Possible Clues:

• 'Cheers' seat
• Stops stolen goods circulating - local furniture, perhaps
• Almost naked, steals back to find somewhere to sit
• Secures what worker needs to make pub furniture
• Seat in a pub
• Drinker's seat
• Place for someone getting a shot
• Old-fashioned accommodation?
• Supporter of local pieces of music on instrument
• Place to sit