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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