The Lord Clyde

Continuing some features on old inns and pubs around Kimberley, this one dates from c1880. For reasons which are unclear it is named after Sir Colin Campbell, a distinguished Scottish soldier, Field Marshall and Baron Clyde of Clydesdale who served with distinction in many parts of the British Empire, including Canada and India. Why a small public house in rural Nottinghamshire should bear his name is a mystery. Lord Clyde never married, and so the title died with him.
As regards pubs in general in Nottinghamshire coal mining communities, the history is that many were owned by the landed gentry who were also owners of the coal mines. In the bad old days the pit owners paid the miners only partially in cash,with the rest of their wages being paid in tokens that could only be exchanged for beer in their pubs - an iniquitous practice uthat simply recycled cash straight back into the coffers of the landed rich, and also entailed the creation of substantial social and family problems - as one might imagine.