NicKollSandPerks.co.uk
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Nickolls & Perks - Fine Wine Merchants Since 1797
Description
Established in the year 1797, the history of Nickolls & Perks has been consistently recorded. Earliest reference to the building which houses Nickolls & Perks Wine Merchants, derives with John Baker, who inherited the family home of 37 High Street Stourbridge in 1697. His windfall included: shop, outhouses, barns, stables, malt house, and washing pool. This was the first reference to trading on this site.
Spinster Hannah Baker together with her three sisters, resided their until 1713, when it was sold onto Thomas Foxhall for £1200. The eighteenth century saw no less than 18 changes of ownership, until 1797, when part of the property was leased to William Nickless for one year at five shillings only. George Richards later picked up the lease, when it became known as "the Liquor Vaults". James Nickolls had rented prior to this new agreement, and is recorded in the early 1830’s as a druggist, grocer and wine and spirit merchant.
The Board Alehouse opened in the 1860’s to complement the existing business, adding Ale and Porter to the range of goods and services offered. James Nickolls had passed on by now, leaving the business to his partner Francis Perks. Francis was licensee until 1928, when Harry Richard Reading took over . The Reading family owned both Nickolls & Perks and the well-known Edward Rutland & Co, at Bordeaux House on the corner of High Street and Foster Street, Stourbridge.
