GREAT HARWOOD
Public Houses / existing before 1800 / licensed up to 1860 / licensed 1860 to 1870 / built after 1870 / Dog and Otter / Victoria Hotel
Public Houses 1800 to 1860
Dog and Otter
In 1805 Thomas Hindle leased 340 square yards of land at Cliffe to build the Dog and Otter. He paid Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh £100 and £1 8s 4d per year ground rent. As the Old Billy was just down the road Thomas must have felt there was enough traffic struggling up the Cliffe to warrant another ale-house.
In the early 1800s John Mercer, Arrod's most eminent man, helped to found a choir and they may have practiced here.
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Another pub which has had internal walls knocked down, so losing its flag floored vault. |
| History of The Dog and Otter | |
Lomax Arms
In 1819 Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh sold all of the Upper Town to Richard Grimshaw Lomax making him owner of almost all Great Harwood.
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Unfortunately The Lomax no longer serves beer, or drinks of any kind. |
In 1825 E. Baines published his History and Directory of the County Palatine of Lancaster where
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Great Harwood's ale-houses and their keepers were recorded for the first time. They were :
The Cock |
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John Kitchen |
In the 1841 census there were the same ale-houses and two beer-houses.
One was the Crabtree Inn at Butts in Delph Road the other was "in the village".
The Blackburn and District Directory of 1855 shows no change in the number of
ale-houses in Great Harwood but there are two additions in the 1858 publication.
Wellington Hotel
This was built as a large, private house in 1801 by Adam Dugdale benefactor of the local poor.
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Originally called The Wellington Hotel after the renovation it became The Duke of Wellington.
Plough Inn
Shown here in the early 1900s The Plough must have provided a different atmosphere to the later purpose built pubs.
First licensed in 1854 it was for many years after still a working farm with attached farm buildings and was well placed to serve the Britannia, Victoria and Park mills.
This picture was taken around 1930 or maybe earlier as Nuttall's of Little Harwood was bought by Matthew Brown in 1927 which in turn was swallowed by Scottish and Newcastle. There is an old barn to the left with advertising hoardings covering its walls, there has been extensive remodelling of the frontage and the building has been extended to the right.
The barn has been demolished by 1940 but there was a bowling green in regular use in local league games into the 50s.
Another pub where renovation has meant losing separate rooms although it could have been worse.
The bowling green is now a garden with a children's play area.
Public Houses / existing before 1800 / licensed up to 1860 / licensed 1860 to 1870 / built after 1870 / Dog and Otter / Victoria Hotel
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