The extracts below come from the Preston Herald, Wednesday January 10th 1883.
It's interesting that the disengaged, experienced Barmaid specifies that she is Protestant. Preston has a deep Catholic heritage and I am curious as to whether she was seeking employment from a fellow Protestant or whether she had experienced discrimination in the past.
The King's Head on Friargate was clearly the place to be entertained by comic singing waiters - if they were able to hire any.
At least one of the job above sounds too good to be true - a phenomenon still seen today in adverts which offer amazingly good wages for apparently easy work.
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