Name: The Black Horse Inn
Address: Gregson Lane, Higher Walton
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| Courtesy of WhatPub |
The Black Horse Inn was originally the home of Robert Sharp and his wife Elizabeth.. Robert worked as a blacksmith and they initially lived just up the road in Moon's Mill after marriage in 1840, before moving to Gregson Lane in the late 1840s.
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1840 Marriage of Robert Sharp and Betsey Blazard
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On the 1840 OS Map below there is no trace of a public house, as it only opened in the 1850s.
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1844 OS Map
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| 1841 Census Robert Sharp (Blacksmith) Moon's Mill |
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| 1851 Census Robert Sharp (Blacksmith) |
By the 1850s business was expanding, and they were working the farm alongside the smithy, and employing several workers there. In 1854 Robert was still listed as a blacksmith on the below directory, but later that decade he and Elizabeth opened the Inn.
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| 1854 Mannex Directory Robert Sharp |
Listed landlords at the pub were Robert Sharp (-1871), John Sharp (1871-), Albert Knowles (1891-95), Edmund Ratcliffe (1895), Thomas Robinson (1901), James Rainford (1911-), George Bellingham (1924), William Craven (1939) and Kathleen Horry (-1988).
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| 1860 Electoral Roll - Robert Sharp |
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| 1861 Census Elizabeth Sharp (Innkeeper's Wife) |
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| 1869 Slater's Directory - Robert Sharpe |
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| 1871 Census Robert Sharp |
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| 1881 Census John Sharpe |
In the 1870s Robert had handed over the reins at the inn to his son John; he and Elizabeth moving into the Homestead Farm on Hoghton Lane to see out their years. He died in 1884 and was buried in the parish church.
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| 1884 Burial Robert Sharp |
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| 1885 Electoral Register John Sharp |
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1892 OS Map
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| 1891 Census Albert A Knowles |
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| 1895 Kelly's Directory Edmund Ratcliffe |
THIS DAY'S NEWS
at Liverpool Assizes in which Mary Trainor, aged 30, sought to recover £750 from Edmund Radcliffe, landlord of the Black Horse Inn, of Gregson Lane village, near Preston. The defendant, who is a man of 65, and widower, with a grown-up family, engaged plaintiff...she was awarded £35 damages for breach of promise of marriage.
Published: Monday 25 November 1895
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
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| 1901 Census Thomas Robinson |
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1909 OS Map
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| 1911 Census Summary Sheet James Rainford |
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| 1911 Census James Rainford |
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| 1915-16 Electoral Register James Rainford |
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| 1924 Kelly's Directory George Bellingham |
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| 1939 Register William & Sarah Craven and Kathleen Horry |
Beautiful finish to work
The refurbishment of the pub comes with the retirement of the former licensee Kathleen Horry. Kathleen, now 80, has seen almost 60 years behind the pumps of the Black Horse.
Published: Friday 05 August 1988
Newspaper: Wigan Evening Post
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| 1938 OS Map |
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