GEORGE HOTEL, Market Street

GEORGE HOTEL   #

1 Market Street

The front entrance that exists today, didn't when it was a hotel. The entrances were
on either side, in Friargate and Market Street - see below.

The Friargate entrance. Although it is now a window,
the doorway entrance can still be seen.

Similarly in Market Street, the entrance is still obvious.
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You can superimpose the sketch below, onto this plan of the
intended street improvements in the 1890's
See the original "George Inn" for more details of the George Inn marked on this plan.

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MINE HOSTS:

1898                   Miss A. Winterbottom

1900 - 01           John James Lucas

1901 - 04           Nancy Duxbury

1905                  Miss Mary Duxbury

1907                   Robert Kidd

1909 - 22           William Bee

1926         A BRANCH OF MARTIN'S BANK.

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PRESTON. TO BE LET, the newly-erected Fully-licensed house known as the "GEORGE HOTEL", situate at the junction of Friargate and Market Street, fronting the Market Square, Preston. The house contains spacious public rooms and vaults, and is adapted for a first-class trade; STABLING for 26 horses. Tenders may be addressed to Mr. Fletcher, 46 Fishergate, Preston.

Lancashire Evening Post  20th April 1896

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Preston Herald  20th November 1909

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Preston Herald   28th November 1914

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CENSUS RETURN

1901

Nancy Duxbury                44 years             Hotel Manager             b. Darwen

Henry Duxbury                 20                      Nephew                       b. Delamere, Cheshire

Harold Sartin                    19                      Servant / Billiard Marker  b. Preston

1911

William Bee                      51 years            Hotel Keeper                   b. Preston

Isabella Bee                      50                          Wife                                      do

Ethel Bee                          23                       Daughter                                  do

Harold Bee                       14                            Son                            b. Birkdale

Constance Bee                   9                        Daughter                                  do

Edith Welch                     19                    Hotel Housemaid        b. Haverigg, Cumberland

Annie Kelly                     22                        Hotel Cook              b. King's County, Ireland

                                                                                                                      (Offaly)

Albert Lawson                 24                   Hotel Cellarman                  b. Preston

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ANCHOR TAVERN, London Road

ANCHOR TAVERN   #

London Road

(As listed in Whittle's Directory 1838 and 1841)

MINE HOST:

1838 - 41    John Crouthwaite

May be synonymous with the 'Blue Anchor' Fishwick.

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SOAPERY TAVERN, Gradwell Street

SOAPERY TAVERN   #

15 Gradwell Street

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Friar's Field Mill, through the railway arches from Gradwell Street
became a Soap Works - hence the name of the beerhouse.

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MINE HOSTS:

1849 - 55             Joseph Grice  d. January 1855 [Preston Chronicle 3rd February 1855]

1855 -                  Mrs. Grice

1857 - 61             James Billington   -  married the widow of Joseph Grice.

1863 - 70             William Holderness - 16.10.1870, fined 20s + costs for breaching the Sunday Act.

1870 - 71             Richard Carr

1871 / 72  The beerhouse was closed due to demolition to widen the railway.

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TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION

On the 20th November 1849

At the MITRE INN, Fishergate.

LOT 1.    ALL that BEERSHOP and

DWELLING-HOUSE, being

15 Gradwell Street, Preston,

occupied by Joseph Grice.

Preston Chronicle 17th November 1849

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Preston Chronicle  3rd February 1855

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MIDNIGHT BURIAL OF A SUICIDE

On Sunday evening last, a young man name

Joseph Grice, a power-loom weaver aged 19,

destroyed his life in a fit of passion. The mis-

guided young man lived with his mother and 

step-father, who keeps a beerhouse in Gradwell

Street, Marsh Lane.

Following a quarrel with his mother, he took

himself to the canal near Maudland Bridge, and 

threw himself in.

The jury returned a verdict "That Joseph Grice

did wilfully, feloniously and intentionally, kill and

destroy himself, by drowning himself in the waters

of the Preston and Lancaster Canal."

On the same night, Mr. Gibbons, Superintendent

of Police, accompanied by two church wardens and

a few policemen, seized the body under a Coroner's

Warrant. The body was interred in the cemetery 

between 11 and 12 o'clock, without the rite of

Christian burial.

The law in such cases says the burial must be 

between 9pm and 12 midnight.

Preston Chronicle  14th March 1857

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VIOLENT ASSAULT

A foundry labourer, Robert Morn, was charged with

violently assaulting William Stringfellow.

On a Saturday night, about two months ago,

Stringfellow and two of his friends were in the

Soapery Tavern, Gradwell Street. Whilst there,

Morn, along with 13 other men, came into the

house and asked for a gallon of ale; but, as they

had no money, the landlady, Mrs. Billington, 

refused to supply them with it, and they went

out of the house, grumbling.

Strinfellow heard them making a noise, went

to the door and remonstrated with them, upon

which he and one of his friends were set upon by 

two gangs of men. Stringfellow was knocked

down, and was brutally kicked on the head and

face, and had his waistcoat torn off him, had his

lip cut and his cap torn. Some of the party were

apprehended at the time, but Morn escaped, 

and hadn't been seen since, till last Saturday, 

when he was apprehended.

Morn was found guilty, fined £3 with costs,

in default of payment to be imprisoned for

two months.

Preston Chronicle  10th September 1859

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Preston Chronicle  9th February 1861

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Preston Chronicle  5th November 1870

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CENSUS RETURNS

1851

Joseph Grice                      42 years                   Beerseller                 b. Preston

Jane Grice                          40                            Wife                                 do

Catherine Grice                  17                Daughter / Power Loom Weaver   do

Hannah Grice                     14                         Daughter                              do

Joseph Grice                      12                         Son / Scholar                       do

Thomas Grice                     8                          Son / Scholar                       do

John Griffin ??                    46 widower                ?                                    do

1861

James Billington                 34 years                    Beerseller                 b. Lea

Jane Billington                   50                              Wife                        b. Preston

1871

Richard Carr                     33 years                    Beerhouse Keepr      b. Bentham, Yorks.

Isabella Carr                     37                             Wife                          b. Walton

*http://pubsinpreston.blogspot.com/2012/03/soapery-tavern-gradwell-street.html

RED LYON, Fryergate

RED LYON   #

Fryergate

Discovered in the Court Leet Records of 1685:

14th  These psons following for Watering their horses at the well in Fryergate, by the Red Lyon, to pay 1 pound 3s 4d a piece:

                       John Cowborne,   John Cottam

Thanks to Jeremy Rowlands of Plau, the Continental Hotel and Moorbrook Inn for this information.