FOUNDRY ARMS, Shepherd Street

FOUNDRY ARMS

32 Shepherd Street

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MINE HOSTS:

1860                      John Brown

1863 - 1869          Simon Shorrock  -  Brewster Sessions report 28.8.1869 - Licence refused.

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A HOUSE JUSTIFIED BY RATS

John Brown, landlord of the Foundry Arms, 

32 Shepherd Street, was charged with keeping

 a disorderly house. P.C. Swift said that he went

to the defendant's house on Sunday morning, the

8th inst., when he found 21 men and prostitutes

within. The defendant was lying drunk on an old

pig crate, in a lumber room.

The defendant's wife appeared to answer the charge.

She said they had endeavoured to keep the house

as respectable as possible, and that if they did not

allow people to come into the house and do as they

wanted, they would get their brains knocked out.

She then submitted a small placard to the Bench, as 

a guarantee for the respectability of the house. 

It read - "John Brown, Foundry Arms, 32 Shepherd

Street, has on hand a number of rats, and offers an

excellent opportunity (having good accommodation)

for practising dogs in worrying this kind of vermin.

Further information may be had on application."

The Magistrates did not see the force of the placard,

and fined the defendant £5 and costs.

Preston Chronicle  21st July 1860

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Preston Chronicle 7th January 1871
Not necessarily the Foundry Arms, but brothels were
prevalent in this part of Preston.

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