A police journal of the 1840's 5
Beastly drunk
The daily visits to public houses and beer shops as recorded in the Police Journal kept by a constable in the 1840's were not always to 'orderly' establishments, as illustrated by the entry shown here.
County Archives
M/SOC/7/42
This extract, recorded in July 1844, reads as follows:
"I called by the Green Dragon Beer Shop kept by John
Davis about half past 8 o'clock PM and found it a very drunken
and fighting Disorderly House. John Davis the land Lord was Beastly
drunk and disorderly."
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