JOLLY TARS, Mount Pleasant Street

JOLLY TARS   #

16 Mount Pleasant West

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Mount Pleasant Street

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Ladywell Street (1861 Census)

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Had previously been called the

"PACKET BOAT"

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In the 1841 Trade Directory, John Heaton was described as the landlord of:

"THE JOLLY TARS AND PACKET BOAT INN"

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For an image of the Jolly Tars, after it had finished trading,
click on:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/6267911243/in/photostream/

The building is believed to have been erected in
about 1798, around the time that the canal was
constructed.
When it closed, it became the offices of Baine's & Co.,
Coal Dealers.
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MINE HOSTS:
1814 - 15   * ?            Henry Wilcock - d. Monday 23rd October 1815, aged 70 years.
1812 - 17   * ?            John Dixon    -  Known at this time as the 'Jolly Sailor'
1817                           Mrs. Jenny Dixon   -   Known at this time as the 'Jolly Sailor' as well

1825 - 41                   John Heaton

1842 - 72                   Thomas Whiteside

1873 - 87                   Mrs. Susannah Whiteside

1888 - 91                   Peter Worden

1891                          Mary Ann Whalley

1892 - 93                   Joseph Eastham

1893 - 1902               Margaret Smedley

1902 - 04                   Mary MacKintosh
May 1905                  Licence relinquished.
     * No explanation re the years 1812 - 17

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Marling would be transported from the Fylde by canal, and unloaded
in the canal basin closeby. Marl was a type of clay, and its being dug
from the fields created all the marl-pits that we see today.

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 DEATH  On Monday last, Mr. John Dixon,

of Preston, Innkeeper, aged 40 years.

Lancaster Gazette  17th May 1817

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MARRIAGE:  On Tuesday last, Mr. Richard Tyson,

Innkeeper, to Mrs. Jenny Dixon, of the

'Jolly Sailor', both of Preston.

Lancaster Gazette  11th October 1817

Richard Tuson was the landlord at the New Legs of Man on Fishergate.

His wife died 12th April 1817, aged 32 years.

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT- LANCASTER, AUGUST 17th

(Before Mr. Justice Bayley)

FORGERY.

RICHARD WILLIAMS and HUGH QUIN were put to the bar, charged with having, on the 27th July, at Preston, uttered and put away a forged £5 note, purporting to be of the Bank of England, knowing it to be forged.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL for the County (Mr. Scarlett), shortly stated the case, and called the following witnesses:

Elizabeth Eves said she occasionally assisted as waiter at the house of Mr. Heaton, who is a publican, residing at Preston. On the 27th July, (it was actually on 27th February!!) the prisoners, Quin and Williams, came together to the house; it was on a Sunday evening. Williams called for a pint of ale, which was served to them, he then asked if he could get change, he was told he could; he then asked for a piece of paper, and pen and ink, as he said to make a reckoning; Quin also asked for some paper, which he got, and she saw Williams write some figures upon it; he then asked Quin what his wages amounted to; Quin answered, two pound all but threepence; after this Williams went to the witness, and opening a steel tobacco box, took from it a £5 Bank of England note; she saw no other note in the box; he gave her the note, and she reached it over to Mrs. Heaton, who gave it to her husband. Mrs. Heaton asked for the name of one of the men, and Williams stood forward, and said his name was John Wilson; Mr. Heaton wrote that name on the note, and the witness took it back.  was handed to to Mrs. Heaton, who gave her the change, four one pound notes and nineteen shillings, and sixpence in silver, and threepence in copper., which she gave to the prisoner Williams.

Another female corroborated the former witness; she locked the note up in a tin box, where it remained until the following Tuesday, when she marked it 'E. Heaton,' and gave it to her husband. (Here the note was handed to and identified by the witness).

John Heaton remembered the prisoners' coming into his house on the day in question; the witness Eves brought a five pound note from them to his wife, who gave it to him; he asked the names of the men; no answer was made at first, but on his repeating the question, the prisoner Williams came forward, and gave his name, "John Wilson," which witness put upon the note - (the note handed to witness) - that was the note, it had his hand-writing upon it.

Williams said, "Did I not give my name Williams?"    "No you gave it Wilson."

Williams: "If I were to take my oath before God, I can say that I gave my name Williams."

Mr. COURTENAY:  "Did you write the name on the note directly?"    "I did."

The prisoner repeated, with much vehemence, that he had given his name Williams.

John Gillespie said that he knew the prisoner Williams. He met him at Preston on the day in question; Williams told him that he and three others who were with him had been working at Chorley the week before, and had received a £5 note between them, and offered him a pint of ale if he could get it changed for them; Williams pointed to the prisoner Quin and two other men, who stood at a little distance, as his companions; Williams said he went to a butchers, and asked the price of a piece of meat weighing about three pounds and a half, and tendered a five pound note for change; the woman said she had not got change, but said he might get it at the public-house, which was near; they went to the public-house, and had a pint of ale to pay, for which he gave the £5 note to be changed; the woman gave him two £1 notes, two sovereigns, and 19s 9d in change; they then went away towards Fishwick, and met the other three men.

Williams said to Quin, "Here's a pound for thee." Quin said, "Curse thee, I want £2 14s;" Williams told him that he would have to be content with a pound for that time; he also gave each of the other men a pound; they went to a public-house and had some ale, for which Williams paid. He heard them say they were going to Chorley, where they were at work; they went away the Chorley road; witness returned to the public-house where the note was changed, and asked the landlord if it was a good one; the note was examined and found to be a bad one; the prisoners were pursued, and taken in a public-house in Salmesbury, a public-house in a contrary direction from the Chorley road; the constables put handcuffs on them as they sat, and then desired them to stand up; on the chair where Williams had been sitting, witness saw a new tobacco box; it was opened and found to contain a £5 Bank of England note, which also turned out to be bad.

Clarkson, the landlord of the second public-house, and his wife, recalled. Identified the note then in Court, as that they had received from the prisoner, Williams; they had it examined, and found it to be bad.

Thomas Halton, Superintendent of Police, sent in search of the prisoners, and had them brought back in custody the same day; Williams said he had found the two notes in a steel tobacco box on the high-road, on the Sunday before.

Rigby, the constable who took the prisoners into custody, produced the steel tobacco box found on Williams' chair, and the £5 note contained in it.

George Thompson, a bricklayer, said he had worked with the prisoner, Williams, and two other men, the week before the notes were passed; witness had received the wages of the four that week; Williams had worked four and a half days, and his wages came to 9s 6d.

Mr. Lee said he had been an inspector of notes at the Bank of England for the last 26 years.

[A £5 note was handed to the witness.]  That note was a forgery; it purported to be signed by Mr. Stock; there was a signing clerk of the name of Stock, but no cashier of that name. Mr. Stock used to sign one and two pound notes when they were in circulation, but no others. Signing clerks never signed £5 notes. The note handed to the witness had a watermark, but not that of the Bank of England, nor was it the Bank paper. He had no hesitation in pronouncing it to be a forgery. The two other notes were handed to the witness, which he also declared to be forgeries.

The prisoner Williams said he had found the notes as already described, and had changed them without telling Quin how he came by them. He did not know they were forged.

Quin made no defence. Mr. Justice Bayley summed up the case, and the Jury found both the prisoners guilty.

Morning Chronicle  (London)  20th August 1825

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A shorter version from a different paper - 

ASSIZES - NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER.

Richard Williams, aged 28, and Hugh Quin, aged 23, were charged with having put away, at Preston, a forged £5 Bank of England note, knowing the same to be forged.

Mr. Courtenay opened the pleadings, and the Attorney-General detailed the case to the Jury, after which:-

Elizabeth Eaves was called. She occasionally assists Mr. Heaton - he is a publican residing in Preston, and she remembers the evening of February 27th, when the prisoners came in, it was on a Sunday. 

Williams asked for a pint of ale, and it was served. Williams then asked for change, and he was replied to in the affirmative. Williams then came forward to the bar and Quin asked for paper, saw Williams make figures, and ask Quin what his wages were. Some little misunderstanding took place between them about the wages of Quin, and William, at length, pulled out a steel tobacco box and took a note out, it was the only note, and was a £5 Bank of England; the witness gave the note to Mrs. Heaton. She have the note to her husband, who desired the man to give his name. Williams came forward and said his name was John Wilson, saw Mr. Heaton write J. Wilson upon the note. The witness received four notes nineteen shillings, and some pence from Mrs Heaton, and gave it to the prisoner Williams. The men had drank three pennyworth of ale.

Finding the prisoners had no counsel, the Learned Judge wished to know if they had any question to ask the witness; they replied in the negative.

The Learned Judge charged the Jury, who returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. 

Judgement was recorded, with an assurance from his Lordship that care should be taken not to let them practice their offences in this country again.

Westmoreland Gazette   27th August 1825

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Richard Williams, 28, and Hugh Quin, 23, uttering forged £5 bank note, at Preston.

Death recorded.

Lancaster Gazette  27th August 1825

It would seem that the sentence of death was rescinded, and they were both transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania)

Thankyou to a descendant of Richard Williams for sharing this story with us.

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The St. Mary's Street referred to was adjacent to the R.C. Church of the same name,

that was at one time between Friargate and Corporation Street.

 Preston Chronicle  4th March 1837

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A VERY EARLY CRICKET MATCH:-

PRESTON CHRONICLE  28th OCTOBER 1837

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A few notes:

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Preston Chronicle  15th October 1842

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Preston Pilot  15th October 1842

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Preston Pilot  22nd October 1842 

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 Preston Chronicle  29th October 1842

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Preston Chronicle  2nd December 1843

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Preston Chronicle  22nd November 1845

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Preston Chronicle22nd November 1845

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Note the slightly different name of "Jolly Sailor"

Preston Guardian  4th August 1849

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The Oldest Publican in Preston

Mr. Whiteside, landlord of the JOLLY TARS INN,

Ladywell Street, which house he has kept since 

the Guild of 1942, died on the 9th instant, 

aged 64 years.

Lytham and Kirkham Times  21st February 1872

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A man named FitzSimmons, of Abbey Street, went the other day into the Jolly Tars Inn at Preston, apparently quite well, and ordered a pint of beer, which was supplied him. As he was raising the glass to his lips, he fell back dead.

Derby Daily Telegraph  24th September 1879

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Preston Guardian  11th June 1881

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TO BE LET, the JOLLY TARS HOTEL, Ladywell Street, Preston; full licensed; free to brew; Apply Jones and Sons, Valuers, Church Street, Preston.

Lancashire Evening Post   9th August 1900

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Mr. Blackhurst appeared in support of the application of Matthew Brown and Co. Ltd., for sanction for removal of the licence of the Jolly Tars, Mount Pleasant West, to premises about to be constructed in St. George's Road, at the corner of Albatross Street and Hawkhurst Road, at a cost of £2,500.

The secretary to the company, Mr. J. Crombleholme, said there was no opposition from residents on the estate. If the removal was granted his company was prepared to surrender the licence of the Jolly Tars and two 1869 beerhouse licences.

Lancashire Evening Post  8th March 1905

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Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 11 April 1907

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At the end of April 1907, the property that had once been the Jolly Tars Inn, was sold, at auction, for £185.

PRESTON HERALD    27th April 1907

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CENSUS RETURNS

1841

John Heaton                   40 years                      Innkeeper

Ellen Heaton                   45                               Wife

Ann Heaton                    15                               Daughter              

Mary Heaton                  14                               Daughter

Ellener Heaton                12                               Daughter

John Heaton                    9                                Son

1851

Thomas Whiteside          43 years                      Innkeeer               b. Ashton

Susannah Whiteside        41                               Wife                     b. Salmesbury

Ellen Whiteside               11                               Daughter / Scholar b. Preston

Catherine Whiteside         8 (probably 10)                  Daughter / Scholar         do

Elizabeth Whiteside          3                                Daughter                        do

Margaret Walmsley        27                                Servant                          do

Jane Holden                   13                                Servant                          do

1861

Thomas Whiteside         53 years                       Publican                b. Ashton

Susannah Whiteside       51                                Wife                      b. Salmesbury

Ellen Whiteside              20                    Daughter / Waitress          b. Preston                                              Catherine Whiteside       16 (probably 18)                  Daughter                       do

Elizabeth Whiteside        13                                Daughter                       do

Susannah Dickenson      22                                Servant                b. Churchtown

1871

Thomas Whiteside         63 years                       Innkeeper             b. Ashton

Susannah Whiteside       61                                Wife                     b. Salmesbury

Catherine Whiteside       28                                Daughter              b. Preston

Elizabeth Whiteside        23                                Daughter                       do

1881

Susannah Whiteside       71 years                       Innkeeper             b. Salmesbury

Catherine Whiteside       38                                Daughter              b. Preston

1891

Peter Worden                46 years                       Lic. Vict.              b. Longton

Catherine Worden          46                               Wife                     b. Preston

John Worden                  16                               Son                      b. Penwortham

Elizabeth Ann Worden    13                               Daughter                         do

1901

Margaret Smedley          52 years                      Publican                b. Oldham

Sidney Smedley               4                                Grand-son            b. Preston

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