IRON DUKE #
63 and 64 (later 193) North Road
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MINE HOSTS:
1860 - 61 Isaac Walker
1866 James Bowling
1866 James Bowling
1869 Thomas Noblet
1869 - 70 Joseph Morley
1870 - 71 John Dickinson
1876 William Monk
1876 - 82 Joseph Hall
1883 - 85 Jane Hall
1887 George Johnson
1887 Richard Crook
1887 - 89 Joseph Dawson
1889 - 91 William Garth
1891 James William Shute
1892 Henry Brierley Crook
1892 Joseph Kearshaw (Kershaw)- Owned by Isaac Lawrence, Ince Brewery, Wigan.
1893 - 95 John Langley
1895 Margaret Pownall
1896 Frances Ellen Calvert
1897 James Thompson
1897 Mary Ann Stubbs
1898 - 1900 John Earnshaw
1900 - 07 John Winkley
1910 - 11 Ernest Jones - given elsewhere as surname 'James'
1913 Joseph Murray
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This beer-house, which was named in honour of the Duke of Wellington,
was the subject of a true story ('Wife Killing in Gardner Street')
by Keith Johnson, in his book:
"Chilling Tales of Old Preston."
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James Bowling, of the Iron Duke beerhouse, North Road, was charged with an offence of selling beer during prohibited hours by PC Nichol, committed on the 25th ult. PC. Nichol said that he visited the defendant's house at quarter to four o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th ult., and found four men inside. Upon a table before them was a half-gallon jug, containing about a gill of fresh-drawn ale.
Mr. James Simpson stated that he saw a number of men enter the defendant's house on the day named, shortly before four o'clock, and saw them in a short time come out again, followed by the policeman.
For the defence, William Kirkham said that he was one of the four men alluded to, but they had no drink served to them, nor was any drink drawn in a jug for them.
There being doubt in the case, the charge was dismissed.
Preston Herald 8th December 1866
Preston Herald 8th December 1866
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Wife Murder at Preston
A wife murder was committed at Preston, on Saturday night last. Between 7 and 8 o'clock, Robert Caton, living at 11 Gardner Street, a plasterer, about 45 years of age, went out, accompanied by his daughter Ellen, for the purpose of making purchases. In the course of the evening they called at the shop of Mrs. Gabbatt, North Road, and while they were buying some provisions, Mrs. Caton entered the shop drunk. She forthwith began to curse and swear at her husband, and use other abusive language towards him. She was at length induced by Mrs. Gabbatt to leave the shop; but directly afterwards she re-entered, and, she having spoken to her husband in coarse terms, he struck her on the mouth and put her out. Caton and his daughter afterwards left the shop, and having visited another to purchase a shawl for the daughter, they proceeded home. Mrs. Caton coming in a little after them, the disturbance was resumed.
The woman threw herself on a sofa in the kitchen, and continued to use most abusive language, and after a while, her husband went into the cellar, brought up a piece of wood about 2 ft long and an inch and a half thick, and with this struck her on the left temple.
His daughter, who was present, seized him and pushed him from the sofa, but he shook her off, and she then ran out of the house. She remained outside for a short time, and on re-entering, saw him strike her on the head with the piece of wood referred to two or three times.
He then left the house , being already, it is stated, partially intoxicated, and went to the IRON DUKE beerhouse, North Road, where he had two glasses of ale.
While he was there, a son of Mrs. Caton by a former husband came home, and found his mother lying on the sofa quite dead.
Ellen Caton went to the IRON DUKE beerhouse, and requested her father to come home; stating at the same time that her mother was dead. He came home shortly afterwards, and was then apprehended. When charged with murder he said, "I've done it."
At the police station he repeated remarked, in extenuation of his crime, that for several years he had had to contend with his wife's bad habits, but that he did not intend killing her.
Caton had been married to the deceased, who was his third wife, for about 8 years. She was about 43 years of age. During a quarrel about 12 months ago, the prisoner broke two of the deceased's ribs.
Caton was brought before the magistrates on Monday, and remanded.
Gravesend Reporter 12th December 1868
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ALLEGED CRUEL WIFE DESERTION IN PRESTON.
At the Preston Borough Police Court, this morning, an application for a maintenance order was made on behalf of Ruth Smith against her husband David Smith. The applicant was represented by Mr. Smith, and the defendant by Mr. Blackhurst.
The facts stated were that the parties were married at the Registry Office in September 1883. They lived together a short time. He then formed an acquaintance with another woman, whom he seemed to have more regard for than his wife, and consequently came home in the small hours of the morning. Naturally his wife complained of such conduct, whereupon he quarrelled with her and turned her out on the streets. She went to the Workhouse, but was subsequently persuaded to live with him once more.
A child was born, and the defendant lived with her for about six weeks after its birth. He again acted cruelly towards her, and turned her out, she having to pass the night on the doorstep.
He went to Bolton, and she received a letter from him, asking her to go and reside with him. She responded to the request, and on arrival in that town found he was staying at a common lodging house. The people at the lodging house subsequently told the defendant that his wife was not the woman with whom he had been previously cohabiting. He returned to his wife, and told her she had better leave him, and soon after forcibly ejected her.
She had no friends in the town, and proceeded to Little Bolton, where her sister had resided, but was unable to find her. In consequence of this treatment she suffered from brain fever, and on her recovery found tat her child had been buried.
She again forgave her husband, and whilst residing at the Iron Duke public house, Preston, he remained with her during March last year. A second child had been born, and an application was made for the maintenance of it as well as its mother, who was somewhat weakly and could not always attend her work. The defendant was earning good wages.
Mr. Smith stated that since receiving his instructions he had been unable to find an important witness, and, seeing that the paternity of the child was being questioned, he asked for a remand for a week. Mr. Blackhurst consented to this course, and the remand was granted.
Lancashire Evening Post 20th April 1887
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ON SALE, a SHIPPON; standing room for four beasts and one pony. Apply, IRON DUKE, North Road.
Lancashire Evening Post 21st August 1889
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Preston Guardian 26th October 1889
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TO BE LET, IRON DUKE INN, North Road, Preston.
Central Stand. Apply on the premises or to Isaac Lawrence and Sons, Ince Brewery, near Wigan.
Lancashire Daily Post April 8th 1895
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STOLEN FOWLS SOLD AT PRESTON - Yesterday, at the Chorley Petty Sessions, a labourer named William Haigh was charged with stealing ten head of poultry, value £1, the property of Thomas Baxendale, of Higginson's Farm, Brindle. On Sunday October 11th, the prosecutor counted his poultry, found ten missing, and informed the police. He had employed the prisoner as a driver of cattle, and in September last year he told him never to come near the farm again. Mary Hindle, wife of James Hindle, of the Fleece Inn, Preston, deposed to the prisoner asking her on October 13th to have some chickens. He told her he kept a poultry farm at Brindle, and she gave him an order. Frances Ellen Calvert, widow, who keeps the Iron Duke, Preston, also deposed to buying a couple of fowls from the prisoner, whom she knew as a man having worked for her husband. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed for trial.
Lancashire Evening Post 17th February 1897
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TO BE LET, IRON DUKE INN, North Road, Preston.
Apply Isaac Lawrence and Sons, Ince Brewery, near Wigan.
Lancashire Daily Post 4th July 1900
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WANTED, SERVANT GIRL, from country preferred.
Apply, Iron Duke Inn, North Road, Preston.
Preston Herald 19th January 1907
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James Bowling, of the Iron Duke beerhouse, North Road, was charged with an offence of selling beer during prohibited hours by PC Nichol, committed on the 25th ult. PC. Nichol said that he visited the defendant's house at quarter to four o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th ult., and found four men inside. Upon a table before them was a half-gallon jug, containing about a gill of fresh-drawn ale.
Mr. James Simpson stated that he saw a number of men enter the defendant's house on the day named, shortly before four o'clock, and saw them in a short time come out again, followed by the policeman.
For the defence, William Kirkham said that he was one of the four men alluded to, but they had no drink served to them, nor was any drink drawn in a jug for them.
There being doubt in the case, the charge was dismissed.
Preston Herald 8th December 1866
Preston Herald 8th December 1866
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Wife Murder at Preston
A wife murder was committed at Preston, on Saturday night last. Between 7 and 8 o'clock, Robert Caton, living at 11 Gardner Street, a plasterer, about 45 years of age, went out, accompanied by his daughter Ellen, for the purpose of making purchases. In the course of the evening they called at the shop of Mrs. Gabbatt, North Road, and while they were buying some provisions, Mrs. Caton entered the shop drunk. She forthwith began to curse and swear at her husband, and use other abusive language towards him. She was at length induced by Mrs. Gabbatt to leave the shop; but directly afterwards she re-entered, and, she having spoken to her husband in coarse terms, he struck her on the mouth and put her out. Caton and his daughter afterwards left the shop, and having visited another to purchase a shawl for the daughter, they proceeded home. Mrs. Caton coming in a little after them, the disturbance was resumed.
The woman threw herself on a sofa in the kitchen, and continued to use most abusive language, and after a while, her husband went into the cellar, brought up a piece of wood about 2 ft long and an inch and a half thick, and with this struck her on the left temple.
His daughter, who was present, seized him and pushed him from the sofa, but he shook her off, and she then ran out of the house. She remained outside for a short time, and on re-entering, saw him strike her on the head with the piece of wood referred to two or three times.
He then left the house , being already, it is stated, partially intoxicated, and went to the IRON DUKE beerhouse, North Road, where he had two glasses of ale.
While he was there, a son of Mrs. Caton by a former husband came home, and found his mother lying on the sofa quite dead.
Ellen Caton went to the IRON DUKE beerhouse, and requested her father to come home; stating at the same time that her mother was dead. He came home shortly afterwards, and was then apprehended. When charged with murder he said, "I've done it."
At the police station he repeated remarked, in extenuation of his crime, that for several years he had had to contend with his wife's bad habits, but that he did not intend killing her.
Caton had been married to the deceased, who was his third wife, for about 8 years. She was about 43 years of age. During a quarrel about 12 months ago, the prisoner broke two of the deceased's ribs.
Caton was brought before the magistrates on Monday, and remanded.
Gravesend Reporter 12th December 1868
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ALLEGED CRUEL WIFE DESERTION IN PRESTON.
At the Preston Borough Police Court, this morning, an application for a maintenance order was made on behalf of Ruth Smith against her husband David Smith. The applicant was represented by Mr. Smith, and the defendant by Mr. Blackhurst.
The facts stated were that the parties were married at the Registry Office in September 1883. They lived together a short time. He then formed an acquaintance with another woman, whom he seemed to have more regard for than his wife, and consequently came home in the small hours of the morning. Naturally his wife complained of such conduct, whereupon he quarrelled with her and turned her out on the streets. She went to the Workhouse, but was subsequently persuaded to live with him once more.
A child was born, and the defendant lived with her for about six weeks after its birth. He again acted cruelly towards her, and turned her out, she having to pass the night on the doorstep.
He went to Bolton, and she received a letter from him, asking her to go and reside with him. She responded to the request, and on arrival in that town found he was staying at a common lodging house. The people at the lodging house subsequently told the defendant that his wife was not the woman with whom he had been previously cohabiting. He returned to his wife, and told her she had better leave him, and soon after forcibly ejected her.
She had no friends in the town, and proceeded to Little Bolton, where her sister had resided, but was unable to find her. In consequence of this treatment she suffered from brain fever, and on her recovery found tat her child had been buried.
She again forgave her husband, and whilst residing at the Iron Duke public house, Preston, he remained with her during March last year. A second child had been born, and an application was made for the maintenance of it as well as its mother, who was somewhat weakly and could not always attend her work. The defendant was earning good wages.
Mr. Smith stated that since receiving his instructions he had been unable to find an important witness, and, seeing that the paternity of the child was being questioned, he asked for a remand for a week. Mr. Blackhurst consented to this course, and the remand was granted.
Lancashire Evening Post 20th April 1887
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ON SALE, a SHIPPON; standing room for four beasts and one pony. Apply, IRON DUKE, North Road.
Lancashire Evening Post 21st August 1889
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TO BE LET, IRON DUKE INN, North Road, Preston.
Central Stand. Apply on the premises or to Isaac Lawrence and Sons, Ince Brewery, near Wigan.
Lancashire Daily Post April 8th 1895
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STOLEN FOWLS SOLD AT PRESTON - Yesterday, at the Chorley Petty Sessions, a labourer named William Haigh was charged with stealing ten head of poultry, value £1, the property of Thomas Baxendale, of Higginson's Farm, Brindle. On Sunday October 11th, the prosecutor counted his poultry, found ten missing, and informed the police. He had employed the prisoner as a driver of cattle, and in September last year he told him never to come near the farm again. Mary Hindle, wife of James Hindle, of the Fleece Inn, Preston, deposed to the prisoner asking her on October 13th to have some chickens. He told her he kept a poultry farm at Brindle, and she gave him an order. Frances Ellen Calvert, widow, who keeps the Iron Duke, Preston, also deposed to buying a couple of fowls from the prisoner, whom she knew as a man having worked for her husband. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed for trial.
Lancashire Evening Post 17th February 1897
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TO BE LET, IRON DUKE INN, North Road, Preston.
Apply Isaac Lawrence and Sons, Ince Brewery, near Wigan.
Lancashire Daily Post 4th July 1900
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WANTED, SERVANT GIRL, from country preferred.
Apply, Iron Duke Inn, North Road, Preston.
Preston Herald 19th January 1907
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CENSUS RETURNS
1861
Isaac Walker 36 years Beerseller b. Goosnargh
Alice Walker 35 Wife b. Walton
Sarah Walker 14 Daughter b. Preston
Henry William Walker 10 Son b. St. Helens
Agnes Walker 8 Daughter b. Ashton ?
Alice Walker 6 Daughter b. Preston
Isaac Walker 4 Son do
Elizabeth Walker 2 Daughter do
1871
John Dickinson 34 years Beerseller b. Preston
Charlotte Dickinson 33 Wife do
Thomas Dickinson 13 Son do
John Dickinson 12 Son do
Charles Dickinson 8 Son do
Jane Dickinson 6 Daughter do
George Dickinson 1 Son do
Priscilla Dickinson 1 month Daughter do
1881
Joseph Hall 35 years Publican b. Penwortham
Jane Hall 35 Wife b. Preston
Jane B. Hall 20 Daughter do
1891
William Garth 49 years Innkeeper b. Kellett
Elizabeth Garth 45 Wife b. Bolton-le-Sands
Bartholomew Garth 7 Son b. Preston
Herbert E. Garth 5 Son do
1901
John Winkley 42 years Lic. Vict. b. Preston
Alice Winkley 43 years Wife do
John Winkley 15 Son do
Jane Winkley 13 Daughter do
Harry Winkley 8 Son do
Sidney Winkley 6 Son do
1911
Ernest Jones 42 years Innkeeper b. Salford
Margery Jones 36 Assisting in business b. Norfolk, East Dereham
Hilary Jones 20 Heel maker in slipper factory b. Salford
Eric Jones 14 Errand boy in printing works do
Arthur Jones 7 Son / school b. Preston
1911
Ernest Jones 42 years Innkeeper b. Salford
Margery Jones 36 Assisting in business b. Norfolk, East Dereham
Hilary Jones 20 Heel maker in slipper factory b. Salford
Eric Jones 14 Errand boy in printing works do
Arthur Jones 7 Son / school b. Preston
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1910 - The Landlord should read Ernest 'Jones' not James. Can be found on the 1911 Census
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