Lostock Hall - Welcome Inn

Name: Welcome Inn

Address: Hennel Lane, Lostock Hall

The Hunters c.2017

Originally opened as the Welcome Inn this pub is now known as The Hunters and is a relatively modern estate pub dating back to around the 1970s situated just off the A6 roundabout on Hennel Lane near to the Capitol Centre. 

1909 Map of the area

The map from 1909 above shows Hennel Lane and Hennel Bridge in close proximity to Walton Hall (now demolished) before the area was redeveloped in the latter half of the 20th century to make way for the Capitol Centre and housing development.

Walton Hall 1800s

It was definitely open at least in the 1970s, when it was a pub surrounded by fields rather than by a housing estate. I have a note that it was originally a Whitbread pub and that in the late 1970s it still had Duttons on its outside signs (I think the Duttons name was dropped about 1974/75). Also what I do remember is going to the pub and seeing parachutists being dropped to land in the neighbouring field. (Gordon Small 2022).

The Hunters is now a public house owned by Thwaite's brewery.

Courtesy of Gordon Small