Name: The Wheatsheaf Hotel
Address: Preston Road junction School Lane, Standish
The Wheatsheaf is now a long-forgotten central Standish Pub, which was located on corner plot at the lights where Aldi now stands. Prior to Aldi it was the site of Gateway and then Somerfield supermarkets and the hotel itself was only demolished along with the adjacent J B Almond's Brewery in November 1982.
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| Liverpool Mercury 03 October 1823 |
It first appears on the 1824 directory of Standish as pictured below: -
Listed landlords at the Wheatsheaf were Edward Taylor (1824-34), Lawrence Shorrock (1841), James Speakman (1851-54), John Hilton (1858-61), William Heyes (1869-71), Elizabeth Heyes (1871-72, James B Almond & Elizabeth Almond nee Heyes/Smallshaw (1872-80), William Taylor (1880-95), George William Mather (1901-05), Herbert Banks (1911), Arthur Ernest Naylor (1924) and James Arthur Hollis (1954).
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| 1841 Census |
Lawrence Shorrock was originally from Blackburn and married Sarah Yates, a Standish lass in 1921.
Marriage: 6 Mar 1821 St Wilfrid, Standish, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Sharrock - Blackburn
Sarah Yates - This Parish
Witness: Ralph Sharrock; Thomas Cowling
Married by License by: William Hodgson, Asst. Curate
Register: Marriages 1813 - 1825, Page 121, Entry 362
Source: LDS Film 1526141
Sometime in the 1840's Lawrence and Sarah returned to the Darwen area of Blackburn where they continued in the pub trade running the Red Lion until Lawrence's death in 1853.
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| 1851 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 05 June 1857 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 10 July 1857 |
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| Sheffield Daily Telegraph 02 September 1858 |
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| 24 July 1858 - Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |
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| 1861 Census |
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| Preston Herald 24 January 1863 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 04 November 1864 |
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| Preston Chronicle 07 October 1865 |
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| Preston Herald 26 October 1867 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 22 January 1869 |
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| 1871 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 11 August 1871 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 25 January 1879 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 24 December 1879 |
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| Chorley Standard and District Advertiser 28 August 1880 |
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| 1881 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 24 September 1881 |
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| Chorley Standard and District Advertiser 31 March 1883 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 05 January 1883 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 18 June 1884 |
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| Northampton Mercury 17 March 1888 |
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| 1891 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 16 December 1892 |
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| 1901 Census |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 15 October 1901 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 12 October 1904 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 26 December 1908 |
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| 1911 Census |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 27 July 1912 |
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| Wigan Observer and District Advertiser 24 April 1913 |
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| Burnley Express 13 March 1954 |
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| 1985 after demolition |
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| 1985 |
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| 2016 |
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