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 1900s to make way for new town centre development, which took the form of the Halifax Building Society. Located at what was no.101 Market Street in the early 1800s, it was 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 1824 he was at the Waterloo Tavern, a Thomas Hattern having replaced him at the Britannia.
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| 1824 Baines Directory |
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| Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 05 September 1829 |
In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was owned by Matthew Brown's brewery in Blackburn serving their famous Lion Ales.
Listed landlords at the pub were 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 |
During the the 1860s the street numbering changed on Market Street (see post below from Toppo for full details), the Waterloo Tavern from then referred to as being at 53 Market Street.
RE; "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"
ReplyDeleteThe numbering of Market Street was altered around 1862(ish), making evens on one side and odds on the other. Prior to that, the numbers went up in single digits, beginning at the Big Lamp end and along the west side as far as Back Mount, then continued back up the other side until again reaching the Big Lamp end on the eastern side. I can't remember how I found it out now, but I used several old maps (pre1862) and used known reference points - the public houses - and counting through the old single digit numbers and as near to perfect as can be expected, the numbers matched. For example, counting down from the Waterloo Tavern at 101, going towards the Park Road end of Market Street, all the numbers of known pubs matched the places they were in on the maps. As such, the Waterloo Tavern was numbered 101, but became 53 when the street was renumbered around 1862. The Ship in fact, numbered 53, was almost across the road from Fazakerley Street, probably on the site that is now the Nat West Bank. This is further verified by The Joiners (numbered 120) and the Millstone (numbered 136). The Joiners, after renumbering, became 113. The Millstone was a higher number and must have been likewise after renumbering, putting it around todays Cunliffe Street area - the same area in which a coal mine operated, coincidentally called Millstone Pit.
That sounds like it was a labour of love, but really useful and informative, thank you. As as completely different building I've deleted the reference to the Ship Inn and will add this as an additional pub on the blog. Cheers.
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