Name: The Beef Slake Inn
Address: 25 Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale
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| 1891 OS Map |
The Beef Slake Inn had a short-lived existence as a beerhouse on Higher Walton Road, appearing just once on historical records on the 1901 census when run by a Henry Snape. It would have been in one of the terraced houses along this stretch of the road, and close to where the Victoria Hotel opened in the early 1900s.
It's a really unusual name for a beerhouse, possible a play on 'Beef Steak', replacing the 'Steak' for 'Slake', implying this was somewhere you could quench or satisfy your thirst.
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| 1909 OS Map |
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| 1901 Census Henry & Maria Snape |
Henry was brought up in Walton-le-Dale, his father Matthew working in the cotton mills, but by the age of 23 he had married and was living on Blue Bell Yard in Preston managing the 'Coffee Tavern'. Whether or not this was a licensed premises remains unclear, as 10 years later they'd moved to Brook Street and he was working as a grocer, but he certainly had an interest in the licensed trade, and by 1911 he was landlord at the Market Hotel on Tithebarn Street.
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