Name: The Black Bull Tavern
Address: 190 Victoria Road, Walton-le-Dale
The Black Bull Tavern is one of the areas lost beerhouses, having opened in the mid-19th century but then closed in the early 1900s just 50 or so years later. It was located on the west side of what is now Victoria Road at no.190, which is the site of the Riverside Medical Centre today.
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| 1891 OS Map |
On the 1891 map above you can see the street known as 'Tongue's Yard', to the left of the letter A and the Black Bull was the larger property fronting onto Victoria Road at the bottom of the yard.
The Beerhouse Act of 1830 had brought about opportunity for local people to open their houses for the sale of beer, in an attempt by the government of the day to reduce the excess consumption of gin, and it's likely that this tavern would have been one-such beerhouse.
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| 1871 Census James Green |
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| 1881 Census George Bramley |
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| 1891 Census William Rigby |
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| 1901 Census Jane Turner |
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| 2025 Google Map |
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