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The ‘Jack Shrimpton’ Bar at The Bull Before the Inns, Public Houses & Hotels were built, as we know them today, it was primarily the monasteries that gave lodging to travelers. However, an enormous strain was placed on such monasteries as the followers of Christianity increased and so a new type of establishment was needed. Monasteries and private entrepreneurs funded and set about building Inns. By the end of the 16th Century there were about 6000 across the country. The Bull Hotel was one of these, built in 1688 amid times that had just seen the Great Plague (1665) and...
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