Leyland - Leyland Lion

Name: The Leyland Lion

Address: 60, Hough Lane, Leyland

Originally the Post Office sorting office on Hough Lane as pictured above, the Leyland Lion is another Wetherspoons pub that has seen the transformation of a building with historical importance converted into a local public house.

Annotated Map 1928

The pub is named after a couple of the town's most famous exports, which were bus chassis from Leyland Motors,  the Leyland Lion PSR1, a rear-engined single-deck chassis built between 1960 and 1967 and Leyland-DAB Lion, mid-engined double deck bus chassis manufactured between 1986 and 1988.