FIGHTING COCKS, Moor Lane

FIGHTING COCKS     #

Moor Lane

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I believe that this inn, and the one of the same name

listed at 24 Fylde Street, are one in the same. The junction where

Moor Lane met Fylde Street, before the opening of Walker Street
and Adelphi Street, and is much changed from its current appearance.

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Until I find out otherwise, I will treat them as synonymous.

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"In 1821?? the "Fighting Cocks Inn" at the bottom of Friargate
was demolished, creating a continuous straight road to be 
called Adelphi Street."
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The "Fighting Cocks" was built on the spot that the Adelphi
Hotel now stands. Whether it's the same building isn't known.,
but see the article lower down, dated 1.4.1837
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MINE HOSTS:

Moor Lane address:
1812 - 14       William Wyke - butcher and Victualler.

1818              Simon Yates

1821              Robert Wilson

Fylde Street address:

1824 - 29      Richard Barton

1832      See article dated 3.3.1832, below.

1832              Rowland Cook
1836                      - sold to Messrs Thomlinson for £750

NOTES:   At one time there was a cockpit in this vicinity. The pub was demolished in the 1830's to clear the way for road and other developments.

In 1832, Polling took place in the 'Jolly Sailors' Inn' and the 'Fighting Cocks.'

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Preston Chronicle  3rd March 1832

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Preston Chronicle  7th April 1832

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Preston Chronicle  28th March 1835

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FIGHTING COCKS: It is agreed and ordered that our
steward be authorised to treat upon the best terms that he can with Mr. Boardman, for the purchase of the leasehold
interest in the Fighting Cocks premises.
Preston Chronicle   24th April 1835 
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The following article, taken from a Preston Chronicle of 1836,
should help you understand the proposed changes
in road lay-outs, etc:-

Preston Chronicle 27th February 1836

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"The Fighting Cocks, which almost directly faces the north end of Friargate, will be taken down, and a straight street (in continuation of the line of Friargate), to be called Adelphi Street, is carried through the hill, at the back of the present old buildings...…...

Preston Chronicle   27th February 1836

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Preston Chronicle  29th October 1836

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EXHUMATION OF TWO SKELETONS IN PRESTON

As some workmen were excavating in the line of an intended new street, through Sherliker's Hill, near the Fighting Cocks, in Preston, on Tuesday last, they met with human bones, and upon baring them, found two perfect skeletons, very little below the surface of the ground in a reclining position. The heads were the lowest down, the feet not being more than half a yard deep in the ground. The bones have been again buried adjoining the place from whence they were taken, and nothing is at present known to throw any light upon the circumstances under which they came into the spot where they were discovered.

Kendal Mercury   14th January 1837

I presume it was the hill, immediately behind the Adelphi Hotel that had Shutt's Flour Mill on it.

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Preston Chronicle  1st April 1837

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