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BREWERIES,MALTINGS AND PUBLIC HOUSES
MALT SHOVEL INN AND MALTINGS
ZACHARY SMITH'S TRENT BREWERY

MALTSHOVEL INN AND MALTINGS

The Malt ShovelInn and the adjacent corbelled building on the Wharf were built by HumphreyMoore in 1799. The Moore's were a local farming family but in additionto working the land Humphrey rented part of a quarry from the Holden'sof Aston and carried stone from Weston Cliff to mend the flood defencesat Derwentmouth and the copings of the canal. In 1811 he borrowed moneyfrom Mr Holden to build a tramway from the Aston plaster pit to the canaland he also bought the plot of land later known as Millfield from Mr Burgin.

Humphrey diedin April 1816 leaving legacies totalling £1640 to nephews and nieces.His nephew George took over the buildings on the wharf and sold the contentswhich from the auctioneers advert in the Derby Mercury we know included brewing vessels. A map of the same year confirms that the corbelled buildingstarted life as a brewery. In the will George is described as a maltsterand as the brewing implements were sold perhaps the building now continuesas a maltings or malt warehouse.

Humphrey isnot gone, however, as George Gilbert tells us the story of Humphrey’s ghosthaunting the building, a tale dating from George's childhood in the 1820swhich caused him to "whistle as loudly as ever I could whenever I had topass it". George also tells us that until the Baptist Chapel was builton the Wharf the house attached was used to hold services and the SundaySchool classes.

By 1852 theproperties are owned by William Clarke who is running the Malthousehimself, letting out the house which later becomes the Malt Shovel to WilliamBancroft, a boatbuilder and a storeroom to Mary Cope who runs the New Inn.

Throughoutthe latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries the building was abrewhouse and never listed as a public house or inn in the local tradedirectories. For some years it was called the Dew Drop and the first mentionof it as the Malt Shovel seems to be the 1891 census when the publicanis Joseph Cope. We know from a Trust Deed of 1923 that the "Malthouse or Malt Office now unoccupied" and the beerhouse, the Malt ShovelInn were owned by Zachary Smith and Co., whose brewery was across the canal.Zachary lived at Broughton House. Smiths Brewery was taken over by Marston'sand so to the present day.

pre 1955 layout of Malt Shovel

new layout 1955

More information,photographs, maps and the full text of the 1816 advert, George Gilbert’smemories of the beerhouse and Humphrey’s ghost and a fuller story of ZacharySmith’s Brewery are on display at the Centre. Use the links below for moreinformation.

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ZACHARY SMITH'S TRENT BREWERY

The Trent Brewery appears in the 1870 Directory as Smith, L & Co. mild,strong, India pale ale and porter brewers, Trent Brewery. By 1874the company is listed as Z. Smith & Co. and Zachary Smith is livingin the village at Broughton House. The 1881 census entry gives the followingdetails:
Zachary Smith 54 Brewer employing 20 men. Born Ashby, Leicestershire.
Emma Smith wife 47 born Ireland.
They employed a cook, a housemaid and a page.

Dr Lethbridge Farmer, the son of Shardlow’s Rector, remembered ZacharySmith as “a retiring man of punctilious manners, generous to all good causesand always dressed in a grey suit and grey bowler hat”. John Nash recalledthat it was at Zachary Smith’s house that he “with all the other villagekids received a medal and enamel mug on the coronation of King Edward V11”.

Emma died 6 May 1906 aged 76 and Zachary died 27 December 1918 aged91.

The Brewery was built on the site of a disused grain warehouse (no.27on the 1852 plan) and the company also used the warehouse (no.35 on theplan) as a bottling store.

Z. Smith & Co. became a Limited Company and issued sharesin December 1898 and became a registered company in 1923. The scheduleattached to the latter document lists the properties owned by the company.
SHARDLOW; Malt House, Malt Shovel Inn, Dog and Duck Inn, Wharf House,Canal Tavern.
SAWLEY; Railway Inn, house, shops and cottages on Church Streetand Cross Street, Nags Head and related cottages and Butcher’s Shop, Off-licenseat the corner of Nottingham Road and Hey St.
DERBY; Alexandra Hotel, the Lorne, Boyer Street, bakehouse on MiltonStreet, houses and shops on Normanton Road, Warner Street, Gerard Street,Bainbrigge Street, Depot Street and Barrow Street, Neptune Inn, Buckin the Park.
LONG EATON; Tiger Inn, shops and houses on Queen Street, Lower BrookStreet and Russell Street.
DRAYCOTT; Travellers Rest Inn.
BORROWASH; Nags Head Inn.
CASTLE DONINGTON; Kings Head Inn, Lamb Inn, house, stable etc at thecorner of Clapgun Street and Market Place.
OSGATHORPE; Story Arms.
SHEPSHED; Lifeguardsman Inn, Pied Bull Inn, houses and shops FactoryStreet and Bull Ring, Railway Hotel, cottage and shop Hallcroft.
WHITWICK; Foresters Arms.
LOUGHBOROUGH; house and shop Russell Street, Gate Inn, Boat Inn.
MELBOURNE; house shop and cottages Rawden Street, houses and shop StationRoad.
QUORNDON; Quorn Hunt Ale Stores.
LONG WHATTON; Royal Oak Inn.
HATHERN; Kings Arms Inn.
PEGGS GREEN; Engine Inn.
LITTLE EATON; New Inn.
COALVILLE; houses and shop Gutteridge Street.
SMALLEY; Nag’s Head Inn.
BREASTON; Bull’s Head Inn.
HUGGLESCOTE; houses and shop.
PACKINGTON; Bull and Lion Inn.
SHELTON LOCK; Bridge Inn.
ILKESTON; house and shop Ebenezer Street.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH; White Hart.

Trent Brewery Employees.
We know the names of three of Zachary Smith’s waggoners.

Joe Herod
“His head waggoner Joe Herod drove a pair of 17 hand horses of whichhe was deservedly proud.” - Dr Lethbridge Farmer.
The 1881 census lists the family living on Long Row. Joseph Herod,57, brewery drayman, born Sawley is listed with his wife Elizabeth, 54,born Hemington, and their four children Catherine, Joseph, Harriet andSarah Jane, and grandson Hartley Howarth.

Mr Nash
“My father was one of [Z Smith] waggoners who with a pair of heavyhorses and a waggon took barrels and cases of bottled beer to public housesin the surrounding district as far as Loughborough” - John Nash talkingof the 1890’s [in 1970’s].

John Pegg

John Pegg driving one of Zachary’s drays

Z Smith horse harness brass

The 1891 census lists the Pegg family living on Wilne Lane. John Pegg,48, brewers drayman, born at Wilne is listed with his wife Ann, 50,born at Weston and their eight children Sarah, Mary, George, John, James,Henry, Kezia and Ann.

Mr Nash also remembered one of the employees perks.
“I had the job of taking a stone gallon bottle in my barrow along withthe other kids whose fathers worked at the Brewery and line up at fiveo’clock for old Joe Herod to fill the bottle with the workman’s beer allowance.This gave us the chance to nick a few barrel bungs to play hop scotch with”- John Nash, Long Eaton Advertiser 21 March 1975.

After the Company's activities were moved to Burton on Trent, the buildingwas used as a Malt Extract Works, then demolished in 1975.
Demolition in progress.
Many thanks for information and illustrations to Mr Clifton, MrsKnibb, Mr and Mrs Morton-Harrison
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DANIELSAND PAYNE IRONMERCHANTS
Daniels and Payne were iron, steel and tin plate merchants. Their mainaddress was 20 Upper Thames Street, London EC, with a branch at Marsh Street,Bristol and another in later years in Nottingham. In Shardlow they occupiedthe Old Iron Warehouse (no 17 on the 1852 plan).


Old Iron Warehouse in 1995	1930's postcard	Site Plan 1938

The original building is the right hand half of the present building asviewed on the above photos. The early building stands alone on the 1816map but in the rate book of 1831 the firm is paying for warehouses includinga new warehouse. They also owned the two little houses at the West Endof the twitchell (no 18 on the 1852 plan, and crosshatched on the aboveplan).

They must have opened their depot at Shardlow as early as 1800 as GeorgeGilbert’s father Thomas had worked for them for more than 50 years whenhe retired in 1857. George in his memoirs gives a lovely testimonial totheir qualities as employers:
“I have stated that at the time of my birth my father was employedby the firm of Daniels & Payne and a better firm or kinder heartedgentlemen there never was their principal place of business was in LowerThames Street London with branch establishments at Bristol and Shardlowand afterwards one at Nottingham. My father remained with them formore than half a century and always had his wages paid him no stoppagesfor loss of time through sickness or any other cause and I believe it wasthe same with the other men also, besides having presents at certain seasonsof the year such as Christmas for instance and when he had attained theage of 80 years he was pensioned off for life with 15/- per week and allowedto live in the house free of rent which he had ever done before and formany years previous to this he had only gone to the place and done a littlework just as suited him, or nearly so, at length he died in the 86th yearof his age (1863) his funeral expenses all being paid by the firm and afterwardsmy mother was allowed 10/- per week during the remainder of her life whenat her decease which took place in the following year 1864 in her 81styear they also kindly defrayed all the expenses of her funeral they wereboth buried in the Church yard at Shardlow close to the spot where my eldersister Jane was laid but a short time before having died at the age of43 in the year 1857.”

The firm's name changed over the years as the Partners changed. In alease of 1812 between the firm and the Canal Company it is suggested thatit would be necessary to make the lease flexible enough not to need renegotiatingin the event of the firm taking on a new partner. At that time the partnerswere Harford, Daniels, Payne and Balby. About 1860 it was Miles, Gouldand Company, and by 1870, their last entry in the Directory for Shardlow,it was Miles, Gould, Duce and Company.
They had a succession of agents in the village; in the 1820’s to 1832it was John Tringrose (Trengrouse in the 1832 Rate Book), and from 1833it was William Gould who was probably the Gould listed as a partner fromabout 1860.
From about 1840 the agent was James Llewellin who was born 14 August1814 in the village. He lived with his mother Elizabeth and his three sistersin one of the houses owned by the Soresby family (no 19 on the 1852 plan).He died 15 October 1863.

For the last half dozen years that the firm was in the village, theiragent was Henry Dickinson who combined the job with that of his marketgardening business. Henry's firm became a major employer as Dickinsons,later Shardlow, Nurseries.
The Old Iron Warehouse was later used by F E Stevens and Company asa grain store and is now the premises of Don Fab, a sheet metal workingcompany.
The 1812 Lease is deposited in the British Waterways Archives at Gloucester,ref BW 1111.95.