Pub Token, Noah's Ark, [1122 ref Cox]
Item reference number: 193
J. Phillipps
Noah's Ark
Newport, Mon.
S. A. Daniell
Maker
3D
52 St. Paul's Square
Birmingham
(The) Noah's Ark was in Skinner Street, between the Windsor Castle and the Ship on Launch.
John Phillips ran the pub in the early 1860s. Some tokens were later countermarked EP probably relating to one of his daughters Elizabeth Phillips who took over the pub in the mid 1860s. Later John's wife, Sabina, ran the business from 1868 until her death in early 1873. The pub was demolished in the 1880s to make way for the new road, Dock Street. See link below to a map showing the pub and proposed route of the new road.
Illustration from "Tavern Tokens in Wales" by Neil B Todd, National Museum of Wales, 1980.
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