Spinner's Arms (Harpers Lane)

Name: The Spinner's Arms

Address: 9, Harpers Lane, Chorley

The Spinner's Arms no longer stands today but was located at the bottom of Harper's Lane, below the railway bridge where the car park for Aldi now is. It closed in 1980 and was demolished thereafter to make way for redevelopment.

Listed landlords were John Morrison (1861), James Rutter (1871), Edward Exton (1881),  W R Dawson (1882), John Thomas Holt (1891), Thomas Appleton (1901), Joseph Mullineaux (1911), Thomas Schofield (1920), Esther Mullineaux (1921), Margaret E Atkinson (1936) and Margaret & Jim Wiggins (-1975).  The building dated back before 1881 and was a grocer's shop in 1871 run by a James Rutter and a cotton weaver, John Morrison's home in 1861. 

1861 Census

1871 Census

Marriage: 8 Jan 1881 St Peter, Chorley, Lancashire, England

Thomas Blackledge - 20 Joiner Bachelor of 85 Bolton St. Chorley

Isabella Exton - 22 Weaver Spinster of 9 Harpers Lane

Groom's Father: Joseph Blackledge, Joiner

Bride's Father: Edward Exton, Publican

Witness: Thomas Ince; Mary Jane Exton

Married by Licence by: Thomas Lund, Vicar

Register: Marriages 1852 - 1893, Page 175, Entry 350

Source: LDS Film 1517687

1881 Census

1891 Census

The Spinner's Arms left of picture with windows steeled prior to demolition

1901 Census

1911 Census

Lancashire Evening Post 13 October 1920

1921 Census Esther Mullineaux