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Old 15-07-11, 08:58
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Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Alice Jane Mortlock

Date and place of birth

18 October 1880 at 178 Thornley Street, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire

Names of parents

William Mortlock and Alice Flack


Details of each of his or her marriages - if any - and any divorces

29 October 1907 at St John the Divine, Horninglow, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire to Edgar Newey

Occupation(s) - if any

Licensee of The Acorn Inn, Needwood, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire (from 1926 - 1934 jointly with her husband and after his death from 1934 - 1973 on her own) She was the oldest landlady in the area.

Derby Evening Telegraph Wednesday September 2nd 1964

ALICE OF THE ACORN

Oldest woman licensee in the Burton area

A pub which was originally taken over as a sideline to her husband's business as painter ans decorator has ended up as the chief interest of the oldest woman licensee in the Burton area.
Mrs Alice Newey, of the Acorn Inn, Needwood moved to the pub in 1926, with her husband anf six children. Mr Newey hoped to build up a country connectionfor his business and succeeded. But he died in 1934, and Mrs Newey carried on with the help of her children. Now they are all married, except one son, Leslie, who lives with his mother, and assists her with the work of running the inn. Mrs Newey, who serves in the bar in a morning, also has the help of a daughter who lives nearby.
Mrs Newey was born in Burton, where her father, Mr William Mortlock, kept an off licence- it is still there- at the junction of Stafford Street and Thornley Street. He started off by "bottling" a drop of beer for his own use, and it proved so popular that he bagan to sell it, starting a small bottling store. He was the first person in Burton to be allowed to display the harp of a famous firm of stout brewers.
Smart and sprightly, with white hair, Mrs Newey refuses to divulge her age. "I lost my birth certificate years ago" she says. She is a keen gardener, and the garden at the Acorn is a pleasant place where parents can sit with their children on fine days. Mrs Newey believes that a good publican should create a friendly, homely atmosphere, where people can relax.
How well she herself succeeds in this may be judged by the fact that people stationed nearby during the war still call back to remind her of the days when that had sing songs round the piano in the back room, with a gallon jug of beer on the table.


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1880 - 1907 - 178 Thornley Street, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
1907 - 1926 - 15 Gordon Street, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
1926 - 1973 - The Acorn Inn, Needwood, Burton on Trent


Date, place and cause of death

28 March 1973 - The General Hospital, Burton on Trent - cause - Bronchopneumonia, Carcinomatosis and Carcinoma of Stomach (Leather Bottle Stomach)

Burton Daily Mail

Death of area's oldest licensee.

The oldest licensee in the Burton area, Mrs Alice Jane Newey, died last Wednesday aged 92. She was the licensee of the Acorn Inn, a Bass Charrington Ltd. public house, at Henhurst Hill, until her death in Burton District Hospital Centre. Mrs Newey was the daughter ot the late Mr William Mortlock, a well known bottler for Bass Charrington at the turn of the century. She moved to the Acorn Inn in 1926 with her husband Ted, and when he died nine years later ( actually 8 ) she carried on as licensee. Throughout the Second World War she was well known locally for her piano playing at the inn, and people from those years still visited her up to her death. Mrs Newey's son Leslie lived with her and served customers during the last five years of her life. She had two other sons, three daughters, 13 grandchildren and 5 great-children. Her favourite hobby was gardening


Date and place of burial / cremation.

2 April 1973 at St Michael and All Angels, Tatenhill, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

£7692.82 (gross) £7453.43 (net) Divided between her children

Memorial inscription - if any

Yes


Alice stayed with her Aunt's Jane and Kate Mortlock in London when she was small, and could always remember the newsboys shouting the headlines
"ANOTHER MURDER IN WHITECHAPEL"

Jack the Ripper


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Old 16-07-11, 06:51
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What a wonderful lady. I can just imagine the incredible atmostphere with the sing a longs around the piano.
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