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Jennypeg
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Tag Hill
replied on: 6/21/2005 2:29:32 PM

Hi,
I've found a little bit more about The Four Bums Beer-house.
Jenny

Ilkeston Pioneer
30th June 1859
Heanor
Beer-house Information. – Mrs Osborne, of Tagg Hill, landlady of the Four Bums Beer-house, was charged by Sergeant Brady with keeping her house open for the sale of beer at a quarter past 11 o’clock p.m. on the 18th instant. The constable stated that he visited the house at the time just named, and there found a number of persons, and some of them were playing at dominoes, and her son was in the cellar drawing drink: he asked Osborne if he knew what time it was, when he replied that it was not 11 o’clock, at the same time pulling out his watch; he then said it was 11 ¼. Mrs Osborne said that the house did not belong to her but to her son, and that there was nothing wrong on the night in question, and called David Turton, who, on appearing said, Gentlemen I am no speaker (laughter), and then commenced to relate what the sign of the Four Bums meant, he said it meant a policeman, a parish constable, and two bum-bailiffs. The Bench ordered Mrs Osborne to pay 11s. 6d. and to be more cautious in future, and not to lend her name to appear on sign-boards.

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