EMPIRE HOTEL, Tithebarn Street

EMPIRE HOTEL

Tithebarn Street

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The name that the Empire Hotel acquired in
later years, was the colloquial name for it for
tens of years before - "The Jazz Bar"

MINE HOSTS:

1913                 Harry Joseph

1913                 Edwin Bush  - Managing Director of the Empire Theatre.

1917                 Caleb Margerison
1921                 John Watson
1924                 Samuel Heath    - Ada Darkin, manageress.

1926 - 27         George Henry Wood

1932                 Thomas Coupe
1932 - 34          Jack Brennan

1935 - 36          Michael Cavanagh  - late of Radnor Hotel, Hulme, Manchester.

1937 - 47         William C. Sharples
1948 - 50         Michael Keegan

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Taken from a Preston North End Match Day programme of 1932.
Supplied by Ian Rigby, PNE Official Historian

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CENSUS

1921 

John A. Watson                       36 years                  Hotel Proprietor                 b. Nelson

Alice Watson                           15  daughter                                                      b. Colne

Lilian Watson                          13  daughter                                                             do

Simpson Watson                     54 years                 Father                                  b. Barnoldswick

Mary Ann Watson                  16 years                 Servant                                b. Preston 

Ethel Stables                          31 years                      do                                    b. Yorkshire

William Harry Boocock         35 years         Visitor  /  Book-keeper                b. Eccles

Ada Boocock                          35 years          Visitor / House duties            b. Carlisle, St.Stephen's

Thomas  Bant                         65  years           Managing farrier                       b. Radnor

Elven Hedges                         33 years             Music Hall Artiste               b. Washington, USA

Blanche Hedges                     31 years                   House wife                     b. Paris, France

Jesse Jacobson                       34 years             Music Hall Artiste                b. Mexico    

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