| Administrative History | John Huxley 1801-1884 was born in Clotton in the parish of Tarvin. When he married Ann Speed at St Mary's Chester in 1825 he was a farmer but by 1828 he was clerk living in Seller Street in Chester. He had become a maltster by 1836. In 1851 he he was described as a wine merchant, living in Foregate Street Chester, moving to King Street by 1861, where he lived until his death in August 1884. J & J Huxley were listed as wine merchants in Eastgate Street Chester in the 1857 Post Office directory. The business was eventually known as John Huxley & Son of Eastgate Street. It may have had a brewery in King Street as well as operating from what had become known as the Huxley's Vaults public house by 1956. By 1954 it was connected with the Chester Northgate Brewery Company. Huxley's Vaults appears in Chester directories until 1960. It was not there in 1962. The premises are now occupied (2013) by S S Milton, jewellers. |