Prince Albert

Name: The Prince Albert aka Waterloo Tavern

Address: 101, Market Street, Chorley

The Prince Albert c.1870

The Prince Albert was first listed around 1841 and was located on Market Street between its junction with Halliwell Street and Anderton Street. The photos above dates from c.1870 and shows the landlord Thomas Gillett stood on the doorstep. By 1870 Thomas Gillett (now 71 years of age) had retired and was living with his son John Gillett and his family at the Crown Hotel on Chapel Street where John was the landlord.

The pub actually started life as the Waterloo Tavern, run by the Catterall family (Thomas & Alice) in the mid-1820s, but when they moved to the Ship Inn at No.53 Market Street in the late 1820s they took the name with them and this pub was reborn the Prince Albert probably around 1840 at the time of Queen Victoria's marriage.

Waterloo Tavern

Listed landlords at the Prince Albert were then Peter Turner (1841), Michael Common (1851) and Thomas Gillett (1861). After Thomas Gillett retired and moved in with his son the Prince Albert appears to have closed for good, as subsequent censuses show the property used for other retail purposes.

1841 Census

1851 Census

1861 Census

The 1871 census below shows an "Cotton Power Loom Overlooker", Thomas Sanderson and his family had moved into the property, and over the decades that followed it was clear its life as a beer house was well and truly over.

1871 Census Thomas Sanderson

The buildings have changed significantly over the last 100+ years and is now the home of two businesses, a hairdressers, Sizzor Sisters and Minutes Mobiles (c.2022).