GRIFFIN'S HEAD, Lancaster Road

GRIFFIN'S HEAD   #

116 Lancaster Road North / 1 Fish Street

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MINE HOSTS:

1841 - 43                John Worthington
1853                       Richard Sharples

1861                       John Parson

1869 - 71                Robert Charnley
1875                       Eleanor Hudson

1877 - 79                Rowland Marshall    d. 1879

1879                       Eleanor Marshall

1879 - 82                Thomas Hayton

1882 - 84                John Rigg

1884 - 85                John Walker

1885 - 94                John Massey

1894 - 95                Jane Massey

1897 - 99                Walter Mortimer Pegg

1899 - 1900            Roger Milner

1900 - 01                Thomas Burman

1901 - 04                Robert Kirkham

1907                        Samuel Briggs

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This is a very interesting addition. Is it possible that this
house had previously been known as the "Queen's Head Inn"?
The order for the "Bell's Weekly Advertiser" a sporting paper, was written locally, by or on behalf of the editor of the Preston Chronicle, Isaac Wilcockson.

It is, of course, possible, that there is a human error
involved.
Dated:   August 21st 1841
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SELLING  DRINK  DURING  PROHIBITED  HOURS.
George Sharples, landlord of the Griffin Head Inn, Lancaster Road, was summoned for selling drink during prohibited hours. PC Watson said that at 10 minutes to twelve o'clock the previous Sunday he was on duty in Lancaster Road, when he saw the defendant hand out to a man a jug of ale. He told the landlord that he would report him, to which he replied, "You must look over it this time. I am not in the habit of filling drink."
Mr. Edelston appeared for the defendant, and called a man who stated that he received the beer for a sick person. 
The Bench dismissed the case upon payment of costs.
Preston Chronicle   5th February 1870
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Preston Guardian  10th August 1872

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From around 1880

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CENSUS RETURNS

1871

Robert Charnley           48 years              Beerseller                   b. Dutton

Elizabeth Charnley        38                       Wife                           b. Adlington

Mary Charnley              16                       Daughter                   b. Preston

Alice Charnley              13                       Daughter                            do

Lucy Charnley               9                        Daughter                            do

Frederick Charnley        7                        Son                                    do

Edmund Charnley          5                        Son                                     do

Elizabeth Charnley         3                        Daughter                            do

Annie Charnley             2                         Daughter                            do

Gertrude Charnley        11 months            Daughter                           do

1881

Thomas Hayton            32 years              Lic. Vict.                  b. Walton-le-dale

Alice Hayton                 28                      Wife                         b. Preston

Jane Hayton                   5                        Daughter                          do

Mary Hayton                 2                        Daughter                           do

Lillie Hayton                  1                        Daughter                           do

1891

John Massey                62 years              Lic. Vict.                   b. Preston

Jane Massey                65                       Wife                                   do

Sarah Massey              21                       Daughter                            do

1901

Thomas Burman          22 years              Publican                     b. Hull, Yorks.

Matilda Burman          23                        Wife                          b. Fleetwood

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BAY HORSE 18 Pitt Street

BAY HORSE   #

18 Pitt Street

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MINE HOSTS:
1831                         John Worden
1831                         Edward Hogan

1838 - 53.                William Whittingham (Brewer)
1861                         Philip Abbott

1865 - 69                 Christopher Alston

1871                         Robert Clarkson

1874                         John Rhodes

1874 - 89                 Mrs Fanny Houghton

1889 - 94                 Thomas Houghton  - son of Fanny Houghton.

1895 - 97                 Thomas Higginbotham

1897 - 99                 Charles Arthur Greenwood

c. 1899     PULLED DOWN

4th April 1900  An application to build a house across the street in place of this one was refused.

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Preston Chronicle   26th March 1831
I have no evidence that Worden was the landlord here other than the evidence in these two pieces from the Preston Chronicle.  The sale notice clearly includes 'several barrels of excellent ale', and Worden's occupation as a currier, lends itself to the name of the beerhouse This linkage wasn't uncommon.
Also, the Bay Horse was the only beerhouse ever in Pitt Street.
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Preston Chronicle   28th May 1831
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NARROW ESCAPE

On Saturday, some men were engaged in shunting a wagon,

containing 6 tons of coal, on to a siding of the railway, in Pitt

Street, when the wagon ran off the rails and fell into the yard

beneath, six feet below the level of the railway. It alighted on

a pig sty, from which Mr Christopher Alston of the Bay Horse

Inn, had emerged only an instant before, and killed a sow and 

five young pigs

Preston Chronicle  1st December 1866

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1883
In November 1883, Riley was hanged.
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CENSUS RETURNS

1841
William Whittingham            25 years              Labourer                           
Betty Whittingham               30                       Wife           
John Whittingham                 7                        Son     
Thomas Whittingham            3                        Son
Mary Whittingham                6 months            Daughter

1851
William Whittingham           40 years               Beerseller                             b. Bolton-le-sands ?
B. Whittingham                   40                       Wife / Housekeeper              b. Walton-le-dale
J. Whittingham                    16                       Son / At home                      b. Preston
T. Whittingham                    13                      Son / Scholar                                do
M.A. Whittingham               10                      Daughter / Scholar                        do
E. Whittingham                    8                        Daughter / Scholar                        do
N. Whittingham                   1 month              Daughter                                       do

1861
Philip Abbott                       34 years              Brewer                                 b. Broughton, Lancs
Mary Abbott                       34                       Wife                                     b. Preston
Ellen Abbott                         5                        Daughter                                       do
Jane Abbott                          3                        Daughter                                      do
Joseph Abbott                      2                        Son                                              do
George Abbott                     1 months            Son                                               do
                             
1871

Robert Clarkson                 27 years               Licensed Victualler               b. St. Michaels

    ?     Clarkson                  27                        Wife                                     b. Milnthorpe

1881

Fanny Houghton                 64 years              Beerseller                              b. Wesham

Mary Houghton                  19                       Daughter                               b. Preston

Thomas Houghton              17                       Son                                               do

1891

Thomas Houghton              28 years              Beerseller                               b. Preston

Agnes Houghton                30                       Wife                                              do

Arthur Houghton                 1                        Son                                               do

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CANAL FACTORY INN, Moor Lane

CANAL FACTORY INN

Moor Lane

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Precise location of this Inn isn't known.

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MINE HOST

1818          Richard Warwick

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Notes:   In 1818 Richard Warwick was also listed as being at the 

"WINDMILL INN" also on Moor Lane.

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Further to the above, there is a reference in Anthony Hewitson's

"NORTHWARD," to the 'Canal Foundry' in Preston. Could he have

been referring to something connected with that?

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To add some doubt to that theory, the 'Canal Foundry' was in

Barracks Street, off Marsh Lane.  From "Railways Around Preston"

by Gordon Biddle.

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Bear in mind that the 'Sovereign' or 'Royal Sovereign' were

adjacent to the first mill in Preston, on Moor Lane, in Warwick Street.

Note the name of the licensee here - Warwick.

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Notes added 28.9.2012
"Canal Factory" was a mill that was opened in 1799.
&
The old Friarage in Marsh Lane, formerly the House
of Correction, was converted into a cotton mill in 1799.
Could these two be connected?
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Although the address I had was Moor Lane, it is not
impossible for that to be erroneous.
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Certainly 'Canal Factory' sounds as though it was close
to the canal, and the Friary / House of Correction, was
certainly just to the west of the canal.
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FIGHTING COCKS, Moor Lane

FIGHTING COCKS     #

Moor Lane

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I believe that this inn, and the one of the same name

listed at 24 Fylde Street, are one in the same. The junction where

Moor Lane met Fylde Street, before the opening of Walker Street
and Adelphi Street, and is much changed from its current appearance.

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Until I find out otherwise, I will treat them as synonymous.

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"In 1821?? the "Fighting Cocks Inn" at the bottom of Friargate
was demolished, creating a continuous straight road to be 
called Adelphi Street."
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The "Fighting Cocks" was built on the spot that the Adelphi
Hotel now stands. Whether it's the same building isn't known.,
but see the article lower down, dated 1.4.1837
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MINE HOSTS:

Moor Lane address:
1812 - 14       William Wyke - butcher and Victualler.

1818              Simon Yates

1821              Robert Wilson

Fylde Street address:

1824 - 29      Richard Barton

1832      See article dated 3.3.1832, below.

1832              Rowland Cook
1836                      - sold to Messrs Thomlinson for £750

NOTES:   At one time there was a cockpit in this vicinity. The pub was demolished in the 1830's to clear the way for road and other developments.

In 1832, Polling took place in the 'Jolly Sailors' Inn' and the 'Fighting Cocks.'

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Preston Chronicle  3rd March 1832

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Preston Chronicle  7th April 1832

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Preston Chronicle  28th March 1835

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FIGHTING COCKS: It is agreed and ordered that our
steward be authorised to treat upon the best terms that he can with Mr. Boardman, for the purchase of the leasehold
interest in the Fighting Cocks premises.
Preston Chronicle   24th April 1835 
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The following article, taken from a Preston Chronicle of 1836,
should help you understand the proposed changes
in road lay-outs, etc:-

Preston Chronicle 27th February 1836

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"The Fighting Cocks, which almost directly faces the north end of Friargate, will be taken down, and a straight street (in continuation of the line of Friargate), to be called Adelphi Street, is carried through the hill, at the back of the present old buildings...…...

Preston Chronicle   27th February 1836

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Preston Chronicle  29th October 1836

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EXHUMATION OF TWO SKELETONS IN PRESTON

As some workmen were excavating in the line of an intended new street, through Sherliker's Hill, near the Fighting Cocks, in Preston, on Tuesday last, they met with human bones, and upon baring them, found two perfect skeletons, very little below the surface of the ground in a reclining position. The heads were the lowest down, the feet not being more than half a yard deep in the ground. The bones have been again buried adjoining the place from whence they were taken, and nothing is at present known to throw any light upon the circumstances under which they came into the spot where they were discovered.

Kendal Mercury   14th January 1837

I presume it was the hill, immediately behind the Adelphi Hotel that had Shutt's Flour Mill on it.

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Preston Chronicle  1st April 1837

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CLOCK FACE TAVERN, Pole Street

CLOCK FACE TAVERN   #

Pole Street / Bell Street

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MINE HOST:

1835          Thomas and Sarah Meadows

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This establishment was so described in connection with rioting,

which was colloquially referred to as "election sports"  [See article, below]

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Preston Chronicle  28th March 1835

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PLUMBERS' ARMS, Fylde Street

PLUMBERS' ARMS

3 Fylde Street

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Was formerly the 

"NEW FIGHTING COCKS"

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MINE HOSTS:

27th August 1881   Application made to change the name from the "New Fighting Cocks"

1881                     Thomas William Carlisle

1885                     Mary Kelly

1889 - 91              Robert W. Sherrin

1895                     Mary Sherrin

1901                     Hugh Atherton

1904 - 07             Thomas Brown

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Preston Chronicle  9th October 1869

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Preston Chronicle  16th December 1876

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Preston Chronicle  3rd December 1881

The name of the premises had been changed from the "FIGHTING COCKS"

only 3 or 4 months before this incident. How ironic!

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Preston Chronicle  16th February 1884

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CENSUS RETURNS

1881

Mrs. Dickinson                      57 years                   Publican                     b. Duxbury

1891
Robert Sherrin                       29 years                    Beerseller                   b. Kendal, Westmoreland
Mary Sherrin                         31                             Wife                           b. Castlerea, Ireland
Florence Sherrin                     3                              Daughter                    b. Preston
Constance E. Sherrin              4 months                  Daughter                             do
Eliza Galvin                            18                            General Domestic  b. Castlerea, Ireland
                                                                                            Servant.

1901

Hugh T Atherton              50 years                     Beerseller.                    b. Chorley, Lancs.

Ellen Atherton                  40                              Wife                             b. Preston

Elizabeth Atherton            4                                Daughter                              do

Francis C. Atherton           3                                Son                                      do

Hugh T. Atherton              2                                Son                                      do

John E. Atherton               7 months                   Son                                       do

     

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QUEBEC HOTEL, Moor Lane

QUEBEC HOTEL   #

23 Moor Lane

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MINE HOSTS:

1856                          George Clayton
1857 - 58                  Felix Abbott     -  went from here to the Talbot Inn, Church Yard.

1859                          John Fazackerley

1861 - 71                  William Rainford  - he was also a Valuer and Auctioneer.

1877

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Preston Chronicle 13th February 1858

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Preston Chronicle  July 1864

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23 Moor Lane was the "Quebec Hotel"

Preston Chronicle  7th December 1867

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TO BE SOLD, by Private Treaty,

A good double HOUSE and SHOP,

23 and 24, Moor Lane, known by the

name of "QUEBEC HOTEL," or would

be let to a suitable tenant, with all the 

back premises. For particulars apply to

Mr. JOHN FLETCHER, 15 Heatley Street,

or 32 Grafton Street.

Preston Chronicle 2nd June 1877

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CENSUS RETURNS

1861

William Rainford                    50 years                  Auctioneer, Appraiser            b. Bolton-le-Moor

                                                                            & County Court Bailiff

Ellen Rainford                        36                           Wife                                      b. Preston

Robert Rainford                     20                           Son                                               do

Betsy Rainford                       17                           Daughter                                       do

Jane Rainford                         15                           Daughter                                       do

James Rainford                      10                           Son                                               do

John Fazackerly                      6                            Step-son                                       do

1871

William Rainford                    57 years                  Auctioneer                             b. Bolton

Ellen Rainford                        52                           Wife                                      b. Preston

Emma Rainford                       8                            Daughter / Scholar                       do

John Fazackerley                   14                           Wife's son / Scholar                     do

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