Unlawfully keeping a billiard table

An article appeared in The Rochdale Times dated 5th January 1884 stating that Eli Shepherd and Edward Walton had been summoned to appear at Rochdale Petty Sessions charged with unlawfully keeping a billiard table. The table, in a room above The Bridge Inn at Norden had been used without Shepherd and Walton obtaining a license, the judge ordered the pair to pay the court costs.