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Friday 2 March 2012

OLD BRITANNIA TAVERN, Friargate

OLD BRITANNIA TAVERN   #
144 Friargate
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Lancs. Evening Post 2007
See the letter (below) correcting the caption here.
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Not a good picture, but it does show where it
was situated, almost across from the
"Dog and Partridge Inn"
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MINE HOSTS:
1807 - 18                John Lill   -  after whom Lill's Court was named. See top photograph.
1825 - 34                John Seed - Mrs. Seed d. 26.7.1826, aged 34 years.
                                                               Remarried on 22.4.1834. See below.
1838                       James Seed  - Wife, Frances 31 yrs, d. 23.6.1838.
1841                       Mrs T. Hardman
1841 - 57                George Seed  - went to the Windmill Inn on Moor Lane.
1857 - 73                James Isherwood
1874 - 75                Thomas Bennett
1875 - 77                William Calderbank
1881 - 92                Henry Halstead  -  wide, Ellen, d. 7.3.1884 aged 41 years.
1892 - 97                William Wardley
1897 - 1904            John Bond
1907                        William Smith
1910 - 11                 Robert Carter
1913                        Joseph Mashiter - (Masheter)
1917 - 19                James Leo Worswick   d. September 1919
1919 - 33                Mrs. Jane Gertrude Worswick.  d. 6. 6. 1933
1936 - 40                Richard Turner
1944 - 48                Tom Standing   (Given as 'Standring' in 1948)
1952 - 57                Richard J. Sullivan
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DEATH:  On Thursday se'enight, Mrs. Lill, 
wife of Mr. Lill of the Britannia Tavern in
Preston.
Lancaster Gazette  19th January 1811
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Preston Chronicle  15th January 1831
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MARRIAGE:  On Tuesday last, at the Parish
Church, by the Rev. R. Carus Wilson, A.M. vicar,
Mr. James Seed, of the Britannia Tavern, to
Miss Francis Lowe, both of this town.
Preston Chronicle. 26th April 1834
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Preston Chronicle  13th March 1858
It isn't known whether Thomas Lill was related to 
John Lill, who was at the 'Old Britannia'.
I think it fairly safe to assume that he was.
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 Preston Chronicle  15th June 1861
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Preston Illustrated Times 18th July 1874
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Preston Chronicle  22nd August 1874
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PRESTON LANDLORD FINED
At the Preston Borough Police Court on Tuesday, Joseph Mashiter, licensee of the Old Britannia public house, Friargate, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on those premises.
Evidence was given by W.O. Yardley to the effect that one evening on visiting the inn, he found a woman worse for drink in the snug.  The woman, when he first saw her, was in the act of raising a glass half full of beer to her mouth. On asking her to stand up she lurched towards him.
The landlord, on his attention being called to the condition of the woman said, "Well, she's only had two gills here." The woman, proceeded the officer, had to be assisted out of the house and to the police station.
Mr. Parker, for the defendant said that he did not think he could argue that there had been sufficient supervision by the licensee who had never served this woman, neither did he know she was in the house. He was therefore compelled to plead guilty to a technical offence.
A fine of 20 shillings and costs was imposed.
Preston Herald   18th October 1913
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FOR SALE
South African Grey Parrot, red tail; 
warranted good talker. - Old Britannia, Friargate, Preston.
Lancashire Evening Post   2nd August 1918
PERMITTING  DRUNKENNESS
PRESTON LANDLADY TO PAY A NOMINAL FINE
At Preston, this morning, Jane Gertrude Worswick, licensee of the Old Britannia Inn, Friargate, Preston, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on her licensed premises.
Mr. Fazackerley said that at 8.20 on Saturday night, August 20th, Detective Sergeants Rowcroft and Garth entered the public house and found, in a room near the bar, a man named Burns, who was obviously drunk, and in front of whom, on a table, was a pint pot containing beer.
Detective Sergeant Rowcroft said that when the licensee was told that she would be reported for permitting drunkenness she said, "I did not permit it; when the man came in I could see he had had enough, and I told my servant not to serve him."
In reply to Mr. Hodgson, defending, Mrs Worswick said that Burns said he was a Sinn Feiner, and he had just come from Belfast, and that he had a revolver and would shoot her. Burns talked as drunken man.
DS Garth gave evidence as to Burn's condition, and PS Gregory and PC Hill spoke as to his condition at the police station.
Mr. Hodgson submitted that there was no evidence that the man had obtained drink in the house, or that the pint pot was his vessel. Twice that night Mrs. Worswick had refused drink to Burns. In the landlady's opinion, Burns was not drunk, but knowing his quarrelsome nature she thought he had had enough.
Mrs. Worswick said a man asked Burns to have a drink, and she said, "No, he has had enough; he had better go home." She then went to attend to another room, and thought the man had gone before Detective Rowcroft came in. She did not know whose the pint pot was when the police were in the house, but it was subsequently claimed by a man named Stephenson.
Frederick Halliwell, insurance agent, said he heard the landlady's refusal. After that Burns went into the room in which the police found him, and no drink went into that room after Burns entered.
Thomas Cookson and Isabel Cookson, brother and sister of the licensee, spoke to Burns walking steadily into the house. Both heard Mrs Worswick refuse to allow him to have a drink, and Burns was not served with anything.
William Stephenson, Kilshaw Street, Preston, labourer, said the pint pot mentioned in the case was his.
The Bench decided to impose a penalty, but owing to the good character of Mrs. Worswick, made it the nominal sum of 20 shillings.
Lancashire Evening Post   2nd September 1921

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REFUSED DRINK,
BUTTED LANDLORD THREE TIMES
When the landlord of a Preston public house refused to serve him with drink, a 21 year old seaman butted him in the face three times, said Mr. P. Shaw, prosecuting, at Preston today.
Leo Speariett, of Crowle Street, Preston, was fined 10 shillings for being drunk and disorderly, £5 for assaulting a police officer, and £5 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Richard Sullivan, licensee of the Old Britannia, Friargate, after pleading guilty to all three offences, and was ordered to pay £3 3s 0d costs.
Speariett pushed his way behind the bar, and Mr. Sullivan struck him on the head with a small mallet in an attempt to keep him out. It was then that Mr. Sullivan was butted, and suffered a cut above the eye which temporarily blinded him.

HELMET KNOCKED OFF 
After the police were called, Speariett struggled with PC. Foster. The constable's helmet was knocked off and Speariett's foot touched his face. He also felt his leg being bitten.
Speariett said he was unable to remember anything about the incident.
Speariett's wife, who asked permission to speak, said the landlord struck him as he was leaving the hotel, and Speariett only struck beck in self-defence.
Lancashire Evening Post   13th March 1956
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CENSUS RETURNS
1841
George Seed                        50 years                     Publican
Martha Howard                   19                              Female Servant

1851
George Seed                          62 years                   Innkeeper                   b. Preston
Susanna Seed  (nee Howard)  32                           Wife                           b. Burnley
George Seed                        21                               Son                           b. Preston
Susanna Seed                        5                               Daughter                             do
Mary Lillie Seed                    2                               Daughter                             do
Easter Ann Seed                    2 months                   Daughter                             do

1861
James Isherwood                 38 years                     Innkeeper                   b. Scotland
Sarah Isherwood                  52                              Wife                                   do

1871
James Isherwood                 45 years                     Lic. Vict.                     b. Scotland
Sarah Isherwood                  49                             Sister                                    do
Mary Isherwood                   52                             Sister                                   do
Elizabeth Seed                      20                             Domestic Servant        b. Preston

1881
Henry Halstead                     41 years                    Lic. Vict.                    b. Colne
Ellen Halstead                       37                             Wife                           b. Preston
William Halstead                   21                             Son / Brewer                       do
Alice Halstead                      12                              Daughter                             do
John Halstead                       10                              Son                                    do
James Halstead                      7                               Son                                    do

1891
Henry Halstead                    51 years                     Lic. Vict.                    b. Colne
Alice Halstead                     53                              Wife                           b. Preston
John Halstead                      20                               Son                                    do
James Halstead                    17                               Son                                    do

1901
John Bond                           43 years                     Publican                     b. Preston
Ann Bond                            42                              Wife                                   do
George Bond                       20                              Son                                    do
Thomas Bond                      16                              Son                                    do

1911
Robert Carter                      60 years                    Publican                      b. Preston
Susannah Carter                  62                             Wife                            b. Claughton
Edmund Carter                   34             Son / Labourer / Licensed Vict.    b. Preston
Mary Carter                       28                              Daughter                              do
Robert Carter                     24                 Son / Flagger & Slater                      do
Joseph Carter                     23                 Son / Cabinet Maker                        do
William Carter                    20                      Son / Plumber                              do
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