Lostock Hall - Tardy Gate Inn

 Name: The Tardy Gate Inn

Address: 1 Brownedge Rd, Lostock Hall

Postcard of the Inn c.1910

Now known as the Wishing Well at Tardy Gate, the Tardy Gate Inn dates back to the early 1800s. The 1844 map below clearly shows the existence of a public house at Tardy Gate and the basic building shape remains the same to this day so I can only assume this was the original location of the Inn. In the latter half of the 1800s and into the 1900s the Tardy Gate was a Whittle Springs Brewery public house.

1844 Map of Tardy Gate

1841 Thomas Johnson

Listed landlords at the Inn were Thomas Johnson (1841), Seth Orrell (1851-), Richard Ashworth (1861), Mrs. Wilcock (-1868), Samuel Yates (1868-), William Sephton (1871), Mr. Warwick (pre-1877), Thomas Wareing (-1877), James Iddon (1877-92), Thomas Howarth (1892-), William Finch (1901), Mary Ann Finch (1911-14), Richard Finch (1914-) and William Marginson (1934).

1851 Census - Seth Orrell

Preston Digital Archive Sepia Postcard RP-PPC c.1914

1861 Census - Richard Ashworth

Preston Herald 11 January 1868

1871 Census - William Sephton

Preston Herald 24 March 1877

Liverpool Mercury 06 April 1878

1881 Census - James Iddon

Lancaster Gazette 25 February 1885

Preston Herald 04 July 1885

Preston Herald 21 June 1890

1891 Census - James Iddon

Preston Herald 27 January 1892

Preston Herald 09 April 1892

Preston Herald 15 February 1896

1901 Census - William Finch

Lancashire Evening Post 05 July 1901

Preston Herald 04 June 1902

Tardy Gate Inn c.1930s

Preston Herald 05 March 1904

Lancashire Evening Post 10 May 1905

1911 Census - Mary Ann Finch

Lancashire Evening Post 15 May 1914

1914 Probate Mary Ann Finch

Lancashire Evening Post 05 March 1915

Lancashire Evening Post 20 November 1915

1934 Crash Photo

Lancashire Evening Post 02 May 1934

Wishing Well at Tardy Gate courtesy of WhatPub