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Friday, 3 February 2012

BUTCHERS' ARMS, Ward's End

BUTCHERS' ARMS
Ward's End
(known colloquially as "World's End")
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Became the 'Golden Lion'
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Election Expenses incurred at this hostelry in 1796 amounted to
£170. 6. 7.5d
MINE HOSTS:
1796                Robert Preston   DDK/1683/77
1812                John Dixon
1818 - 21         Richard Wilkinson - wife, Ellen, d. 2.1.1820 aged 33 years
1825                John Hough
1827 - 29        Henry Jamieson (Gemson)
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MARRIAGE:  On Tuesday last, Mr. Richard Wilkinson,
of the Butchers' Arms public-house, to Miss Sarah
Croasdale, both of Preston.
Lancaster Gazette  16th September 1820 
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Preston Pilot  13th October 1827
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