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Eagle Hotel

Name: The Eagle Hotel

Address: 122 Bolton Street, Chorley


The Eagle, or "Little Eagle", as it was known locally in deference to the larger Eagle & Child on Pall Mall started life as the Weaver's Arms and appears to have only changed names in the 1850s when it changed landlords from William Norris to Thomas Jackson. It did not appear on directory records as the Eagle until 1854.

Listed landlords were Nathan Birchall (1841), William Norris (1851), Thomas Jackson (1851-65), William Calderbank (1871-76), Joseph Winkley (1879), Henry Welch (1881), Elizabeth Welch (1882), Joseph Whalley (1889), James Harter (1891), Joseph Saxon (1901), Thomas Hull (1911-), Arnold Burrows (1930), Thomas Holmes (1935-) and Linda Treadwell (2015).


1841 Census


1851 Manney Directory
The 1851 directory above shows William Norris as a a beer house keeper on Bolton Street, so from this record it's clear that it only became a fully licensed Inn after the directory was compiled and this will have coincided with the change of name to the Eagle.

1851 Census
1854 Mannex Directory

Interestingly, the 1854 directory above, whilst showing Thomas Jackson running the Eagle also records previous landlord William Norris at the Eagle & Child.


1861 Census
Wigan Observer and District Advertiser - Friday 15 February 1867

1871 Census
Eagle Hotel (courtesy of WhatPub)
1881 Census


Northern Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 06 March 1889

1891 Census
Beer Garden

1901 Census

1911 Census
1921 Census Thomas Hull
Lancashire Evening Post 18 November 1930

Lancashire Evening Post 30 April 1935

Lancashire Evening Post 05 July 1935

Chorley Guardian 21st July 2020


September 2020

January 2021

July 2021

1 comment:

  1. Pity. Spent a lot of time there in my youth. Several family parties. Every Christmas afternoon. Every Friday night. Al gone. Ce sera

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