CATTLE MARKET HOTEL, Brook Street

CATTLE MARKET HOTEL   #

53 Brook Street North

originally The Filberts. Dr

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Now renamed:  BROOK TAVERN

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MINE HOSTS:

1867               Henry Jackson

1867 - 82       John Chapman

1883 - 89       John Metcalfe

1889 - 95       Ellen Metcalfe

1901 - 07       Edward Gregory Hothersall

1910 - 17       Charles Robert Halton

1926 - 27       James Mercer

1927 - 32       John Sherry   - his cousin, also John, was at the Brookhouse Inn.

1932 - 40       William Lakeland

1944              Mabel Lakeland 

1948              William Rowland

1981 - 83       Norman Allen Smith

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An application was made on Wednesday 28th August, 1867,
for a licence for the Cattle Market Hotel, a place built by the
Corporation in connection with the new cattle market. They 
had expended a great deal of money on the cattle market and
slaughter houses, and they had also spent a large sum on the
hotel. He thought that if they considered a public house, or
victualling house was required anywhere, this was one. A great
number of people would come to the market, and the house,
being a large one, was capable of providing them with the 
requisite accommodation. It was 50 feet square, and was
42 feet in height. There were nine cellars underneath, 15 ft
high. On the ground floor there was a bar, a bar parlour, a
vault, a sitting room, a kitchen, and a pantry, and all these rooms 
were 13 feet high.

On the first floor there was a dining room 47 feet by 19 feet wide;
3 bathrooms, water closet, and other conveniences, all 15 feet high.

On the second floor there were 8 bedrooms 10 feet high.

The out-premises comprised Stabling for 32 horses, a shed for 
conveyances, and a stand for a number of cows. There was a 
brewhouse attached, and there was no public house within 500 yards.

All the facilities were independent of the Cattle Market itself.

Preston Chronicle  31st August 1867

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OPENING OF THE NEW CATTLE MARKET HOTEL

On Monday evening, a dinner was given at this

hotel, by Mr. John Chapman, the tenant, to

celebrate its opening, when about 100 gentlemen 

sat down to a repast, provided in first-rate style.

Preston Chronicle  26th October 1867

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Preston Chronicle  31st August 1867

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To Farmers & Pig Breeders
Mr. JOHN CHAPMAN, Cattle Market Hotel, Brook Street, Preston, 
has purchased from John Knowles Esq., Lytham, his celebrated BOAR
"GOLIATH."  For terms &c., apply at the above hotel.

GOLIATH is a splendid Boar, two years old, winner of many prizes,
and well worthy of attention to breeders.

Preston Chronicle  9th December 1871

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Council Business

.................As to the Cattle Market Hotel, Brook Street, a house

owned by the Corporation, and fairly let at £147 P.A.  The sum

is reasonable considering the newness of the house, and the

fluctuating character of its custom. But there seems to be

something anomolous in the position of the landlord of the hotel, 

bear in mind - being not only a Town Councillor, but a member of

the very committee which exercises control over his own and

five other public houses. We think that Corporate tenants 

should not be members of the Corporation, and we are decidedly

of the opinion that the occupants of houses should not be  members

of committees privileged to regulate them.

Preston Chronicle   4th August 1877

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PRESTON   RACE   HORSES

At the Ripon Races on Monday, Mr. John Chapman's

"Ben Lomond" ran first, and Mr. Matthew Brown's "Jim Walker"

ran second for the Red Bank Plate of 100 guineas.

Preston Chronicle  10th August 1878

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The Shire horse sale in 1936.
The hotel can be seen in the background.
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Allen Smith had just become the landlord in 1981, just after this event.

Allen Smith, with a young Barry Smith. These new photographs have been contributed by Barry.

Thanks very much!

A Yard of ale being drunk under the watchful eye of the landlord.

Dated between 1981 and 1983, would anyone else like to claim being in this photograph?

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A happy chappy, landlord's son, Barry, standing with his icy friend in what was the entrance to the Cattle Market itself.  Beyond the cars you can see the retail outlets associated with the cattle market, including Entwistle's gun shop.

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Not many years earlier (late 1960's) the market had it's very own Preston Borough police constables. The very last ones there carried the collar numbers P.C.111 (Watkinson), and P.C. 26  (Harry Pickering). Their office was just to the right of the entrance.

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Lancashire Evening Post 6th May 2011

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CENSUS RETURNS

1871

John Chapman              54 years                Hotel Keeper            b. Gamerside, Yorkshire

Mary Chapman             56                         Wife                         b. Preston

1881

John Chapman              63 years                Innkeeper / Farmer   b. Coverdale, Yorkshire

Mary Chapman             65                         Wife                         b. Preston

1891

Ellen Metcalf                54 years                Hotel Proprietor        b. Little Crosby

William Metcalf            28                         Son                           b. Nantwich

Thomas Metcalf           19                         Son                           b. Broughton

Jane Cooper                25                         Daughter                   b. Nantwich

Henry Cooper              28                         Son-in-law                b. Preston

1901

Edward G. Hothersall   52 years                Auctioneer                b. Broughton

Elizabeth Hothersall       47                        Wife                         b. Grimsargh

Ellen P. Hothersall         22                         Daughter                  b. Broughton

Ada E. Hothersall         21                         Daughter                            do

John Hothersall             19                         Son                                    do

Ann Hothersall              18                         Daughter                           do

Gertrude Hothersall       16                         Daughter                           do

Herbert E. Hothersall     7                          Son                                   do

Hilda Hothersall             8                          Daughter                           do

Agnes Hothersall           5                           Daughter                           do

1911
Charles Robert Halton   48 years               Publican                    b. Preston
Ellen Halton                   48                        Wife                                  do
Beulah Halton                16                    Daughter / Milliner                 do
Gladys Helen Halton      14                        Daughter                           do
Zorah Vesper Halton      7                         Daughter                           do

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