KENDAL CASTLE
2 Ladyman Street
1 Ladyman Street (1913)
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MINE HOSTS:
1853 Ann Taylor
1856 - 58 Thomas Bonney Owned by William Smith in 1858. In 1856 a spirits license was refused.
1859 William Smith
1860 - 62 Stephen Gollin (Golin) (Golden)
1863 - 64 Edward Halliwell
1865 - 66 Euclid Hindle
1871 - 79 William Holliday and Mary Holliday
1879 - 80 Mary Holliday - 1880 Executors of Mary Holliday to......
1880 - 83 Sarah Jane Alberta Holliday
1883 - 87 William Holliday Jnr.
1887 - 88 Alfred Hart
1888 - 91 William Charles Albert Wine License granted August 1888. Son, Ernest Thomas d.6.3.89 age 4 mths.
1891 - 95 William Dawson
1895 - 1904 Edward Miller
1904 Richard Mayor
1904 Mrs. Richard Mayor
1907 Peter Chirnside
1913 - Thomas Henry Jones
1917 - 21 David Howard
1926 - 27 Thomas H. Jones
1932 John Garvey
1936 - 44 William Jackson
1948 William Hargreaves
1955 - 62 William Salter and Mary Elsie Salter
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Both the above articles were in the
Preston Guardian 3rd November 1860
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Preston Guardian 26th October 1861
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Preston Guardian 30th October 1861
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Preston Herald – 26th September 1863
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Preston Herald – 2nd July 1864
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Preston Chronicle - 13th August 1864
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Preston Chronicle - 22nd October 1864
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Licence refused.
Preston Chronicle 2nd September 1865
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Preston Herald - 28th October 1865
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Preston Guardian 31st March 1866
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Preston Herald – 1st September 1866
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Preston
Herald – 4th August 1888
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Lancashire Evening Post – 7th July 1899
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Lancashire Evening Post – 13th September 1902
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Lancashire Evening Post – 31st December 1902
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Lancashire Evening Post – 25th March 1904
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Lancashire Evening Post – 6th September 1913
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Lancashire Evening Post – 23rd December 1913
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Lancashire Evening Post – 23rd January 1914
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Lancashire Evening Post – 11th April 1914
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Lancashire Evening Post – 22nd July 1914
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Lancashire Evening Post – 18th May 1915
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Lancashire Evening Post – 4th January 1918
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Lancashire Evening Post – 28th August 1919
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Lancashire Evening Post – 6th December 1919
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Lancashire Evening Post – 7th September 1921
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Lancashire Evening Post – 14th February 1922
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Lancashire Evening Post – 3rd March 1922
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Lancashire Evening Post – 24th May 1922
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Lancashire Evening Post – 7th July 1939
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Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) – 28th May 1962
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Liverpool Echo – 28th May 1962
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Halifax Evening Courier - 21th July 1962
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Nottingham Evening Post – 30th July 1962
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Bloodstained Hammer Cracked The Case
26..5..1962
When
a coach party set out from Preston, Lancashire, for Thirsk races on
Saturday, MAY 26th, 1962, the racegoers included William Salter,
licensee of Preston's Kendal Castle Hotel, who left his 57-year-old wife
Elsie to run the pub in his absence.
On
Saturdays the bar closed at 3 p.m. and reopened at eight. Mrs. Pauline
Green worked in the bar, and at 6 p.m. she decided to go in early to
help Mrs. Salter, who had been ill. Surprised to receive no response to
her knocks on the front and back doors which were locked, she went home
and returned with her husband.
The
pub was still locked and silent, but Mrs. Green remembered a fire-door
that was never secured. Using this entrance, the couple went to the
Salters' flat at the rear of the premises where they found Mrs. Salter
lying dead on the floor of her kitchen, her face battered beyond
recognition.
Police
found that the till in the bar had been forced open and emptied. As
there was no sign of a break-in, it appeared that the killer had known
of the unlocked fire-door or had hidden in the pub at closing-time. Mr.
Salter gave detectives a list of the pub's regulars, and officers began
visiting them.
All
were shocked by the news of the murder, with the exception of
29-year-old Bernard McCrorey who seemed indifferent. The investigators
had already learned that he was an unemployed labourer with a history of
mental illness, and he was taken to police headquarters for further
questioning. This got nowhere until news came that a bloodstained hammer
had been found at his home. That loosened his tongue, and he told the
detectives everything.
He
said he had hidden in the pub's toilets at closing-time, and had then
gone upstairs to the Salters' living quarters to see what he could
steal. "I hid behind the kitchen door," he continued. "She came in and
saw me and I hit her with the hammer."
How many times? He couldn't remember, but an autopsy found that Mrs. Salter had received eight blows to the head.
The
facts were not in dispute when McCrorey appeared at Manchester Crown
Court two months later, pleading not guilty to murder. What was at issue
was his mental condition. Did he know what he was doing?
He
admitted rifling the till and also taking 100 cigarettes, and the
prosecution claimed that as the killing was committed in the furtherance
of theft, it was a capital offence. Furthermore, the Crown alleged that
the killing was premeditated. Mrs. Salter had earlier refused to lend
McCrorey £5, and he had told another customer, "I am a regular customer,
and the landlady will be sorry."
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CENSUS RETURNS
1861
Stephen Gollin 41 years Butcher b. Derby
Sarah Gollin 51 Butcher's Wife do
Ann Gollin 19 Daughter / Cotton Winder do
Mary Gollin 14 Daughter / Servant b. Birmingham
Stephen Hodson 5 months Grand-son b. Preston
Ann Taylor 31 Dressmaker b. Austwick, Cumberland
William Taylor 9 Scholar b. Blackpool
Sarah Taylor 8\ Scholar b. Preston
Levi Taylor 4 Scholar do
1871
William Halliday 68 years Lic. Vict. b. Liverpool
Mary Halliday 63 Wife b. Hull
William Halliday 34 Son b. Preston
Sarah Jane Halliday 28 Daughter do
Catherine Halliday 30 Daughter-in-law b. Bristol
Albert V. Halliday 8 months Grandson b. Preston
1881
Sarah Jane A. Holliday 38 years Beerseller b. Preston
William Holliday 44 Brother do
Maria Holliday 40 Brother's wife do
Albert V. Holliday * 10 Son do
Helen A. Holliday * 8 Daughter do
William E. Holliday * 5 Son do
* Brother's children, not Sarah's
1891
William Dawson 40 years Publican b. Oldham
Agnes Dawson 36 Wife b. Preston
Austyn Dawson 13 Son do
1901
Edward Miller 37 years Beerseller b. Preston
Matilda Miller 37 Wife b. Deal, Kent
Harry Miller 12 Son b. Preston
John Miller 11 Son do
Robert Miller 8 Son do
Edward Miller 6 Son do
William Miller 3 Son do
Fred S. Miller 11 months Son do
1911
1921
David Howard 68 years Licensed Victualler b. Preston
Esther Howard 35 daughter Shop Assistant do
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