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 site of 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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| 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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