Bridge Inn

On Stramongate at the south east entrance to Stramongate Bridge (NGR 351835 492932 Lat/Long 54.329681, -2.742142)

Curwen, 1900

The "Bridge Inn," at the south-west of Stramongate Bridge, which became licensed about 1830, was formerly a good residence. Upon the spout head are the initials and date GBA 1738 for Garnett Braithwaite, who is supposed to have erected the house at this period. He was a joint owner of a little mill in the neighbourhood, said to have been a silk mill, and afterwards a pin mill, which ceased about the year 1790. The factory was subsequently moved to the Castle Mill Dam, converted in to a woollen mill by Wilson and Braithwaite, and continued as such till about 1806, when the new Castle Mills were built.