Plus £3 from Thomas Allen for the hire of a committee room that he did not use and to influence his vote for the Liberals. He drove a carriage for the Conservatives. He owned property in Peter Street and the reference to a committee room probably relates to the Noah’s ark which was in Peter Street where the Licensee was Margaret Spicer in 1879. The Poll Book shows him owning 1 & 12 Peter Street.

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