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Kings Arms
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Picture source: Richard Richmond |
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The Kings Arms was situated on the corner
of Stanley
Street and Church Street. This pub closed in the 1990s and has been used
mainly as retail and food outlets since. |
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My grandmother (Eva Sullivan) and her daughter ((Helen Johnson) were
employed at the Kings Arms in Preston as chambermaids/housemaids. They
perished in this hotel in January 1946 due to carbon monoxide poisoning (a
faulty flue from a boiler in the bedroom was responsible for their deaths). |
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Lorraine Lewis (October 2012) |
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My dad, George Sapsford was licensee in 1929. I
have a copy of a summons giving The Kings Arms as his address dated 20th
January 1929, to appear before the Court of Summary Jurisdiction in Bury
charged with "did unlawfully assault and/or beat one Arthur Winstanley.......".
I guess he was found guilty as he was fined 3 pound 14 shillings (about
£3.70p). After serving in WW1 he played football professionally for various
northern English teams including Southport, Stoke City, Manchester United
and Preston North End. I presume on retiring from football he took on The
Kings Head.
He died in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1970. |
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Barry Sapsford (May 2013) |
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Date of photo: 1909 |
Picture source: Richard Richmond |
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Picture source: Richard Richmond |
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