Brown plaque № 41191
Overview
Brown plaque № 41191 is recorded as Commemorative plaque in England North Yorkshire. This brown commemorative plaque records: HALE'S BAR Inns were established near the world's strongest sulphur well by the 1660 s and the antiquity of Hale's Bar is shown by its cellars, as such excavations were prohibited by an Act of 1770. The Inn would have been known to Tobias Smollett who in 1766 visited Harrogate in which he set part of his novel 'Humphrey Clinker'.
Why it was made
The saved account records: This brown commemorative plaque records: HALE'S BAR Inns were established near the world's strongest sulphur well by the 1660 s and the antiquity of Hale's Bar is shown by its cellars, as such excavations were prohibited by an Act of 1770.
People and events
The saved account records: Known as the 'Promenade Inn' after the opening of the nearby Promenade Room in 1806, it changed it's name to 'Hodgson's' (c.1849) before adopting the name of it's new landlord, William Hale, in about 1882.
How it worked
The saved account records: The Inn would have been known to Tobias Smollett who in 1766 visited Harrogate in which he set part of his novel 'Humphrey Clinker'.
What remains
The saved account records: It was a lively coaching inn, with coaches such as 'The Courier', 'Tally Ho!' and 'Teazle' arriving and departing.
Why it mattered
Brown plaque № 41191 matters because the source ties commemorative plaque to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: Enlarged to the east in 1856, the inn was a favourite with Sir John Barbirolli who visited Harrogate each summer with the Halle Orchestra throughout the 1950's and 1960's.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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