Name: The King’s Arms
Address: 45, Bolton Street, Chorley
The King's Arms is one of Chorley's oldest Inns having first been listed in the 1793 directory and whilst no longer trading as such the building still stands and has been used as both a car showroom and currently as the Living Waters church as shown above.
Listed landlords were James Ashurst (1793), Thomas Scowcroft (1818), M Scowcroft (1822), Robert Houghton (1824-27), Charles Shaw (1835-41), Waterhouse Davenport (1849-1853), George Sumner (1861), Harriet Sumner (1865), William Brindle (1871-79), Joseph Greenwood (1882-89), George Tootell (1891), Joseph Ainscough (1901), James Edwin Finney (1911) and Thomas Carey (1914-1936).
 |
| Lancaster Gazette 24 November 1827 |
 |
| 1841 Census |
 |
| Preston Chronicle 17 March 1849 |
 |
| Preston Chronicle 10 November 1849 |
 |
| 1851 Census |
 |
| 1861 Census |
 |
| 1871 Census |
 |
| 1881 Census |
 |
| 1891 Census |
 |
| 1901 Census |
 |
| 1911 Census |
The King's Arms was an Oldfield Brewery house in the early 1900's as evidenced by the below advert from 1914 showing Thomas Carey as the landlord (bottom).
 |
| 1921 Census Thomas Carey |
No comments:
Post a Comment