Zetland Hotel at 3 North Railway St.
An inn or beer house since 1864 possibly earlier, by 1938 Walter Oughtred, well known Seaham photographer lived and worked here.
Adam and Eve's. The man standing in doorway is unlikely to be Ralph Fair, born 1813. It is more likely to be his son Ralph D Fair born 1840 who was never landlord but listed here as a gardener when his mother Jane was licencee in the 1880s and 90s after his father's death. This would place the picture as around 1895-1900.
It is also possible that he is Ralph's younger son Thomas, born 1856 who became landlord around 1900 and was licencee until 1910.
Colour by D Angus
