In 1855, the LJ of described the sign in Redcross Street as a ‘Presentation of two men with masculine features with large open mouths, in the act of laughing and pointing at each other, third loggerhead would be the person looking at the sign.’
In 1832, John Harrison was victualler, he was fined £20 (a huge sum) for receiving stolen worsted from a man named Upton who told the court he always sold Harrison goods.
In November 1833 Samuel Wye, Thomas Butterworth and a man known as ‘Scarecrow’ – described in court as ‘three rogues’ – were all charged with stealing two brass candlesticks and a pot lid from the Loggerheads.
In the 1840s the beerhouse was run by John Kellett and his wife.
In January 1872, whilst Wm Carter was victualler, Ruth Wilson, thirty-six, died in a bedroom after taking laudanum. She awoke charwomen, Eliza Wilson, who was sharing the same bed when Ruth fell out of it. An empty bottle of laudanum was found by the bed but the jury found insufficient evidence that she committed suicide as Ruth was want to take laudanum to help her sleep.
Later that month, landlord Carter transferred the licence to John Spence.
John Spence was to put the pub and brewhouse up for sale in 1873, together with five three story tenements at the rear of the pub.
James Allsop, who also ran a carting business from here, attempted to give up the licence for a new pub on Western Rd in 1898, arguing it was no longer being relevant to the area, but was refused. Again in 1899, he tried for one on Jarrom Street but was turned down once more, being third time unlucky in 1900 as Allsop tried to surrender the licence, together with the Shah of Persia, for the one on Jarrom Street.
The Loggerheads did close shortly after cica 1905-1906.
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