Yorkshire Almanac Publican George Harwood, late of Beverley, announces his return to Hull and the White Horse, now the Black Horse

2 October 1815: Publican George Harwood, late of Beverley, announces his return to Hull and the White Horse, now the Black Horse

George Harwood. 1815/10/02. George Harwood, Late of Beverley. Hull Packet. Hull. Get it:

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GEORGE HARWOOD
(Late of BEVERLEY,)
BEGS leave to inform the Gentry, Travellers, and the Public in general, that he has RE-TAKEN his former Residence, the WHITE HORSE Inn, in Carr-lane, Hull, and changed it to the BLACK HORSE. The House has recently been enlarged, furnished and fitted up in a respectable manner; the Stables and Coach-houses are modern and commodious, fit for the reception of Gentlemen’s Hunters, and Horses of every description. And being determined to keep a well-stored LARDER, with the best WINES and SPIRITS, and to conduct every department with attention to the comforts of his Friends, he humbly solicits their patronage and support.
George Harwood returns his grateful Thanks for the distinguished Favours conferred on him since he commenced Wholesale Dealer in LONDON PORTER, which Branch he intends to continue; and, in addition, to sell all kinds of Foreign and British SPIRITS, by wholesale as well as retail. Also, bottled ALE, CIDER, PERRY, and GINGER BEER; with a constant supply of that fine wholesome Beverage MEUX, REID, and Co.’s Entire Butt PORTER, for Draught as well as in Bottle; and as he runs off from two to three Butts per week, he flatters himself can. offer Draught Porter in as great perfection as any Publican in London, with the benefit of London-sealed Porter FULL measure.
☞ HORSES taken-in at LIVERY.
HULL, 2d October, 1815. (One concern.)

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Via Leeds Riot Map:

A great number of the tickets were overstamped “Men only”, and the door stewards were commanded to not allow any woman not holding one thus stamped; this was because the organisers knew that the suffragettes could disguise themselves to make them appear fully respectable members of a Liberal audience. Meanwhile, in Victoria Square, a large meeting of unemployed took place by the Leeds Permanent Committee on Unemployment, chaired by a man, Mr. Kitson. As the PM Asquith approached the Coliseum, some 600 or so men moved up the hill to where Ms Baines was declaring that unemployment was “more a woman’s question than a man’s, for it was the wife that had to meet the landlord’s demand for rent”. Precisely what happened next, and what was intended, remains unclear. The press, in the form of the Evening News and the Leeds Mercury, agreed that Ms Baines was heard to say “Break down the barricades and compel a hearing”, but it is not clear if this was intended as an explicit incitement to the men to interpret her literally. Whatsoever, there was a rush of people which was subsequently interpreted as a riot, although the only recorded damage was a broken pane of glass. It seems one stone was thrown which a policeman claimed had hit him, but no injury was recorded, to him or anyone else. In Leeds, Kitson and five suffragettes were arrested. Trial proceedings dragged on into the next year and the excitement subsided, but Jennie Baines is recorded the honour of being the first suffragette to be imprisoned after conviction.

Who was Vera Lambert? Who was Mr Kitson? Presumably no relative of Lord Airedale. I hope I’ve tagged the right Gladstone.

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