Australian Inn - Page 2

cashman · 09-09-2011, 22:14

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Originally Posted by Eric

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.

Eric · 09-09-2011, 22:41

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Originally Posted by cashman

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

My memory is fading

... was that a Dutton's house?

cashman · 09-09-2011, 23:17

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Originally Posted by Eric

My memory is fading

... was that a Dutton's house?

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

Eric · 10-09-2011, 07:23

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Originally Posted by cashman

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

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

Gremlin · 10-09-2011, 07:32

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Thats not how I remember him Gremlin

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

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

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

jaysay · 10-09-2011, 08:26

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Originally Posted by Eric

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

Ah so you counted the steps too Eric

jaysay · 10-09-2011, 08:28

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Originally Posted by Eric

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

Massey's

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

jaysay · 10-09-2011, 08:29

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

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

claytonx · 10-09-2011, 11:58

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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'