Name: Spencer's Arms
Address: 6, Longton Row (previously known as Longton's Folly), Dilworth, Longridge
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| Spencer's Arms c.2021 (now a residential property) |
The Spencer family owned and ran one of the main quarries in Longridge and Thomas Spencer, like his father James before him was a Quarry Master at the Tootal Heights quarry in the early to mid-1800s.
This Inn carried the family's coat of arms and was likely to have been owned by the family in the early days and was also a working farm in the 19th century.
Listed landlords at the Spencer's Arms were James Banks (1848-), Ellen Dewhurst (1851), John Banks (1861),William Banks (1858-81), Joseph Bamber (1882-85) and Abel Kay (1901).
Stone quarrying was one of Longridge’s major industries. The sandstone was of excellent quality and there was a ready market for it for municipal and other large buildings in Lancaster, Preston and as far away as Liverpool (Smith 1888, 43). The stone quarries at Tootle Heights, which were working by 1837 (LRO DRB 1/63), were of major importance to the early development of the town. The need to transport the stone to Preston for working and redistribution was the prime motivation behind the opening of the railway in 1840, and this accelerated its development from a village into a town. Stone was being supplied for Liverpool Docks as early as 1821 (Till 1993, 54). The stone was also used for the building expansion on Berry Lane and for many local churches as well as for municipal buildings and churches throughout Lancashire (British Geological Survey 1992, 95).
By the late nineteenth century, in addition to Tootle Height Quarry, there was also Spencer’s Quarry, Lord’s Quarry and Nook Fold and Green Banks Quarries, as well as an old quarry shown by Seven Acre Farm (OS 1893 1:2500). The quarries prospered until about the 1880s, when competition from brick and concrete caused a decline in the industry (Till 1993, 48).
(Longridge Historic Town Survey 2006)
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| 1930 Map showing Spencer's Quarry |
Baptism: 10 Sep 1848 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs
Alice Elizabeth Banks - [Child] of James Banks & Mary Ann
Abode: Hothersall
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Baptised by: W. C. Bache Incumbent
Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 39, Entry 307
Source: LDS Film 1657578
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| 1851 Census - Ellen Dewhurst |
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 10 May 1851 |
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| Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 15 September 1855 |
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 10 November 1855 |
Baptism: 28 Mar 1858 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.Elizabeth Banks - [Child] of William Banks & Margaret
Abode: Hothersall
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Baptised by: W. C. Bache
Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 85, Entry 678
Source: LDS Film 1657578
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 24 September 1859 |
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 01 October 1859 |
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 20 October 1860 |
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| 1861 Census - John Banks |
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 20 July 1861 |
Baptism: 29 Dec 1861 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.
William Banks - [Child] of William Banks & Margaret
Abode: Hothersall
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Baptised by: W. C. Bache
Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 106, Entry 848
Source: LDS Film 1657578
Marriage: 19 Nov 1863 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.
John Banks - 30, Auctioneer, Bachelor, Dilworth
Jane Norcross - 29, Spinster, Dilworth
Groom's Father: William Banks, Inn Keeper
Bride's Father: William Norcross, Farmer
Witness: George Banks; Alice Pickup
Married by Licence by: William C. Bache
Register: Marriages 1838 - 1895, Page 50, Entry 99
Source: LDS Film 1657578
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| Photograph showing the farmhouse and outbuildings |
Baptism: 3 Jan 1864 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.
Margaret Banks - [Child] of William Banks & Margaret
Abode: Hothersall
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Notes: [The year is written as 1863. Margaret Banks was registered Q4 1863. Buried at
Goosnargh 5th Jan 1868 age 4]
Baptised by: W. C. Bache
Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 118, Entry 941
Source: LDS Film 1657578
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| Preston Chronicle - Saturday 21 December 1867 |
Baptism: 25 Oct 1868 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.
Agnes Banks - [Child] of William Banks & Margaret
Abode: Dilworth
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Baptised by: W. C. Bache
Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 147, Entry 1170
Source: LDS Film 1657578
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| 1869 Polling Lists |
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| 1871 Census - William Banks |
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| Blackburn Standard - Saturday 19 February 1876 |
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| Blackburn Standard - Saturday 04 March 1876 |
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| 1881 Census - William Banks |
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| Blackburn Standard - Saturday 11 February 1882 |
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Preston Herald - Saturday 10 March 1883
 | Preston Herald - Saturday 21 February 1885
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1891 Census - James Waring - Quarryman
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In 1891 the occupant of the Spencer's Arms (Farmhouse) was a quarryman, James Waring. Next door on the census was a Lodging House at No.7, which by the 1901 census 10 years later seems to have and incorporated Nos 6 & 7 occupied and run by Abel Kay.
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1901 Census - Abel Kay (Lodging House Keeper)
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All reference to the building being a pub disappeared in the 1880s.
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| Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 31 August 1945 |
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| c.2021 Looking down Langton Row |
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