> The Rag & Louse was a large establishment—in 1851, 23 staying there incl a beggar, & local newspapers referred to it as both a beerhouse & a 'tramp lodging-house'. Regular spot in the crime sections until lost its license in 1869 >
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e.g. in 1848 six young men sentenced to 2 months hard labour for rolling a lighted tar barrel down the horse steps of Aswell Hole at 10pm (the Rag & Louse was on the right of the pic).pic.twitter.com/zKkzTRfLvx
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> A very disturbing incident took place in Nov 1865, when a brawl between Martin Monaghan & John Gibbons started at the Rag & Louse and ended with Gibbon having his lower lip bitten off. Oddly, Monaghan was only fined 30s for this permanent disfigurement…
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> Another one of Victorian Louth's most notorious pubs was the Marrowbone & Cleaver, located somewhere on Queen Street. Run by Samuel Walker, it was raided by the police in 1839 due to parental complaints that 'their children had been ruined by resorting to Walker's house'…pic.twitter.com/XtiEtzqnev
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> The primary complaint seems to have been that Walker was running it both as a beerhouse & a brothel… When the police raided it, they found 16 women dancing to the 'music of 2 fiddles' with a number of local 'bad characters' >
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> The women and girls got sent to prison for a month, after receiving 'fatherly lectures' from the local magistrate, whilst Walker simply got a £5 fine that he subsequently successfully avoided paying…
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> The Marrowbone & Cleaver, Queen Street, reopened as a lodging-house by 1850, when it was the scene of a 3 hour-long mass drunken brawl involving kettles and knives, followed by a police siege of the house, all of which was blamed partly on rum and a fiddler...
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Another notorious Louth pub was the Dog & Duck, opposite the chancel of the church on Upgate. In Jan 1846, Sergeant Chapman and PC Ryall forced entry after they saw lights on after closing, against the objections of the landlord, Joseph Johnson… (pic=Wm Brown, 1856) >pic.twitter.com/7hHfmVBdCJ
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> Johnson grabbed PC Ryall around the neck to prevent him going upstairs, calling out "here's the police!" Forcing their way up, the police encountered c.20 men & prostitutes dancing, and the defendant's wife pulling others into a bedroom which she locked behind her. Fined £2.
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
She should have just bitten off someone's lower lip instead. Cheaper with the fine.
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