Old Engine, East Dean - can anyone help? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, August 01, 2011, 22:10 (4866 days ago) @ unknown

Search the following excellent website for "Steam Mills" (sorry can't give a direct link) gives 3 hits including the Mitre which closed pre1939 and the Old Engine which finally closed in 2001. The site has a particularly extensive & interesting history for the Old Engine.
http://www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk/pubs/glospubs/new/AllGlosPubsDatabase/AllGlosPub...

According to this excellent site the inn was in business under that name in 1856, landlord E.Teague, and in 1869 landlord William Matthews. The site shows a detailed description of it and the adjoining cottages when up for auction in 1870, from the Gloucester Chronicle paper, naming various tenants of the time including Eliza Hurcombe who is listed as a shopkeeper on the OP's linked site "Morris Commercial Directory of East Dean 1876". Although it lists other tenants & their homes it doesn't quote house numbers, hopefully these are your relatives David ?: Willetts, Matthews, Aubrey, Price ?.

I am sure the Inn and cottages were indeed named after the local pit.