-).

1861 Census Charles Landers

1871 Census William Jewers

ALNWICK PETTY SESSIONS

Beerhouse license, (Shepherd's Rest, Alnwick Moor), transferred from William Jewers to Thos. Sharp Jobson.

Published: Saturday 11 May 1878

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS

On the 29th instant, aged 6 years, William Marshall, the beloved son of William Marshall and Agnes Forster. Shepherd's Rest, Alnwick Moor, on the 28th ult., aged 8 years, Amy B. W. Purvis, daughter the late Thomas and Elizabeth Purvis, merchant

Published: Saturday 02 August 1879

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

1881 Census Thomas Sharp Jobson

ALNWICK PETTY SESSIONS

Transfer of License.—The license of the Shepherd's Rest on Alnwick Moor, was transferred from Thomas S. Jobson to Thomas Buglass.

Published: Saturday 12 November 1881

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

Thomas Buglass was a Scotsman who moved down to Northumberland with his parents and siblings around 1860, his father working as an agricultural labourer, firstly in Embleton before moving to Alnwick in the 1870s.

ALNWICK MOOR ESTATE.

TO BE LET, with entry at 25th March next, on Seven Years’ Lease, the SHEPHERD’S REST BEER HOUSE, with Garden attached. Also, the LAND adjoining, called the Shepherd’s Green.

Published: Saturday 01 November 1884

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

Apply to Thomas Buglass, Shepherd’s Rest, Alnwick Moor, where a sample can be seen. FOR SALE, cheap, a quantity of last summer’s CHEESE, will be cleared out at once, at greatly reduced prices.—John James Horsley, Alnwick.

Published: Saturday 30 May 1885

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

ALNWICK BREWSTER SESSIONS

... and Mr. R. Middlemas, solicitor, Alnwick, applied for a full license to be granted to the beer-house The Shepherd's Rest, on Alnwick Moor, occupied by Mr. Thomas Buglass. Memorials were put in both for and against an extension of the existing license.

Published: Saturday 12 September 1885

Newspaper: Morpeth Herald

County: Northumberland, England

1891 Census Thomas Buglass

After nearly 20 years running the inn with his wife Janet, Thomas died in 1897 at the age of 50 and within a few years a new landlord was to be found behind the bar, once more of Scottish heritage.

1897 Probate Thomas Buglass

1901 Census Andrew Muckle

1911 Census Andrew Muckle

CHARGE AGAINST AN INNKEEPER.

Thomas Brown, Shepherd’s Rest, Alnwick Moor, was charged with having, on the 3rd inst., allowed beer to be consumed by soldiers on his licensed premises during prohibited hours, in contnavention of the Order made on...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1915

Newspaper: Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser

County: Northumberland, England

1921 Census Ben Thompson

Mr Thomas W. Charters, landlord of the Shepherd's Rest, on the Alnwick Freemen's Moor Estate, has died after soveral years in the tenancy. He was a former member of the...

Published: Thursday 11 June 1942

Newspaper: Illustrated Berwick Journal

Freemen swornlin at Alnwick

The other seven are Alnwick men. Oldest of the group was 78-year-old Mr John Forster, of Sunderland, whose nephew, Mr Tom Forster, is also a freeman and mine host of the Shepherd’'s Rest Inn, Alnwick Moor.

Published: Friday 29 April 1949

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

Evidence was also given by Thomas S. Forster, son of the licensee of the Shepherd’s Rest, Alnwick, and Police-Sergt. W. T. Hart. Forster said that Anderson told him of his quarrel with Mrs Hedley

Published: Friday 20 May 1949

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

Mr. Thomas Smith Forster, only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Forster, Shepherd’s Rest Inn, Alnwick, with his bride, Miss Doreen Simpson, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Simpson, Philipson Farm. Stannington, after their wedding at Stannington Parish Church ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1953

Newspaper: Morpeth Herald

Banned from driving

18-year-old youth losing his licence, for three months at Amble Magistrates Court. David Forster of the Shepherd's Rest, Clayport Street, Alnwick, admitted a careless driving charge. He was also fined £3O.

Published: Friday 04 July 1975

Newspaper: Morpeth Herald

Landlord allowing his customers to barter over the price of their meals. The idea is the brainchild of Emmerson Wade, of the Shepherd’s Rest pub, Alnwick.

Published: Monday 18 January 1993

Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail

THE SHEPHERDS REST ALNWICK
NOW OPEN FOR Bar Meals, A La Carte, Sunday Lunch, Kids Welcome Quiz Night - Mondays Steak & Kidney Pie, Chips & Peas Only £2.40 Mondays and Thursdays.
Published: Friday 30 July 1993
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

As well as a dovecote the inn on the edge of Alnwick Moor has rabbits and an aviary which is home to budgies, quail and canaries. According to the owners of The Shepherd’s Rest, Bill and Mary Hodgson, the newest arrivals had to endure a...

Published: Friday 05 June 1998

Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury

 After five years experience as manager at The Hermitage in Warkworth, Bob Laybourne now has taken over as landlord of the Shepherd’s Rest, Alnwick Moor.
Published: Thursday 18 May 2000
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald