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Hi all. Does anyone know if there used to a pub across the road from the petrol station on Abbey St (Next to the Swan). It would have been closed for many years.

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Yes it was an Irish Pub if I remember right - Muldoons?

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I think that was the Hargreaves Arms and what is Grants now. I am led to believe that the pub was on the opposite side of the road a little further into accrington

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Yes that building was a pub....but many many years ago.
I have been scratching me head to try and remember what it was called, but alas the grey cells are letting me down.
Cashy might just remember.

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Think it was the Red Lion yer on about jo-jo, twas across the road on the corner of abbey st n black abbey st, think in 60s Clarksons Tyres had the building, i may got the name wrong, memorys not what it was.:o

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Just do a search and enter Red Lion Jo Jo, has been spoken about many times on here. This is one thread for you.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ews-50140.html

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Cheers Kate, said me memorys crap, had forgotten that thread.:D

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Cashy my dearest, if there is one thing your memory can rely on, it is the names of our pubs past and present... :D:D

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Even thats not what it was, but suppose it is me strongest point.:D

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Kate, that is why I volunteered him to give Jo-Jo the answer....I felt pretty damn sure that he would have the answer.(though I reckon he was too young to have supped a pot of ale in there...unless they served tinlids)

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Correct never did sup in yon, n i was supping from n very early age, can never remember the pub open,would be interested on when it closed.:):confused:

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Thanks everyone that was a great help. We are tracing our family history and we have been led to believe that our Gt Gt Grandma was the landlady there, but could not find either the name of the pub or if there was even a pub in that area . (Family legend has it that she was the 1st ladylady in Accrington but dont know if this is true).

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thats a great photo Atarah put on the old thread i'd forgotten about. No1.:) just noticed that thread was only 8 months ago, senility is setting in. lol

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There is a chapter on the Red Lion Hotel in the book "The Old Homesteads of Accrington & District" which gives a lot of detail and also an old photograph of the Hotel.

If you are chasing up if your ancestor was the landlady there and at what time then you could check the Licensing sessions in the old newspapers to see when she took over and when she left. There are a few on line but not many.

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If your Gt Gt Grandma was the first, then she would have had competion.
Abbey Inn. Mary Ashworth. 1894
Bird in Hand. Sarah Grimshaw. 1869
Black Bull. Elizabeth Ratcliffe.
Colliers Arms. Mary Haworth 1869
Commercial. Jane Harrison.
Crown Inn. Martha Bentley. 1860
Globe Inn. Ellen Stuttard. mid 1800's

Those are just a few of the female landlady's
Retlaw.