Old Pubs

Tealeaf said:
But that's exactly it, Walter - the dates. This stuff is all the later part of the 18C/early 19th -
Those routes I quoted were the old routes into Old Accy. The dates I gave are when those old highways were eventually made into proper roads.
Those routes must have been well used for them to have been made up, practically every river has a ford or a bridge some where along its route.
Tha lives nearer to public record office than what I do, go and have a look.
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I have no doubt that wagons and private coaches stopped at and used the Bull; but my guess is their main travelling guests would have been sheep rovers and the like.[/quote]
Cattle & sheep drovers were more likely to bed down near their stock, on common land, than stay in places like the Bull or the Bay Horse.

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Bob Dobson said:
I've never heard the term 'grain court' but it might have had something to do with the corn mill just across the road in Hyndburn Rd, then called Hagg Lane.

I too think that 'coaching inn' can be a term which takes in horse-drawn travel of any sort. It could have been the reason why a farrier /blacksmith was just around the corner from The Bull. I think that the name Bull Brtidge is still visible in the wall of the old bridge somewhere near the car park entrance, pout there buy the County Council c 1890, but it is likely, certainly possible, that there was a bridge there before that, and before a bridge there would be just a ford. It could be said that this was the very centre of Accrington in (say) 1700
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I bought a fantastic book a few weeks ago in a Charity Shop called "The Accrington Old Water Corn Mill - it's History and Owners"

Really interesting read about the Corn Mill and it's surroundings
 
Tealeaf said:
Talking about mills, this piccy cropped up the other day on the Homebase site. Am I the only one that sees an outline of a waterwheel on the old building on the right:

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f124/from-the-viaduct-10635.html

It's the piccy on the left...the links have gone to pot.
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Is this what your on about.
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cashman said:
i was always told in 60s the "Bull" was n old "Grain Court" whatever that was,:confused: twas the landlord Ken Green that told me, in recent times i have been told it was not, so aint a sodding clue.:confused:
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Was he any relation to Ted Green who had what is now the Bees Knees cashy
 
There are some cracking photos in the book 'Industry & Prudence' ; a lan for Accrington (1950) including ones of the Australian & the Olde Black Bull (p86) and The Warner Arms when it had a shop alongside it on the Church St side -now part of the pub. (p109) There's one which might have been taken from the front door of the Black Bull (p63) One just catches the Abbey (p52). I think there's one wjhch shows the side of the Arden and the name of the Blackburn Brewing Company(?) on it but I cannot now find it. There's also a drawing - very scarce this - of Bank Brewery (p18)
 
That was another book I bought a couple of weeks ago in The British Heart Foundation Shop in Accrington - really interesting book full of wonderful old photographs
 
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