Name: The Queen's Tavern
Address, 6, Preston Street, Chorley
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| Queen's Tavern c.1960s |
The Queen's Tavern is a distinctive building standing on the main road into Chorley from the north and is opposite the Parker's Arms Hotel. It is pictured above in 1978 when it was still a tavern but is no longer open for business today. Following closure it was reopened as a Chinese Restaurant for a while but that has now closed too and its future remains uncertain.
Listed landlords were John Higginson (1841-51), Henry Kellett (1871-91), William Sharratt (1901), John Abbott Evans (1911), Arthur G Piggott (1921-36) and Elaine Shirley Urcelay (-1982). John Higginson's daughter Mary married Henry Kellett and after John died Henry and Mary carried on the business.
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| 1841 Census |
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| 1851 Census |
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| Queen's Tavern c.1970s |
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| 1861 Census |
Henry Kellett was living at the Queen's Tavern in the 1861 and 1871 census but is not listed as a beer seller or licensee, rather his original trade as a clogger and also farmer in 1861. Whether or not it was operating as a tavern during this period remains unclear.
Thank you for this. John Higginson was my 4 x great grandfather, I wondered where he was a beer seller from, now I know.
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