GEORGE HOTEL #
1 Market Street
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| 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. |
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| The Friargate entrance. Although it is now a window, the doorway entrance can still be seen. |
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| 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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