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Saturday, 17 May 2025

OXFORD TAVERN, Bowker Street

OXFORD TAVERN   #
1 Bowker Street
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I would have thought that number 1 would be on the
opposite corner of Bowker Street, but this is where it was
shown on a map in the L.R.O.
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I'll accept it until I find out any differently!

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MINE HOSTS:
1850                       Robert Mayor   -  Died, on 5th February 1850, aged ?
1851 - 54               Thomas Conlan
1859                       John Singleton
1865                       William Gardner
1869                       H. Sellers    (Thos. Seller Preston Chronicle 4.12.1869)
1870 - 78               William and Jane Sanderson
1878 - 85               Mary Huntington
1885                      Jane Knowles
1885 - 86              Andrew Chadwick
1886 - 87              Richard Fazackerley
1887                     Mary Clarke
1887 - 89              Michael Cains
1889                     William Brownlow
1889                     James Thomas Burton
1889                     Hugh Spencer
1890 - 1901         Matthew Burns  (written as 'Barnes' in the 1891 Census)
1904                     John Gregson
1904 - 11             William Shaw
1913 - 17             William Bagwell
1920 - 21             Mary Carney
1932  NO MENTION - Possibly gone a few years prior to this date.
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 Preston Chronicle  26th August 1865
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Preston Chronicle  1st June 1872
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 Preston Chronicle  19th July 1879
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Taken from PNE Football Records Magazine up to the 1906 - 07 Season.
The advert relates to the year 1907.
Magazine provided by Ian Rigby, the Official PNE Historian

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Lancashire Evening Post  6th February 1917
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The above two extracts are from the diary of the man who took over the Oxford Tavern after it ceased being a beerhouse.
This information has been given to me by a descendent of the man.
Thank you very much. 
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CENSUS RETURNS
1851
Thomas Conlan                       28 years                      Beerseller                        b. Ireland
Elizabeth Conlan                     41  wife                                                              b. Preston
Ralph Mayor                           11  Step-son                Scholar                                    do
Alice Mayor                             9   Step-daughter            do                                        do
Nancy Midford                       54  Sister-in-law         Housemaid                      b. Blackburn
       
1861
Elizabeth Conlon                    53 years, widow         Heald knitter                   b. Preston
Ralph Mayor                           21   son                      Boiler Maker                           do
Alice Mayor                            19   daughter              Heald knitter                           do
     Still living at 1, Bowker Street.  Perhaps running beerhouse part-time
 
1871
William Sanderson                  33 years                      Beerseller                        b. Goosnargh
Jane Sanderson                      32                                Wife                    b. Bank Barron?, Westmorland       Alice Sanderson                     10                                Daughter                         b. Preston
Thomas Sanderson                  8                                 Son                                        do
Eleanor Sanderson                  6                                 Daughter                                 do
William Sanderson                  4                                  Son                                        do
Joseph Sanderson                   1                                  Son                                        do
     ?      Sanderson                  1 month                        Son                                        do

1881
Mary Huntington                   52 years                         Beerseller                       b. Carlisle

1891
Matthew Barnes                    35 years                        Beerseller                        b. Garstang
Louisa Barnes                       31                                 Wife                                b. Worcester

1901
Matthew Burns                     45 years                        Beerhouse Keeper           b. Garstang
Elizabeth Burns                     28                                 Wife                                b. Salford
Marion Burns                        4                                  Daughter                          b. Preston

1911
William Shaw                       44 years                        Beerseller                         b. Preston
Elizabeth Ellen Shaw             42                                Wife                                         do
     Noted in the census as having one child still living, but not shown as living here.
 
1921
Mary Carney                        46 years                      Lic. Vict.                            b. Blackburn
May Shannon                       24                             Ring Spinner                        b.West Derby, L'pool.
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