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Bob Dobson · 13-11-2009, 18:38

I wonder if Retlaw knows that there is a beerhouse, the style of which leads me to think it was built in the pre-railway era, further along Blackburn road. It is called The Spread Eagle. Is it likely that there would be two pubs in close proximity with the same name? There may well have been a building on the Railway Hotel site, pre 1848, but I am not convinced it was a pub called The Spread Eagle. We don't know just when The Railway pub was built. I am wanting to admit that Retlaw is correct. He often, but not always, is.He seldom is temperate in presenting his pints,preferring to accuse others of blinkered viewing and playing mind games. If he didn't have some good qualities I would go round and break his windows.Them as lives in glasshouses......

Between the Railway Hotel and the Spread Eagle was another pub, though I don't know when it was built Not as early as the Spread Eagle I think. It was called The Albion ( Albion St is nearby) but since the 1870s (?) it has been called the Imperial.

13-11-2009, 18:38	#167
Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Re: Puzzle for kaytex I wonder if Retlaw knows that there is a beerhouse, the style of which leads me to think it was built in the pre-railway era, further along Blackburn road. It is called The Spread Eagle. Is it likely that there would be two pubs in close proximity with the same name? There may well have been a building on the Railway Hotel site, pre 1848, but I am not convinced it was a pub called The Spread Eagle. We don't know just when The Railway pub was built. I am wanting to admit that Retlaw is correct. He often, but not always, is.He seldom is temperate in presenting his pints,preferring to accuse others of blinkered viewing and playing mind games. If he didn't have some good qualities I would go round and break his windows.Them as lives in glasshouses...... Between the Railway Hotel and the Spread Eagle was another pub, though I don't know when it was built Not as early as the Spread Eagle I think. It was called The Albion ( Albion St is nearby) but since the 1870s (?) it has been called the Imperial.