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).
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| 1841 Census |
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| 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.
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| 1851 Census |
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| 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.
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| 1861 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser - Friday 15 February 1867 |
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| 1871 Census |
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| Eagle Hotel (courtesy of WhatPub) |
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| 1881 Census |
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| Northern Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 06 March 1889 |
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| 1891 Census |
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| Beer Garden |
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| 1901 Census |
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| 1911 Census |
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| 1921 Census Thomas Hull |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 18 November 1930 |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 30 April 1935 |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 05 July 1935 |
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| Chorley Guardian 21st July 2020 |
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| January 2021 |
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| July 2021 |
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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