RING O'BELLS, High Street

RING  O'BELLS

6, High Street

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Almost certainly became the

"HIGH STREET TAVERN"

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MINE HOSTS:

1834 - 38                John Fishwick   d. c21.12.1860 aged 66 years.

1851 - 61                Ellen Crook
1861 - 66                Mrs. Ellen Moore  (Had a pawnbroker's shop at 4 High Street 1855 - 1883)

1868       See article of 9.5.1868

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Preston Chronicle   3rd March 1849

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Preston Chronicle 11th May 1861

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Preston Chronicle  13th December 1862
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ELLEN MOORE, of the RING O' BELLS, High Street,
had to pay a 5 shilling fine plus costs, for a violation of the Sunday Act.
Preston Herald   28th May 1864
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Preston Herald   26th May 1866
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EXTRAORDINARY CRUELTY & SUPERSTITION

One of the most cruel acts that has been heard of for

some time has occurred in this town.

On Saturday evening, a woman, named Sarah Salisbury,

residing at 64 Atkinson Street, went to the police station,

and reported that she had been informed by a militia-man

named Green, that he had bought a dog a day or two before

for a shilling; that he had skinned it; that the landlord of the

"Ring O'Bells" beer-house, High Street, had cooked it for 

supper; that a sweep named William Reed, and a man named 

Sharples, had eaten the dog; and that the man Sharples had 

been ill as a consequence of it.

Two police officers have enquired into the circumstances, and

have learned that a dog was killed at the beerhouse and stewed 

in the oven. Reed and Sharples went into the house when it was

being cooked, and they were in the act of taking it out of the oven

when the landlady told them not to touch it, as it was a dog, but 

they did not believe her and took no notice of her.

It was alleged that the dog was cooked for the purpose of getting

the grease out of it, to rub on the arm of a girl who had had an 

accident, in the belief that it would operate a "complete cure".

Preston Chronicle 9th May 1868

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CENSUS RETURNS

1851    Address in census given as 6, High Street.

Ellen Crook                        39 years                          Beerseller                         b. Inskip

William Carter                    42                                   Sawyer                             b. Walton-le-dale

1861      Address in census given as 86 High Street.

Ellen Crook                       49 years                           Beerseller                         b. Eccleston

William Webster                50                                    Sawyer                            b. Walton-le-dale

  Did Webster change his name from Carter? or did Ellen just like sawyers from Walton-le-dale?

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