Name: Victoria Hotel
Address: 97 Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale
The Victoria Hotel was an Edwardian public house, built in the early 1900s on the previous site of a detached residential property, demolished to make way for the development. It first appears on the 1909 OS map below and the 1911 census that followed a couple of years later.
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1909 OS Map
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| Photo by Stuart Dawson |
Listed landlords at the pub were George Tod (1911-), William Henry Mather (1924) and Edward Helm (1939).
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Matchbox Cover
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| 1911 Census - George Tod |
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| 1914-16 Electoral Register George Tod |
The next landlord, William Henry Mather was destined to run a pub; born and brought up in Higher Walton, spending his formative years living at the Farmers' Arms, when run by his father John Mather. He was working as a book keeper/clerk in the 1890s, living with his wife Isabella and his sister Elizabeth who was by then running the Farmers'.
By 1901 was working for a wine merchants, as a clerk before working as a '
Wine & Spirit Traveller' in 1911.
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1921 Census - William Henry Mather
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| Victoria Place c.2025 |
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| 1924 Kelly's Directory - William Henry Mather |
William and Isabella remained at the Victoria for a decade or so before moving on to Lytham St Anne's where he worked for a bakers before retirement. Edward Helm, a Prestonian then took over the Victoria.
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| 1939 Register - Edward Helm |
The Victoria finally closed in 2008 and was demolished to make way for new housing.
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| c.2025 |
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