Name: Waterloo Tavern
Address: 53, Market Street, Chorley
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| The Waterloo Tavern on Market Street 1900's |
The Waterloo Tavern was one of Chorley's oldest taverns before it was demolished in the late 1900's to make way for new town centre development, which took the form of the Halifax Building Society. It first appeared in directories as early as 1793 as the Ship Inn and in the early 1800's was run by an Ellen Anderton until around 1828. At that time, further up Market Street at No.101 was the Waterloo Tavern, run by the Catterall family, who owned and ran the Leicester Mill Quarries up at Anglezarke near Rivington (now a venue for serious rock climbers). In 1822 Thomas Catterall was running the Britannia Inn on Water Street but by 1828 he was at the Waterloo Tavern, a Thomas Hattern having replaced him at the Britannia.
It is around this time that I surmise the Catteralls took over the Ship Inn, renaming it the Waterloo Tavern. The Ship Inn does not appear in any later trade directories and by 1834 Ellen Anderton was running the Black Horse on Chorley Moor (now Pall Mall) so we can safely assume by this time the original Waterloo had closed and from then onwards the Waterloo Tavern is referred to as being at 53 Market Street.
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| Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 05 September 1829 |
In the late 1800's and early 1900's it was owned by Matthew Brown's brewery in Blackburn serving their famous Lion Ales.
Listed landlords at the pub were Richard Godwin (1793), Ellen Anderton (1822-24), Thomas Catterall (1824), Alice Catterall (1829-49), Thomas McLeod (1851), Henry Brierley (1861), Samuel Fairbrother (1865), William Gillibrand (1871-79), William Heald (1881-82), William Gillibrand (1889), Leonard Walmsley (1891), James Wilding (1896), William Henry Wilding (1901), Henry Farnworth (1911-) and John Ainscough (1936).
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| 1841 Census |
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Preston Chronicle 17 November 1849
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Alice Catterall died in 1849 after being at the Waterloo for at least 25 years, but even when Henry Brierley was the landlord in 1861 his wife was an Ann Catterall, so at what stage the family parted hands with the tavern is not clear.
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| 1851 Census |
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| 1861 Census |
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| Waterloo Inn Walking Day Procession early 1900s |
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| 1871 Census |
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| Blackburn Standard 30 October 1875 |
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| 1881 Census |
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| 1891 Census |
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| Blackburn Standard 19 December 1896 |
James Wilding was running the Waterloo in 1896 having previously been behind the bar at the Brooke's Arms aka White House on Brooke Street. By 1901 his son William Henry Wilding was running the Waterloo.
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