PARK PLACE TAVERN, Park Place

PARK PLACE TAVERN

16 Park Place

(off New Cock Yard)

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MINE HOST:

1867 - 69       Mary Ann Taylor

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In 1869 the licence was refused on the grounds

that it harboured thieves and prostitutes.

In 1870 Mary Ann Taylor was committed to the

Sessions for keeping a brothel. By this time the
beerhouse had lost its licence. See below.

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PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS

At the borough Police Court, yesterday, an

iron worker named Lawrence Hodges was 

charged with stealing a bottle of British wine,

the property of Mr. Thomas Heaton, Great

George Street.

On Saturday night Heaton and his wife were

at the Park Place Tavern beerhouse, and whilst

there a bottle of British wine was extracted from

a basket he had with him. Hosges was suspected,

and challenged with the offence, but he denied

having taken it. Upon a search being made, the

wine was found at a house in New Cock Yard,

where the prisoner had taken it.

He was sent to prison for a month.

Preston Chronicle 28th December 1867

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ADJOURNED BREWSTER SESSIONS

Mary Ann Taylor, Park Place Tavern,

Park Place, had her licence objected to.

P.C. Upton said he had visited the house,

and had seen prostitutes there. There were

two of them who lived there. P.C. Williams

said he had visited the house and had seen

two, and sometimes three prostitutes there.

He was asked by the Bench whether he had

seen more than three prostitutes there? and

he said, "No, Sir."

P.C. Watson said he had visited the house 

every night during the last month, and he had

seen prostitutes there, and on two or three

occasions he had seen convicted thieves there.

He had never missed finding prostitutes there

when he went. A memorial from the inhabitants

was handed to the Bench, stating that the house

was a nuisance, and was signed by all but one

of the neighbours.

The licence was refused.

Preston Chronicle  18th September 1869

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