In the 1851 census, Henry Ince is living down the Common, but isn't listed as selling beer. The first mention of the beerhouse itself is in a newspaper article in February 1860. The 1861 census shows Henry Ince aged 71, at Bee Hive Beer House, listed as a beer seller, living with his unmarried sons and a boarder. Almost anyone could buy a license to brew and sell beer, providing they were living in the premises.
Henry Ince dies in 1864 aged 74. By the 1871 census, his son, also Henry Ince is shown as beer retailer there. I have found no more reference to it as a beer house, and M.D. Smith wrote in About Adlington that it relinquished its license in 1873.
In the 1950s, there was a Mr T. Ince living at Beehive Cottage, when part of an aircraft landed on the roof. (View article)
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| Beehive Cottage c1982 |
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| Beehive Cottage c1982 |
My grandparents lived there in the 1970s and 1980s. My Grandmother says that it used to be a few cottages here, but that most of it was knocked down and rebuilt, leaving only the right hand side wall as the original part of the building.