The Elephant Inn (Photographs) was run by William Ducksbury from about summer 1885 until November 1889 with the annual rent being £70. In Feb 1889 he was in Kendal Magistrates court for allowing the pub to be used for gambling and was fined £5 plus costs and had his licence endorsed. The pub was later was auctioned after refusal of the magistrates to renew the license. William also ran a blacksmith business "Ducksbury and Black" with John Black but he disolved the partnership in March 1889 (possibly with John Black continuing the business). In December 1889 and August 1891 William Ducksbury received letters from an uncle, John Cockroft (who had left Kendal to go and work in Snohomish (1, 2) Washington State) advising him to sell because of the 'dangers' of running a pub. He had already just sold the business and then made a failed attempt to obtain a pub licence in Liverpool. He went to sea as a steward sailing from Liverpool to Philadelphia on the 'SS Ohio', Ships discharge papers. He then dissappeared until about 1900 before reappearing back in Liverpool and remarried in 1901. In 1917 he inherited £300 from Henry Cockroft, (presscutting, will) which he used to purchase a sweat shop in Crosby, Liverpool.
John Cockroft from Kendal was killed in a fall from scaffolding and died 2 July 1892 aged 61 he was buried in woodlawn cemetry, Snohomish county, presscutting )

William Ducksbury (photographs) served in the Cumberland and Westmorland Yeomanry in the 1870 - 1880's,

J. H. HOGG was a photographer in Kendal during the 19th century. In the 1851 census he is listed as an apprentice to an artist whilst in the 1861 census he is a photographic artist. Then in the 1885 T. H. Bulmer Directory, he is listed as a photographer working at 71 Stricklandgate in Kendal, (and later listed in the Town & Country directory directory of 1908-9).