Slander, adultery, beer and bankruptcy - the amazing life story of a Darlington wine merchant
THE 1881 census found William Askew Jackson living in 39, Victoria Road, Darlington, on the north side of the street looking over to where the church hall would be built in 1897. No 39 is now a web designer’s office, but Mr Jackson lived there with his wife, Elizabeth, and children, plus a domestic servant. He had been the landlord of the Queen’s Head in Tubwell Row and The Three Bluebells Hotel in Blackwellgate, but he had become a wine and spirit merchant, with a shop on High Row. He was also the area’s travelling salesman for Ind, Coope, the Burton-on-Trent brewer.
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk