DERBY ARMS HOTEL, 4 Back Lane

DERBY ARMS HOTEL   #

Formerly the "Cock and Bottle"

Address variouly given as:   'Bottom of Lord Street'

Back Lane

4 Back Lane

1 Back Lane.

See map below:

The opening opposite the Derby Arms is Earl Street, when the current Earl Street continued through the Town Hall and
the old Post Office buildings, and joining Back Lane, or
Market Street, as it is now called.
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The top right hand of this map is now the northern extreme
of the Market Place. New Street began roughly where
the War Cenotaph is.

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MINE HOSTS:

1807 - 08         James Taylor        wife died 17.3.1807; see below.  J.T. died 1.8.1812 after leaving.
1812 - 16        Thomas Eastham
1818                J. Townson

1824                John Dobson

1825 - 27        William Cookson
1828 - 29        John Mayor
1832               Thomas Jackson
         - 37        William Cowell   d. 22.11.1837 aged 49, 'after a lingering illness.'

1838 - 53        Mrs. Agnes Cowell     -     Living at 2 Gt. Avenham Street in 1861, aged 73 years.

1854                James Cowell   - Barrett's Directory gave James Cowell in 1851 

1857 - 65        John Southworth

1866 - 68        Mrs Ann Southworth  -  widow  d. 18.3.1869 aged 54 years

1869 - 74        Bryan Holme

1874               Ellen Holme

1876 - 77        Frederick James Hinton

1877 - 81        Joseph Sim

1881 - 92        Margaret Poole

1892 - 94        Pilkington Bamber Parkinson

29th August 1894   NO APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF LICENCE.

                                    - PULLED DOWN -

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The Derby connection with Preston has been handed down the

generations by the names of some of our inns. There has been

a Derby Arms in the town since about 1790 (probably when it

took the name away from the "COCK AND BOTTLE".

After the Derby Arms, Back Lane, closed down, the Joiners'

Arms, which stood in Lord Street on the other side of Lancaster

Road (where the Guild Hall now stands) was renamed

the "Derby Arms."  Both the premises were owned by

the Derby family.

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DEATH:  On Tuesday 17th March, 1807,
Mrs. Taylor, wife of Mr. Jas. Taylor of the
Derby Arms public house, Preston.
 Lancaster Gazette  21st March 1807
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Lancaster Gazette  11th June 1808
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DEATH:  On Wednesday se'enight, Mr James Taylor,
formerly of the Derby's Arms public-house, in Preston,
aged 54 years.
Lancaster Gazette  18th April 1812
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DEATH:  On Sunday se'enight, Mr. Thomas
Eastham, of the Derby's Arms, in Preston,
Aged 38 years
Lancaster Gazette. 9th November 1816
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MARRIAGE
On 7th April 1929, John Mayor, late of the Derby Arms, Preston, to Mrs. Jane Walmsley, of the White Lion, Sykes, Preston.
Lancaster Gazette   18th April 1829
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Preston Chronicle   28th April 1832
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DEATH
On the 28th February 1836,
of   SMALL POX,
Mr. Thomas Foxcroft, 
Derby Arms, Back Lane,
Aged 39 years.

Preston Chronicle  5th March 1836

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MARRIAGE:  On the 27th February 1838, at
the Parish Church, Preston, Mr. William Bleasdell,
to Agnes, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Cowell,
of the Derby Arms Inn, Preston.
Blackburn Standard  7th March 1838
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Preston Chronicle  30.9.1873

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CENSUS RETURNS

1841
Agnes Cowell               45 years               Publican
Ann Cowell                  21                        Daughter
William Cowell             17                        Son
John Cowell                 14                        Son
Elizabeth Cowell           12                        Daughter
Mary Cowell                  8                        Daughter
Robert Morley              50                        Ostler

1851

Agnes Cowell              60 years                Publican                   b. Killington

Septimus Cowell          29                         Son                          b. Preston

Elizabeth Cowell          22                         Daughter                           do

Mary Cowell               18                         Daughter                           do

Robert Morley             58                         Ostler / Brewer        b. Pilling

1861

John Southworth         45 years                Innkeeper                  b. Longton

Ann Southworth          45                         Wife                          b. Walton

1871

Bryan Holme               35 years               Innkeeper                   b. Lancaster

Ellen Holme                 30                        Wife                           b. Withnell   (nee Wilkins)

Ann Holme                   7                         Daughter                     b. Kendal

Mary Holme                 6                         Daughter                     b. Preston

John Holme                  2                         Son                                     do

Martha Wilkins            23                        Sister-in-law                       do

Mary Abram                14                        Servant                       b. Solom

1881

Margaret Poole           39 years               Publican                      b. Preston

Alexander W. Poole    17                        Son                                    do

Thomas W. Poole        15                        Son                                    do

1891

Margaret Poole           50 years               Lic. Vict.                    b. Lea

Thomas W. Poole       25                         Son                                  do

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