WHEATSHEAF, Gin Bow Entry

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2  (later 1)  Gin Bow Entry

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Let me give you a few bearings:
Gin Bow Entry stood where Harris Street now stands. The road on the right
of the plan is Lancaster Road. Everything below Gin Bow Entry is now
covered by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery.
Yes, that's right! We had to sacrifice SEVEN or EIGHT pubs, just to make way
for the Museum.
** 2014:  I NOW THINK IT COULD BE AS MANY AS TEN!!!
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MINE HOSTS:

1804 -                    Thomas Rigby. -  wife died 6.12.1804
?  -  1811               Richard Anderton    d. 24.6.1811.  See son's death, below.
                                                        Mrs. Anderson d. 10.9.1811
1812                      John Haythornwaite    d.30.3.1812
1812 - 15               Mrs. Mary Haythornthwaite   m. John Simpson 4.10.1815
1815 - 21               John Simpson    d. 16.7.1821

1821 - 27               Mary Simpson
1829 - 38               John Baron - Shown as Globe Tavern in 1829.    See next entry.
1839                      William Helme

1841 - 48               John Baron  d May 1848 aged 73 years.*see article about "The Globe" Gin Bow Entry.

1850 - 51               Thomas Howarth

1853 - 54               Robert Carter

1857 - 60               Simon Yates  - died 25.1.1860, aged 38 years.

1860 - 61               Mrs. Jane Yates  -  

1861                      Elizabeth Warren

1862                      William Wallin

1865                      Henry Aspden

1865                      Richard Brown

1869 - 71              John Parsons

1873 - 77              William Thompson
1879                     Robert (Richard) Higham        d. 1879   -  His first wife died in 1878

1879 - 81              Mary Higham     Believed to be the second Mrs. Higham.

1881                     Squire Robert Gray

Demolished w/c 20.6.1881 - see article below.

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DEATH:  On Sunday last, Mr. Richard Anderton,
of the Wheatsheaf, Preston, aged 35 years.
Lancaster Gazette  29th June 1811 
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DEATH:  On Monday last, Mr. John Haythornwaite
of the Wheat-Sheaf public-house, Preston.
Lancaster Gazette  4th April 1812 
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MARRIAGE: On Wednesday, last, Mr. John
Simpson, tin-plate worker, to Mrs. Mary
Haythornthwaite, of the Wheatsheaf public-house,
both of Preston.
Lancaster Gazette  7th October 1815 
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DEATH:  On Monday last, aged 39 years,
Mr. John Simpson, of Preston, Innkeeper.
Lancaster Gazette  21st July 1821 
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DEATH -  On Thursday 1st November 1821, 
aged 17 years, Robert Anderton, son of the
late Mr. Anderton, of the WHEATSHEAF in
this town.
So presumably he was here prior to 1816?
Preston Chronicle  10th November 1821
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Lancaster Gazette  7th April 1827
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GAMING ON SUNDAY
John Baron, of the 'Globe Tavern', Gin Bow
Entry, was fined 10s. and costs, for suffering
bagatelle and dominoes to be played in his
house on Sunday night last.

Preston Chronicle 10th December 1831

I suspect that this could be an example of

using a fictitious name for his house to 

avoid bad publicity.

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THEFT
A man named Smith, who stated himself to be a 
saddler, last from Liverpool, was fully committed
 for trial, on a charge of having stolen a horse
curry comb from the premises of Mr. Baron, 
Globe Tavern, on or about Wednesday last, and 
a smoothing iron from Elizabeth Barton, a keeper
of a retail beerhouse.

Preston Chronicle 17th December 1831

Just one week after the above incident (10th December)

we again see the name 'Globe Tavern."

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Preston Chronicle  28th July 1838
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On Monday, John Baron, Gin Bow Entry, 
was fined 40 s. for having, early on the
morning of the 7th instant, persons of
riotous and disorderly conduct in his house.

Preston Chronicle 14th November 1835

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Yesterday, at the Town Hall, John Baron,

innkeeper, Gin Bow Entry, was fined 5s

and costs, for permitting drunkeness, on

Sunday evening last.

Preston Chronicle 3rd November 1838

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In an action brought before the courts by Thomas Ellis, a bailiff, against John Hyde, a machine maker. Mr. F. Armstrong appeared as advocate for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ascroft for the defendant. 
The action was for an alleged assault, committed by the defendant upon the plaintiff, at a public-house, kept by a person named Baron, in Ginbow Entry, in November last.
The assault turned out to be a sort of drunken quarrel, and the only feature in the case worth mentioning was, that the principal witness, in giving his evidence, said "that there was six days in a week, and he (the witness) was supping mussel broth when the assault took place.
He was often at Baron's public-house, which was much frequented, and principally supported by bailiffs."
A number of other witnesses, all of them about as intelligent as the above, were examined, and after a long hearing, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff  with one shilling damages. As our readers may be aware, the damages in the borough court, if under forty shillings, only carry costs to the same amount as the damages.
Preston Chronicle   16th March 1839
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William Helme, of the Wheatsheaf public-house, in Gin-bow Entry, was first called upon to answer two charges of having sold on the 10th and 11th February last, small quantities of wine, not being duly licensed. The evidence for the case having been gone through, Mr. J. Armstrong addressed the Bench for the defendant. The magistrates decided to convict in one case in the penalty of £12.10s and costs; the other information to be withdrawn. The Bench intimated that they would recommend a further mitigation of the penalty.
Preston Chronicle   25th May 1839
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CAUTION TO PUBLICANS
On Wednesday at the Town Hall, a publican
named John Baron, of the Wheatsheaf Inn,
Gin Bow Entry, was charged with refusing to
admit the constables into his house when
required to do so. It appeared in evidence
that the police suspected that some persons 
were in Baron's house whom they wished to
apprehend, when on demanding entrance, on
Saturday night, they were refused. The 
defendant, who had no satisfactory defence 
to offer, was fined 20s and costs.

Preston Chronicle 30th November 1839

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CHARGE OF STEALING FROM THE PERSON
Yesterday, at the Town Hall, two young men named
Fallowfield Wilson and James Dewhurst, were 
charged with stealing 27 shillings from the person
of William Burns, a butcher. It was stated in
evidence that the prosecutor and prisoners were
 drinking together in the Wheatsheaf Inn, Gin
Bow Entry, when the prosecutor was thrown
down, and robbed, by the two prisoners.
The prisoners admitted the offence and were
committed for trial.

Preston Chronicle 13th June 1840

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FIRE
Yesterday morning, about half-past six, a fire
was discovered to have broken out in the
Wheatsheaf stables, Gin Bow Entry.
Mr. Bradley was promptly on the spot, and
succeeded in getting it under control before
much damage was done.

Two fine horses which were in at the time,
 were, however, much scorched. The fire was due
to the carelessness of the ostler.

Preston Chronicle 17th December 1842

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The Fire in Gin Bow Entry

Two of the horses injured at the fire, which

occurred on the morning of yesterday week,

at the Wheatsheaf stables, in Gin Bow Entry,

died on Saturday last, and one yesterday.

The premises were uninsured, but beyond the

loss of the horses, the damage was but trifling.

The ostler, through whose carelessness the

fire originated, absconded immediately after

the occurrence.

Preston Chronicle 24th December 1842

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Robert BARON  v  Matthew BROWN

Preston Chronicle 29th July 1848

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 Preston Chronicle  28th December 1850

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Preston Chronicle  12th April 1856

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The Vaults from which this wholesale trade was conducted would be adjacent
to the Wheatsheaf.

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 Preston Chronicle  10th January 1863
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Preston Herald  3rd October 1863
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 Preston Herald  10th December 1864
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Preston Herald  28th January 1865
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 Preston Chronicle  8th December 1866
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SUNDAY DRINKING
James Parsons of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Gin Bow
Entry, was charged with selling drink during 
prohibited hours on the 14th November.

The police visited the house, in which they found
some men; also five women upstairs in one of the
rooms. They also found some fresh-drawn ale in
the bar. Fined 40s and costs.

Preston Chronicle 4th December 1869

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Preston Chronicle 24th September 1870

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 Preston Chronicle  13th May 1871
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Preston Chronicle  15th July 1871
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Preston Chronicle  13th January 1872
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Not specifically relating to the Wheatsheaf, but of interest anyway. 

Preston Herald  3rd October 1874
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...................the next Corporation inn meriting
notice, is the Shoulder of Mutton, Lancaster
Road. This public-house brings in a rent of
only £29, a good deal too little, if the two
adjoining Corporate houses - the Ram's Head 
and the Wheatsheaf in Gin Bow Entry, be as 
we are told they are fairly rented at £50 and
£40 respectively.

Preston Chronicle 4th August 1877

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 Manchester Times  12th October 1878
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Bristol Mercury  19th October 1878
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Preston Chronicle  16th August 1879

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Preston Chronicle 11th June 1881

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CENSUS RETURNS

1841

John Baron                     65 years                         Publican

Robert Baron                 30                                  Son  /  Ostler

Robert Baron                  4                                   Grandson

Ann Baron                     25                                   Daughter-in-law

1851

Thomas Howarth           35 years                         Innkeeper                           b. Leyland

Elizabeth Howarth          34                                  Wife                                  b.    ?

Catherine Howarth          1                                   Daughter                            b. Preston

1861

Jane Yates                    38 years                         Publican                          b. Douglas, I.O.M.

Joseph Yates                 15                                   Son                                   b. Preston

Susannah Yates             14                                  Daughter                                      do

Simon Yates                   8                                   Son                                             do

William Yates                 4                                   Son                                              do

John Yates                     1                                   Son                                              do

1871

John Parsons                65 years                          Publican                             b. Exeter

Margaret Parsons         35                                   Wife                                  b. Ireland

William Henry Parsons  18                                   Son                                   b. Preston

Edmund Parsons           15                                   Son                                             do

Andrew Parsons           13                                    Son                                            do

1881

Squire Robert Gray      29 years                          Lic. Vict.                           b. Burnley

Elizabeth Mary Gray     28                                  Wife                                  b. Preston

Elizabeth Mary Grace Gray  5                             Daughter                                   do

Joseph Frederick Garner Gray   3                       Son                                           do

Thomas Garner Gray                 2                        Son                                           do

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