[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

I disassociate myself from Retlaw's comment about mind games. He it is who is playing games by starting this thread in the first place with a question instead of saying right at the outset that The Railway pub was called the Spread Eagle. If I'd done that it would'nt have been a challenge for Katex.

I have doubts about it, thinking there could be some explanation other than his own of what he and nobody else has seen. Show us.
I've already shown you, why have you accepted all the other things I gave you and yet reject this.

I agree that it feasible that a pub opposite Eagle St would have the word Eagle in its name , but the pub was not there in 1842 and was called The Railway in 1853. Name changes in those days were almost unheard of and this hotel was built to attract rail travellers.
There was plenty of travellers along Blackburn Rd in stage coaches before the railways came.

Rev Burgess' writings which Retlaw refers to will soon become widely available in print and on CD in the library. They mostyly refer to evidence obtained from land/propert ownership records and from ecclesiatical/judicial archives of the period 1tth to 18th centuries.

The Rev Burgess wrote a lot about the local area,
I'm refering to his history of Accrington and district.

Retlaw.