PARK HOTEL, East Cliff

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East Cliff

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a.k.a. "NEW RAILWAY HOTEL"

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*Understood to have first opened on the 4th September 1883
ie. 139 years ago.
When it first opened it didn't have an on-licence, and staff had to source its
alcoholic beverages from elsewhere to supply their resident guests.
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If you're looking for the Park Hotel in Tulketh Road, Preston, 
Please click HERE
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Overlooking the Ribble and Miller Park, this former home of the Simpson's Gold Thread Works
family, became a hotel, and more recently it's been taken over by the Lancashire County
Council and used as offices.

Lancashire Evening Post 29th December 2007

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The Park Hotel and water feature in Miller Park.

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MINE HOSTS:

1882 - 98       Henry Taylor   -  Licensee

1884 - 85       Alfred George COLLINS (Manager) - wife, Katherine Darricott Douglas, 39 year died 14.12.1884

1889 - 95      Alexander MALCOLM (Manager)

1899 - 1901  Arther Fitzroy Waters  -  Licensee

1901              Harold J. Weston  (Manager)

1904 - 10      Archie J. P. THOMPSON  (Manager)

1913              B.C.SLACK

1917              P.S. MESSAGE

1932 - 44      L.M.S Railway Company.

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The plans for the proposed walkway from the railway station to the Park Hotel

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Plan, showing the (glass-covered) walkway

directly to and from the station to the Park Hotel.

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This plan shows the approach to the Park Hotel

from East Cliff Road, across 'Vicar's Bridge.'

Ironically, this bridge, as I post this plan, (February 2013)

is being demolished.

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'Vicars Bridge' February 2013, in the early throes of its demise.

The Park Hotel, as was, can be seen in the background.

Photo courtesy of Middleford Miss, on Flickr:

HERE

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Preston Chronicle  24th February 1883

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Preston Chronicle  18th January 1890

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 Preston Chronicle  27th August 1892

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There follows a series of menus from the annual
PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS RUGBY CLUB
dinners from 1902:

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1902 (above)
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1903 (above)
Note the humour.
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1905 (above)
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1906 (above)
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CENSUS RETURNS

1891

Alexander Malcolm                      30 years                       Hotel Manager          b. Scotland

Maud Malcolm                             28                               Wife        b. Abbotts Bromley, Staffs

Alexander Malcolm                        1                                Son                           b. Preston

1901

Harold J. Weston                         30 years                      Hotel Manager          b. Dorset

Mary S. Weston                          24                             Wife / Manageress       b. Aston, Staffs.

Ethel M. Stafford                         20                               Book-keeper             b. Norfolk

Frances E. Petchell                      25                          Book-keeper             b. Turnhill, Salop.

Mary A. Simpson Opie               23               Housekeeper    b. Newport, Monmouthshire

Willen Bruger                              25                               Chef                           b. Holland

Leon A. Leprin                           21                               Cook                          b. Vire, France

William Clark                              18                               Kitchen Porter            b. Preston

Albert A. Sullivan                        23                               Cook                         b. Chatham

Marin Lagmarie                           19                               Cook                         b. Paris

Maria Heavey                             45                               Scullery Maid             b. Kilkenny

Nathaniel Thompson                   21                    Kitchen Porter            b. Stockton-on-Tees

Mary Ann Smith                         24                               Stillroom Maid            b. Workington

Annie Rowbottom                      18                               Stillroom Maid            b. Crewe

Sarah Miller                               27                               Waitress                     b. Garstang

Emily Green                               23                               Waitress                     b. Holyhead

Mary Willan                               21                               Waitress          b. Newry, co Armagh

Mary E. Edgley                          18                               Waitress                     b. Crewe

Mary Oakley                              18                               Waitress                    b. Dudley, Staffs

John J. Boyle                              25                               Porter                        b. Preston

William McClaren                      20                               Porter                        b. Edinburgh

Arthur J. Wynne                         19                               Porter         b. Shevington, Cheshire

William B. Greatbanks                18                              Porter            b. Nantwich, Cheshire

Thomas Norbury                        15                              Pageboy                     b. Hollinwood

Mary Lambert                            28                              Chambermaid             b. Sheffield

Caroline Smith                            20                              Chambermaid             b. Workington

Ada Mathwin                             29                              Housemaid      b. Seacombe, Cheshire

Louisa Milton                             18                              Housemaid                 b. Dalton

Matilda Johnson                         20                              Housemaid                 b. Southport

George Caunce                          34                              Plateman                    b. Burscough

George Greatbanks                    15                              Pageboy                     b. Crewe

1911

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