BALMORAL HOTEL #
27 Manchester Road [formerly Water Street]
[On the site of what was formerly the 'Black Swan']
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| The Balmoral Hotel faced the opening into Shepherd Street. |
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A highly disreputable place but top right was my bedroom in the late 70's.
It was enormous (to a kid) upstairs, with plenty of small rooms we weren't really allowed in.
There was a stained and bevelled leaded window that looked down from upstairs over the bar area - I remember watching through a crack as the local reprobates and some travellers trashed the place.
The very large back yard had lots of out buildings attached (again we weren't allowed in) and for some reason was littered with sheeps skulls and teeth - maybe it was an old slaughter house.
Probably doesn't sound great but was a real adventure when you're 7 or 8 years old.
ANONIt was enormous (to a kid) upstairs, with plenty of small rooms we weren't really allowed in.
There was a stained and bevelled leaded window that looked down from upstairs over the bar area - I remember watching through a crack as the local reprobates and some travellers trashed the place.
The very large back yard had lots of out buildings attached (again we weren't allowed in) and for some reason was littered with sheeps skulls and teeth - maybe it was an old slaughter house.
Probably doesn't sound great but was a real adventure when you're 7 or 8 years old.
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MINE HOSTS:
1891 Joseph Yates - In the 1891 Cernsus as the "Black Swan"
1891 - 92 Margaret Yates
1892 - 93 Rufus Yates
1893 - 1901 Thomas Moore - went to the Regatta Inn.
1904 Robert Holmes - Former P.N.E. and England footballer. pp. Ian Rigby, Official Historian.
1904 - 07 Joseph Greenwood
1910 - 14 John Frederick Clayton d. 28.6.1914
1914 - 27 Mary Elizabeth Clayton
1931 - 36 Herbert E. Quayle
1938 - 39 James William Morgan
1938 - 40 Cyril E. Spencer & Frances Spencer
1944 - 48 James William Morgan - presumably a second period of tenancy?
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Lancashire Evening Post 18th November 1903
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Lancashire Evening Post 2nd December 1903
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Lincolnshire Echo 16th April 1904
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Lancashire Evening Post 21st October 1904
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Lancashire Evening Post 20th December 1904
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Lancashire Evening Post 11th January 1909
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Lancashire Evening Post 28th February 1907
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Lancashire Evening Post 4th July 1907
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Lancashire Evening Post 30th November 1908
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Lancashire Evening Post 2nd April 1924
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Lancashire Evening Post 7th January 1931
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Lancashire Evening Post 24th August 1931
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Lancashire Evening Post 25th November 1935
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Lancashire Evening Post 10th June 1938
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Lancashire Evening Post 10th September 1938
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Lancashire Evening Post 23rd September 1938
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Lancashire Evening Post 15th March 1940
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Lancashire Evening Post 20th March 1940
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Lancashire Evening Post 9th April 1940
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Lancashire Evening Post 25th November 1941
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Lancashire Evening Post 20th October 1942
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Lancashire Evening Post 30th March 1946
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Census
1891
Joseph Yates 32 years Licensed Victualler b. Blackburn
Margaret Yates 32 wife b. Preston
Rufus Yates 6 Son Scholar do
1901
Thomas Moore 46years Publican b. Preston
Betsy Moore 45 wife do
Henry Moore 21 son Cotton Weaver do
Joseph Moore 19 son Keeper of Common Lodging House do
Mary Moore 17 daughter Cotton Weaver do
Emily Moore 10 do Scholar do
1911
John Frederick Clayton 42 years Barman & Lodging house keeper b. Lyme Hanley, Cheshire
Mary Elizabeth Clayton 40 wife Licensed victualler b. Wolverhampton
Gertrude Dudley Clayton 10 daughter Scholar b. Preston
Winifred Clayton 3 daughteer do
William Henry Dudley 78 father-in-law Retired butcher b. Dudley, Staffs
1921 Mary Elizabeth Clayton 49 years, widow Hotel Proprietor b. Wolverhampton
Gertrude D. Clayton 20 daughter Home duties b. Preston
Winifred Clayton 13 daughter Scholar do
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A highly disreputable place but top right was my bedroom in the late 70's.
ReplyDeleteIt was enormous (to a kid) upstairs, with plenty of small rooms we weren't really allowed in.
There was a stained and bevelled leaded window that looked down from upstairs over the bar area - I remember watching through a crack as the local reprobates and some travellers trashed the place.
The very large back yard had lots of out buildings attached (again we weren't allowed in) and for some reason was littered with sheeps skulls and teeth - maybe it was an old slaughter house.
Probably doesn't sound great but was a real adventure when you're 7 or 8 years old.
I moved in age 12 in Jan 1979. My room was front left with sloped floor.
DeleteThanks for that. It was a regular haunt of mine in the mid-60's. I can't remember the name of the landlord, but I can still picture him, quite tall, moustache and slightly gingery? It was a good place in those days, with entertainment on several nights of the week. Steve H.
ReplyDeleteMy parents ran the pub around 1963'ish. Mum used to do the food, Dad ran the pub. He had gingerish hair, his name was Josh Walmsley.
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