Looking through time. May 2021 [in explore] (Flickr Explore)

Another from my visit to Newark. This is on Beastmarket Hill.

 

The building Ossington Coffee House, dates from 1881 when Charlotte, Viscountess Ossington, proposed a new café or coffee tavern in Newark. It was built close to the River Trent, opposite the castle and cattlemarket, on land bought from the Handley family. The purpose of the coffee house was to promote the cause of temperance and lure farmers away from the town’s public houses. The building has had many uses, including as stables, a hotel and a base for military personnel during both world wars.

 

On a plaque high up on the front of the building it reads,

"Ossington Coffee Palace. A perfect copy of a 17th Cent Hostelry erected in 1882 as a temperance hotel by Viscountess Ossington a daughter of the Fourth Duke of Portland and widow of the First Viscount Ossington one time speaker of the House Of Commons"

 

Currently it's Zizzi, an Italian chain restaurant for pizza.

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