Agnes Houghton
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Agnes Houghton, Volunteers Inn, 43 Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire.
Agnes Houghton in 1921.
In 1947 Margaret Agnes Houghton sentenced to 6 months for defrauding the Excise.
In 1939, she had bought the Falcon a home-brew pub in Adelphi Street.
In August 1942, the house was not paying very well and a secret brewing plant was set up in the domestic quarters.
In 1946 the inn was sold to GW Shawcross, who discovered the secret plant and reported it.
It was estimated that the equivalent of 350, Ray Farleigh says 3,500, barrels had been brewed secretly.
Her son Bernard joined the Army in 1939, but was invalided out with a weak heart in 1941 and assisted his mother in the business. He received 12 months.