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cashman

09-09-2011 22:14

Re: Australian Inn

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 932383)

:alright:And it was a handy place to go after being bounced out of Joe Morts

when i was bounced down Morts steps,twas straight in the Big Crown.:D

Eric	09-09-2011 22:41

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 932387)

when i was bounced down Morts steps,twas straight in the Big Crown.:D

My memory is fading:confused: ... was that a Dutton's house?

cashman

09-09-2011 23:17

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 932396)

My memory is fading:confused: ... was that a Dutton's house?

Nah Big Crown was a "Samuel Smiths" house- crap ale but a good boozer.;):D

Eric	10-09-2011 07:23

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 932403)

Nah Big Crown was a "Samuel Smiths" house- crap ale but a good boozer.;):D

Ah ... Sam Smith's ... I think I filed that, along with Massey's, as something not to drink until the after shave is all gone:D

Gremlin

10-09-2011 07:32

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 932333)

Thats not how I remember him Gremlin:D

Nor me John but I suppose he had to get smartened up for the lorry advert.

jaysay

10-09-2011 08:25

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 932368)

yep twas one of me first watering holes, as quite a few on here are aware.:D

Ya wasn't that your day care centre, pre-school:D

jaysay

10-09-2011 08:26

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 932383)

:alright:And it was a handy place to go after being bounced out of Joe Morts

Ah so you counted the steps too Eric:D

jaysay

10-09-2011 08:28

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 932414)

Ah ... Sam Smith's ... I think I filed that, along with Massey's, as something not to drink until the after shave is all gone:D

Massey's:eek::eek::eek::eek: I wouldn't have washed my feet in that stuff, they used to us it as paint stripper:D

jaysay

10-09-2011 08:29

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Originally Posted by Gremlin (Post 932416)

Nor me John but I suppose he had to get smartened up for the lorry advert.

The picture I have of him is some one carrying a little more weight than that too:rolleyes:

claytonx

10-09-2011 11:58

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Talking of Joe Morts I used to staff there, got in free and a pie at half time, but Tuesday nights and Sunday afternoons we had beginers Iwas 18 and we had to learn ond dance with women in their 40s with large busts ==== very exciting times for a teenager

Gremlin

10-09-2011 18:20

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Originally Posted by Gremlin (Post 932098)

The Australian Inn was situated at Bull Bridge, closing in 1964 after being declared an unsafe structure. Built in 1846 by a returning penal colonist with rubble from an adjacent stone viaduct.

It closed before I moved over to Accrington and I can't remember it at all. I certainly wasn't one of the unruly mob who drank to excess and was turfed out, other pubs maybe but not guilty this time.

I posted the above recently in reply to clayton x, seeing as nobody has corrected it I guess I must have found the answer.

Bob Dobson

10-09-2011 19:18

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I cannot correct it, but want to be convinced of its veracity. Where has the story
originated? It smacks of the stories about tunnels to Whalley Abbey and elsewhere. What viaduct would there be to demolish in 1846?

Gremlin

10-09-2011 19:26

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson (Post 932564)

Sorry Bob, I found the details on an Historical web site but try as I may I cannot get back to it via Google.
It doesn't say much more than what I have copied and pasted.
Fingers crossed somebody will come up with more information.

Tealeaf

11-09-2011 08:05

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I suspect a little confusion here. This is the only reference I can find to a viaduct:

Australian Inn, Accrington - another lost pub

My guess is the date is slightly out and the viaduct in question is none other than the railway viaduct and the rubble is what was left after construction. Or alternatively, our ex-penal colonist was an early ***** (previous word censored - substitute 'traveller') - who reverted to type and nicked the material off the viaduct site as it was being constructed in order to build his house of inebriation.

I wonder if he subsequently went into further property development and built Melbourne St, Sydney St and Adelaide St? There's definatly a surplus of Aussie linked names around central Accy.

Bob Dobson

12-09-2011 08:01

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Owd on. I am already having trouble finding out why Foster St was so called. The pub being built in 1846 would co-incide with the viaduct being built ( the stone plaque on it says 1848). If only Thwaites' would put their old papers into the Lancashire Archive and not be defensive when asked for information such as 'when was this pub opened'

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