IT’S now home to an award-winning fish and chip shop but the former Brickmakers Arms building has a fascinating history – and possibly it’s most interesting story is it’s landlord of 100 years ago, Arthur Whittaker.
He was the licensee of the School Brow pub from the 1890’s until his untimely death in 1934 when he fell 20 feet out of the pub window at the age of 70.
Only a week before the accident he had signed the lease over to his son Herbert – who was on his honeymoon when his father died having recently married.
Herbert was similarly unlucky – he was forced to give up running the pub on doctor’s orders when he split his stomach and took over a convenience store on Bewsey Road.
His daughter Dee Larkin, of Stockton Heath, supplied these photographs and said she hasn’t been back to the building, which is now Captain Papa's chip shop, since her early teens.
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