DUBLIN TAVERN – CHURCH GATE

7th of April 1832, a newspaper report –

The Dublin Tavern is mentioned in other cases during this period.  In one in particular in Aug 1832 an old Irish women Biddy Dakin was apt to cause disturbances at the Dublin Tavern, eventually landlord Peter Golding charged Biddy with assault and other abuse Goulding claimed Biddy called his wife bad names, shouting at customers that collected around her. When the Mayor asked what she had to say to the charge Biddy (with a low curtsy) ‘please your highness I will never interrupt again. The Mayor informed Biddy she must find sureties, This Biddy consented to again with a curtsy, on leaving the court she shouted ‘May the devil fly away with her and the infernal Dublin Hotel.

October 1832 Mary Matthews an Irish woman (who attended fairs) was sentenced to 6 months prison in the house of correction for stealing a bonnet, a pair of shoes ans an apron from Peter Goulding landlord.

in August 1833, when William Barratt was sentenced to death for stealing a watch, 38 sovereigns and four 5 pound notes from John Gilbert when the pair of them had been drinking in the Dublin Tavern. This long case was reported in the Leicester Chronicle on the 3rd of August 1833.

The exact location of the Dublin Tavern in Church Gate is unknown.  , although it possibly changed names. 

The Dublin Tavern is still there 1838 when in Oct that year Mrs Peter Golding of the Dublin Tavern had a couple of small white pigs stolen or had strayed from a sty in nearby Bond St. –Chris Pyrah