LIVERPOOL HOUSE, Shepherd Street

LIVERPOOL HOUSE  #
Shepherd Street
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Became the "DOG AND RAT"
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MINE HOSTS:

1839 - 41             James Hope  -  owned by Thomas Lythgoe

1849 - 50             Samuel Leighton

1851 - 69             John Proctor  gaoled for 6 months in 1857.

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James Hope, beer-shop keeper, of Shepherd Street, was proceeded against, on two informations, for having, on the 31st January, sold one glass of whiskey, and a quarter of a pint of foreign wine.
Mr. F. Armstrong appeared on the part of the Crown, and Mr. J. Armstrong for the defendant.
The evidence being gone through, the Mayor pronounced the decision of the Bench for a conviction in the penalty of £12.10s in each case.
The magistrates at the same time intimated that they would recommend a still further remission of the penalty.
Preston Chronicle  18th May 1839
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In a report about a 'highway robbery' was the following:

"...............at a house of ill-fame, in that

beautiful neighbourhood, the Sandhole."

Preston Chronicle  12th November 1842

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 Preston Chronicle – 20th July 1850

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The area around Shepherd Street was known in

1853 as "The Sandhole."

...............Mary Ann Hodgson and Elizabeth Fazackerley,

two denizens of the "sandhole."

Preston Chronicle 12th March 1853

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.............in Bolton's Court, Shepherd Street,and the clump

 of buildings known as the "Sandhole."

Preston Chronicle  22nd May 1852

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.............but instead of going to the Theatre,
most of them repaired to the public-houses
and brothels in the "Sandhole."

Preston Chronicle 16th February 1856

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Preston Chronicle 19th September 1857

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