Walton-le-Dale (Higher Walton) - Pineapple Inn

Name: The Pineapple Inn

Address: 44 Hoghton Lane, Walton-le-Dale

Google 2018 Lower Jannock Farm

These days, 44 Hoghton Lane does not exist, but census records from 1891 and 1901 confirm the existence of a beerhouse called the Pineapple Inn, at either 44 Hoghton Lane (1901) or 44 Blackburn Road (1891), which I can only surmise are the same location, as Blackburn Road changes to Hoghton Lane close to this point, at the junction with Gregson Lane. 

At 42 Hoghton Lane, Lower Jannock Farm is likely to have been the location of the Inn in the absence of any other buildings on the enumerator's route on this stretch of the road, used a beerhouse during this period, as was typical in the mid-late 1800s.

1909 OS Map Lower Jannock Farm

Listed landlords at the Pineapple Inn were Thomas Woodruff (1861-71), Thomas Newsham (1881), Nathan Ashworth (1891-) and Thomas Lillis (1901).

1861 Census Thomas Woodruff

1869 Slater's Retailers of Beer - Thomas Woodruff

1871 Census Thomas Woodruff

1875 Electoral Register Thomas Woodruff

1881 Census Thomas Newsham

1891 Census Nathan Ashworth Pineapple Beerhouse

1895 Kelly's Beer Retailers Nathan Ashworth

1901 Census Thomas Lillis

Thomas Lillis died in 1908 and his probate record confirms that by this time they had moved out of the Pineapple Inn.

1908 Probate Thomas Lillis

By the time of the 1911 census there is no trace of the inn, with Patrick Meaney (labourer) living at 44 Hoghton Lane. Ten years earlier he was next door at no.45, so it appears the inn closed in the intervening years, probably with compensation paid to the owners, as there were already too many beerhouses open in the area.