LOTS of new information has emerged since we featured the rare brass token from the Ulverston House of Letters pub on the Memories Page.

Readers of the Evening Mail and its website were agreed on the pub being at the Gill, Ulverston.

At some point in the late 19th century James Hill was the landlord and issued a coin-like twopence. An example of it sold for £48 on Ebay.

James Hill had been born in Ireland and the 1881 census recorded him as an iron ore miner, living as a boarder at 13 Neville Street, Ulverston.

By the 1891 census, he was aged 32 and married to Sarah A. Hill, who had been born at Whitchurch.

He was the landlord of the King’s Head at 14 Queen Street, Ulverston.

For much of its life the House of Letters was known as the Letters Inn and was at 43 the Gill. 

Trade directories for 1939 and 1951 give the landlord as I. Hunter and in both 1922 and 1928 F. Wilson was in charge.

The I. Hunter is probably for Isobella, as a Bell Hunter and her sister ran the pub into the 1940s, said Doreen Smith.

She recalled the pub facing the bottom of Stanley Street, close to the narrow alley linking the Gill to the former Bugle Horn, on Soutergate.

Bell Hunter had an injured left arm and she had a black-leaded fire and oven in her kitchen.

There were two rooms for drinking in the pub and it is likely the pub was part of the Hartley's brewery empire of tied houses.

There was large room upstairs which might have been used for meetings or social events.

Joe Taylor, of Market Street, Dalton, was an errand boy for the Jenkins Brothers grocers at King Street, Ulverston - next to the Rose and Crown.

He delivered groceries on his shop bike to the Letters inn in 1946 to 1947.

If he was lucky, he would get a two shilling (10p) tip.

Close to the Letters Inn was a slaughter house, later a garage.

Mr Taylor recalled flocks of sheep being walked there from the auction mart on Lightburn Road.

They weren't keen to go in the building but an animal termed a "Judas goat" would be used to lead the sheep in.

There was also Geldard the blacksmith.

Mr Taylor's bike would also take him to the top of Soutergate to Flan How, then the home of Sir Matthew Fell.

He would deliver the basic food ration to the two people who lived there and place it on a scrubbed table in the servants' hall, which had a bell system to call people to different rooms.

He would take a quarter of tea, a pound of sugar, a pound of sausage and some lard and margarine.

Mr Taylor never saw anyone while making his deliveries to the hall but the week before Christmas there would be a two shilling coin (10p) left on the table for him.

Claire Potts, of Ulverston, wrote: "The House of Letters was in the Gill.

"I'm almost sure it was the house on the right hand side at the bottom of the alleyway that connects the Gill and Soutergate - it comes out by the old Bugle Horn."

Alan Tomlinson, of Kikrby, had a suggestion as to how the brass token could have been used.

He wrote: "A man on his way home on payday would put a sum of money over the bar, his change would be given in these tokens, thus guaranteeing  his future custom."