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Tuesday 13 March 2012

DRUM AND MONKEY, Southgate

DRUM AND MONKEY
1 Southgate.
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See the
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.............there was also a charge against
RALPH DEWHURST, landlord of the DRUM AND MONKEY, 
or SOUTHGATE TAVERN, who was summoned for allowing
 persons to play dominoes for a gallon of beer.

When told by the policeman that he was to be reported,
Dewhurst replied "WHAT ELSE MUST THEY PLAY FOR?"
Preston Chronicle  29th January 1876
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