Lost Pub

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Lance

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There was/is a small pub on Whalley Road Clayton.
Situated near Sparth Road.
I spent many an hour in there, dominoes, darts, spud pie, with John Laing.
Could someone give me any information of one or better still both.
Lance
 
Dunno how long you've been south of the equator, Lance...but Accy/Hyndburn now has lots of lost pubs. At a rough guess, we've lost at least 50% in the last 30 years. It may even be nearer to 75%. I can't remember the one up by Sparth Road, though.
 
If you mean The Lamb Inn, it's now been converted into flats - think that The Oddfellows a couple of doors up is still open though.
Only other one I know is The Royal Oak on Sparth Road itself - not sure but I think that's also closed & up for sale
 
AccyMad said:
If you mean The Lamb Inn, it's now been converted into flats - think that The Oddfellows a couple of doors up is still open though.
Only other one I know is The Royal Oak on Sparth Road itself - not sure but I think that's also closed & up for sale
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Thanks,Now I can sleep at night, The Lamb it was.
Oh since 1959
 
I'm just thinking of the pubs there are/used to be roughly from Church to Accy, along the line of Blackburn/Hyndburn Road. The ones marked with an * are now closed:

Commercial*
Thorn
X Guns
Queens*
Stag
Wellington*
Bridge
Tanpits*
Tanpits club*
Oak Tree*
Antley*
Hyndburn*
Miners*
Palatine*
Union*
Last Orders (can't remember original name)
One next door* (Globe?)
Black Bull*
Blockade*
AEU club*
Imperial
't'other one before it.
Apollo.*

Thats 16 closed/demolished out of 23, which I make 70%. It's a poor do for us drinkers.
 
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I'm just thinking of the pubs there are/used to be roughly from Church to Accy, along the line of Blackburn/Hyndburn Road. The ones marked with an * are now closed:

Commercial*
Thorn
X Guns
Queens*
Stag
Wellington*
Bridge
Tanpits*
Tanpits club*
Oak Tree*
Antley*
Hyndburn*
Miners*
Palatine*
Union*
Last Orders (can't remember original name)
One next door* (Globe?)
Black Bull*
Blockade*
AEU club*
Imperial
't'other one before it.
Apollo.*

Thats 16 closed/demolished out of 23, which I make 70%. It's a poor do for us drinkers.
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Last Orders was the Royal and the one next door was definitely the Globe. The one before the Imperial is the Spread Eagle, which was still open last time I walked past it a few months ago. Grim reading indeed, Tealeaf! :(
 
ya missed the "Big Crown" T, now gone, Railway still open, n Nags Head still open.:) then ya reached accys Commercial, dunno what called now? was regency last i knew. was also Horseshoe just down from nags, corner crawshaw st.
 
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as ya included the union, king st club, blockade, palatine, old black bull are along that line also long gone.
 
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ya missed the "Big Crown" T, now gone, Railway still open, n Nags Head still open.:) then ya reached accys Commercial, dunno what called now? was regency last i knew. was also Horseshoe just down from nags, corner crawshaw st.
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Now corrected. I'm a bit vague on Accy town centre - I'm not sure where to cut off, so maybe the Apollo should'nt be on the list. But even with Accy town centre, there's enough closed there.

I guess the Ossy list from the Black Dog to Church Commercial would be even worse.

Ooops...I missed King St Club...so including that/excluding Apollo gives the same %.
 
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Now corrected. I'm a bit vague on Accy town centre - I'm not sure where to cut off, so maybe the Apollo should'nt be on the list. But even with Accy town centre, there's enough closed there.

I guess the Ossy list from the Black Dog to Church Commercial would be even worse.
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i was always a bit vague when i supped in em.:D
 
I think we all know the reasons...cheap supermarket booze..corner shop sales...all those inhabitants along Blackburn Road who have taken the pledge. Its such a dam shame...some fantastic Victorian and earlier architecture, now gone for good.
 
Tealeaf said:
Now corrected. I'm a bit vague on Accy town centre - I'm not sure where to cut off, so maybe the Apollo shouldn't be on the list. But even with Accy town centre, there's enough closed there.

I guess the Ossy list from the Black Dog to Church Commercial would be even worse.

Ooops...I missed King St Club...so including that/excluding Apollo gives the same %.
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Can't remember the last time I had a drink on Union Road, was probably in the Cross 20 years ago, so ain't a clue which are still open, I know the Black Dog and Rose and Crown are still open, Oak Tree? New Inn? Cross? Bay Horse is open I think, Tinker? Foxhills gone, Printers? the Royal ? You wouldn't get gatted starting with a thimble full and doubling up on a Pub Crawl from the Dog to the Commercial, sad very sad:(
 
Tealeaf said:
I think we all know the reasons...cheap supermarket booze..corner shop sales...all those inhabitants along Blackburn Road who have taken the pledge. Its such a dam shame...some fantastic Victorian and earlier architecture, now gone for good.
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True, wonder how manys vanished since the smoking ban?
 
Yes you are correct with the remark about the thimbles.A few years ago i worked the amount out from the Commercial at Church to the Black Dog at the top of Ossy.In 1901 there were 33 pubs on the main road between and starting with a thimble full at the Commercial and doubling up at each pub (approx 143 thimbles to a pint) not so many would get past the Printers (14 pints drunk),then at the Golden Cross where you would be throwing a mere 57,000 pints down the neck.And when you finally reach the Black Dog 30 Million pints would be waiting.
 
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Yes you are correct with the remark about the thimbles.A few years ago i worked the amount out from the Commercial at Church to the Black Dog at the top of Ossy.In 1901 there were 33 pubs on the main road between and starting with a thimble full at the Commercial and doubling up at each pub (approx 143 thimbles to a pint) not so many would get past the Printers (14 pints drunk),then at the Golden Cross where you would be throwing a mere 57,000 pints down the neck.And when you finally reach the Black Dog 30 Million pints would be waiting.
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It used to catch people out at one time Peter, the doubling up of the thimble was part of Ossy Folk lore
 
Talking about old pubs in Accrington and the surrounding area, where was the Ring of Feathers.

Retlaw.
 
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