Name: The Rose and Crown aka
Thatched House Tavern
Address: 15, Saint Thomas's Road,
Chorley
The Rose & Crown first appeared in Chorley Directory
records in 1811 and since that time has been known as either the Thatched House
Tavern or the Rose & Crown. The
earliest record showed the Innkeeper to be a Lawrence Jackson but by 1835 and
for the next few decades it was run by Richard Wilson, a Whittle-le-Woods man
and his wife Nancy who hailed from Anderton. Richard remained at the Rose &
Crown until the late 1870s when it was briefly in the hands of an Elizabeth
Hartley before Thomas Rigby from Wheelton took over.
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| 1835 Poll Book and Electoral Register Excerpt for Chorley |
Thomas was a
grocer’s assistant and licensed victualler but had moved on by the 1891 census
when another lady was in charge, Alice Walker. Alice was a widower, a Chorley
lass and 65 years of age at the time of the census; 20 years previously she was
running the Gillibrand Arms at 20, Market Street with husband William. In 1896 Samuel Heath was the licensee having previously run the Robin Hood on Clifford Street but he had moved on by 1901 and was running the Clarence Hotel in the town centre.
By 1901 Peter
Crook from Salmesbury had taken over, John Hargreaves was there in 1904 and again more change by 1911 when Sarah
Brooks from Shropshire was the Hotel Proprietor. Edmund Exton was the landlord in 1921 and by 1933 Mr. & Mrs. A Beesley were the proprietors.
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| 1841 Census |
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| Preston Chronicle 20 February 1847 |
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| 1851 Census |
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| 1861 Census |
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| 1891 Census |
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| Blackburn Standard 19 December 1896 |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 17 May 1900 |
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| 1901 Census |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 08 March 1901 |
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| 1911 Census |
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| 1921 Census Edmund Exton |
From 2008 to July 2018 the Rose and Crown was run by Danielle Smith and her mother Andrea Smith.
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| Danielle and Andrea Smith July 2018 |
In 1939 the licensee was James Bentham, whose grandfather Thomas had run the Black Horse at Wrightington and the Brook House/Windmill Inn at Heskin.
ReplyDeleteOn 17 August 1904, when Margaret Ann Hargraves marries at St. Laurence's, she gives her age as 18, address as the Rose & Crown and her father as John Hargraves, Licensed Victualler. Because she gives no trade it's not certain that John was licensee, but it seems likely.
ReplyDeleteMy 3rd great grandfather was Richard Wilson. I love all the photographs of the Rose and Crown and learning the various innkeepers that lived there. Finding out that it was also called the Thatched Tavern has solved a mystery for me too. Thank you
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