HORSE SHOE HOTEL, Church Street

HORSE SHOE HOTEL   #

88 Church Street.
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Formerly the "Horse Shoe Hotel," it became the
"George Inn" in the 1920's when the George Hotel,
Friargate, closed down. It is believed that the date
was recorded in the tiled entrance of this Church Street
public house.
Source: Jim and Belle Webster, licensees here 1967 - 1991.

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MINE HOSTS:

1812                        Robert Nixon - Possibly married Miss S. Pye on 21.5.1814 in Preston.
1818 - 25                Edward Bennett

1828 - 29                William Ramsbottom

1834 - 36                James Hall

1841 - 42                Thomas Hall

1851 - 54                Edward Alston  -  see below

1855 - 56                John Newton

1856 - 59                Robert Lucas

1859 - 64                James Noblett

1864                       Sarah Noblett

1865 - 73               Thomas Dunderdale   Wife, Ann, died 7.12.1870, aged 41 years.

1873                       Richard Dunderdale

1873                       John Wilkinson

1877                       Pennington Ashton

1877                       Benjamin Turner

1877 - 78               Wilson Huntington

1881                       Thomas Walmsley

1882 - 83                Squire Robert Gray

1883 - 87                Elizabeth Mary Gray

1887                       Henry Brierley Crook

1888 - 89               James Ditchfield

1889 - 93               Jane Cottam

1893                       John Billington

1894                       Alice Evans

1894 - 97               James Trainer - former PNE see also 'LAMB HOTEL' & 'BLACK-A-MOOR-HEAD'

1897                       William Greer - former PNE

1897 - 1900           George Drummond  -  - former PNE. See also the 'GLOBE INN' Heatley Street.

1901                       Mary Mackintosh

1901                       William Nichol

1902 - 05                Christopher Britland

1907 -17                 Robert E. Sumner
1924                       Stanley Eteson
1967 - 91                Jim and Belle Webster

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EDWARD ALSTON
[Details received from a descendant]
My maternal 4x great grandfather was the Edward Alston who was the innkeeper in the 1850s. His daughter, Ellen, married an iron moulder from Kirkham called William Moxham, and they had seven children, including my ancestor Ellen Alice, who gave birth to my great grandmother Elizabeth Alice out of wedlock. Elizabeth married a soldier from Wigan called Lewin Henry Ricketts, who was in the Royal Field Artillery during WWI. They had five children themselves, including my maternal grandmother Helen Ricketts and lived in Bamber Bridge, where my mother was born and I was brought up.
 (My father's family is from Fulwood and other places in and around Preston)
Thanks to S.S.
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Preston Chronicle  2nd April 1853

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Preston Chronicle  25th August 1855
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Preston Chronicle  27th November 1858

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OLD IRISH WHISKEY, bonded in 1851

3s 6d per bottle at

JAMES NOBLET'S

HORSE SHOE INN, CHURCH STREET,

PRESTON

Preston Chronicle  17th December 1859

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SEASONABLE  ADVICE!!!

All parties are respectfully advised to

purchase their WINES and SPIRITS AT

NOBLET'S ESTABLISHMENTS:-

THE DUKE OF YORK INN, FRIARGATE

THE HORSE SHOE INN, CHURCH STREET

THE SAWYER'S ARMS and PLUMPTON 

BROOK INN, SNOW HILL.

Preston Chronicle  24th December 1859

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THE OLD-ESTABLISHED HOSTELRY

THE HORSE SHOE INN

CHURCH STREET, PRESTON

WILSON HUNTINGTON

Begs to inform his friends and the public that he has

entered upon the above Old-Established Hostelry, and

trusts that by supplying choice, WINES, SPIRITS, and

the best quality ALE, PORTER, &c., to merit a

continuance of their former favours.

Families supplied with BOTTLED ALE,  PORTER, 

and SPIRITS, equal to any in the town.

N.B. GOOD STABLING

Preston Chronicle  30th June 1877

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TO BE LET, a good LODGE-ROOM;

also capital six-stalled STABLE.

Apply to WILSON HUNTINGTON,

Horse Shoe Inn, Church Street.

Preston Chronicle  23rd February 1878

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JABEZ B. JONES will sell, on Tuesday 20th February, 1883,

ALL that Plot of LAND, with the BREWERY and other

Buildings lately erected thereon, situated behind the 

Horse Shoe Inn, Church Street, Preston.

The property is leasehold for 21 years from 11th September

1880, subject to an annual Ground Rent of £18 4s, and to the

covenants and conditions contained in the lease thereof.

Preston Chronicle 17th February 1883

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On Monday February 26th

To Wholesale Brewers, Innkeepers, and others.

JABEZ B. JONES & Son will Sell by Auction at

the Church Street Brewery, behind the Horse Shoe

Inn, Church Street, Preston,  the

STOCK-IN-TRADE of a WHOLESALE BREWER.

Preston Chronicle  24th February 1883

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Taken from the P.N.E. Handbook of the 1898 - 99 Season
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CENSUS RETURNS

1841

Thomas Hall               50 years                        Innkeeper

Hannah Hall               40                                  Wife

James Hall                  28                                     ?

William Hall                18                                 Son

Ellen Hall                    15                                 Daughter

Thomas Hall               10                                  Son

Elizabeth Hall               4                                  Daughter

1851

Edward Alston           36 years                         Innkeeper                       b. Highton  sic.

Jane Alston                33                                  Wife                               b. Hutton

Agnes Alston             63                                  Mother                                     ?

1861

James Noblet             29 years                        Publican                          b. Manchester

Sarah Noblet              30                                 Wife                               b. Chorley

William Noblet           52                                 Uncle                              b. Wharton ?

1871

Thomas Dunderdale   41 years                        Innkeeper                        b. Churchtown

1881

Thomas Walmsley      50 years                       Lic. Vict.                          b. Salmesbury

Winifred Walmsley     50                                Wife                                 b. Marton

Eleanor A. Walmsley  23                                Daughter                          b. Preston

William Walmsley       21                                Son                                  b. Sedburgh

1891

Jane Cottam               54 years                       Lic. Vict.                          b. Leyland

Annie Peebles             34                               Daughter                                    do

George Peebles          36                                Son-in-law                       b. London

Jane Louisa Peebles    6                                 Grand-daughter                b. Preston

1901

Mary Mackintosh      58 years - widow          Publican                           b. Farrington

1911
Robert Edwin Sumner   47 years                    Publican                           b. London
Jane Sumner                 47                     Wife / Assisting in business       b. Bamber Bridge
Edwin Sumner              24                          Son / Barman                      b. Preston
Albert Sumner              19                          Son / Engineer                     b. Bamber Bridge
Edith May Sumner        10                             Daughter                          b. Preston
Robert Walmsley          51                       Uncle / Millwright                   b. Walton-le-dale
William Bennison          40                   Visitor / Market Gardner            b. Leeds
Elizabeth Bristow          49 widow                 Nurse (monthly)                b. Whitehaven

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