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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Had a look at page 16, you quote.
the Hope & Anchor Hotel at numbers 21-23 Whalley Rd (still is from what I can gather).
That is where you are wrong again, the present day numbers are 27 & 29, as they were in the licencing reports & the 1871 census, why should the numbers on that block have changed to suit you, and then be exactly the same today.
You claim the newspaper reports & the census returns are wrong, so all the millions of people doing their family history, are according to you wastng their time, all those record are wrong then are they.
If that is so, what makes the records you keep quoting any better.
Retlaw
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Once again Ratlaw, you have taken one line from one of my comments and used it out of context. When I said ''it still is from what I can gather'' I meant the pub is still there, as opposed to the Slater's Arms which I had just mentioned a line or so earlier in that comment (which is long gone).
No I don't think the millions of people using using census returns or newspaper reports are wasting their time, but as you have proven again and again in your comments, they certainly shouldn't be relying on them. I did state somewhere amongst my comments that no single source should be accepted when doing research and emphasized the the need to cross reference and cross reference again. That is exactly what I have done with this little debate, cross referenced the OS map with the directories, an army record, the electoral registers and old photographs (one photograph that actually names some of the shops that match the directories and the Burgess Rolls of the time). That is why I am confident that circa 1935, The Slater's Arms was No 13 Whalley Rd.
What have you given as your evidence? An 1869 licensing report and an 1871 census. The photos you uploaded prove nothing, other than in one of them, the pub in question was standing.
It's a good job you are an ''historian'' (and I use the term loosely) and not a hanging judge.