An Illustrated History of Old Sutton in St.Helens

Part 19 (of 41)  -  Old Pubs and Beerhouses in Sutton & district

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Header image:  Regulars pose for a photograph at the old Clock Face Inn

A- Z of Sutton Public Houses & Beerhouses

• Alexandra Hotel - Fisher Street, (off Peckers Hill Road) - Thomas Williams surrendered license to Thomas Lunt in December 1871 - In April 1899 landlord Edward Westhead, who'd been licensee since 1877, was prosecuted for allowing gambling on his premises - Closed 7th March, 1932

• Alma Vaults - Peasley Cross Lane - Not to be confused with pubs in Duke Street, Liverpool Road and Eccleston - Closed 11th February, 1922

• Beehive Inn - Moss Nook - License transferred in March 1891 from William Jones to David Chenney - In May 1895 license transferred from Michael Bryan to Jane Bryan -

• Boars Head - Mill Lane / Elton Head Road - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - Joseph Large was licensee in 1800 - William Sharples in 1891 -

• Boilermaker Arms - 30 Hoghton Road - Bessie and Edward Armitstead ran the pub early in the 20th century - Nicknamed 'Arky's' or 'Arkie's'. It has been claimed that the monicker was as a result of a customer named Arkwright who kept a regular slate at the pub and one day, unable to pay his debt, had a big argument with the Armitsteads over it. However, in more recent times, rugby league legend Jack Arkwright kept the Boilermakers and it seems far more likely that the nickname was derived from him. 'Big Jack' played rugby league for Warrington and for St.Helens and was the grandfather of Chris Arkwright who played for Saints from 1978–1990. Dave Latham writes to this website:
     The pub was definitely named Arkies after Jack Arkwright and he was the landlord when I was working at the Rolling Mill during the 1960s. He was a giant of a man with a pock marked nose and cauliflower ears. As well as the beer and meat pies (Pimblett's I seem to remember), he was very progressive and had a juke box. We lads used to go there when a new number 1 Mersey Beat was released, especially the Beatles. I remember him telling me off after I played "Love Me Do" five times, one after the other. The Christmas shut down was especially great. We finished work at 12 and went up the pub and some of the office and lab girls would join us. I got so drunk once my Dad had to come and collect me and I was ill all over Christmas!   

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  Boundary Vaults - 73 Bold Road - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - On September 23rd, 1874 labourer John Dixon of "Pecker's-hill" died of "excessive drinking of whisky" after entering the pub already drunk then gulping down half a pint of whisky followed by a gill. "Immediately afterwards he fell down insensible" reported the Liverpool Mercury (25/9/1874) - Joseph Greenough licensee in 1891, declared bankrupt in October 1895. Carl Boddy has written to this website to say: "My great-grandfather was Joseph Greenough on my mums side. My mum used to say that her granddad was a drunken old sot who used to drink the pub dry, regularly. That probably explains why he went bankrupt in 1895." - Renamed 'The Sutton Oak' around 1990 despite not being within the Sutton Oak district - In August 2006 it won CAMRA Pub of the Year award for best pub outside the Liverpool district - Closed c. 2009 -

• Bowling Green Inn - 220 Watery Lane - In 1873 the license was transferred from Thomas Peers to James Bullen - Thomas Whalley publican in 1891 - On February 7th 1893 the Liverpool Mercury reported that the Bowling Green had been refused a new music license but no reason was given - John Thomas Addison granted license in 1894 - Closed 9th July 2006 -

• Bowling Green Inn - Robins Lane - Mr. Baines was licensee c.1930 - Brenda Macdonald writes to this website from Sydney, Australia: "Mum's school friend Margaret Baines was the daughter of the licensee and although Mum was never allowed in the front door of the pub (only children who lived there were allowed), the girls used to play on the footpath outside the pub door, which is now fenced off, and were given milk to drink on hot days."

• Bridge Inn - Sutton Road - In August 1882 license transferred from Thomas Rigby to George Milne - in October 1884 license transferred from Joseph Parr to Thomas Halton - in May 1900 license transferred from Henry Bickerstaffe to Alfred Smith - closed 10th August, 1929

• Bridge Inn - Peasley Cross - Jack Ashton was both publican and undertaker - now site of Peasley Cross Labour Club

• Brynn-y-Fillin - Watery Lane (formerly Ditch Hillock) - James Yates Jnr. recorded as taking over the license from Ann Ingleby in 1892 -

• Bull and Dog - 2 Clock Face Road - John Greenhaugh the licensee in 1800 - Thomas Brown 1891 -

• Bulls Head Inn - 13 Worsley Brow - Ann Hope licensee in 1891

• Chester Lane Tavern - 14 Chester Lane - Samuel Harrison was licensee in 1884 - On January 17th, 1894, the Liverpool Mercury reported that Thomas Howard of 147 Appleton Street had appeared at St.Helens Police Court the previous day, charged with stealing five meat pies valued at 10d. The lad had entered the Chester Lane Tavern, found it to be seemingly empty and then "took off his clogs, crept behind the counter, and helped himself to a plate of meat pies". He was given six strokes with the birch - In May 1900 the license of the beerhouse was transferred from Jane Harrison to Mary Jane Harrison - Closed 16th July, 1919

• Church Inn - The Liverpool Mercury of August 15th, 1871 mentions in a report of St.Helens license transfers that the Church Inn, Sutton had passed from Thomas Woodward to Ann Woodward -

• The Clock Face (1st) - Clock Face Road - Thomas Grace licensee in 1800 - In February 1894 license transferred from Elizabeth Colquitt to Richard Colquitt
  

• Clock Face Hotel (2nd) - Clock Face Road, located on the opposite side of the road to the original - Opened 1909 - James Lawrence Snr., the owner of Clock Face Crisps, left £100 in his will to the staff of the pub when he died in March 1985 -
  

• Coppersmiths Arms - 296 Watery Lane - Beerhouse keeper Peter Lees, licensee since 1892, appeared in court in 1896 charged with being drunk on his own licensed premises; he was arrested by Sergeant Jackson on 4th July after celebrating the festival of the Rose Queen in Sutton but the case was dismissed -

The Coppersmiths pictured in the mid-1970s – contributed by Dave Latham

• Crown Inn Tavern - Clock Face Road / Chester Lane - Listed in 1891 census as Crown Vaults - The Austin family ran the pub then, with Enoch Austin having obtained the license in October 1884 from Thomas Griffiths and then transferring the license to Joseph Austin in March 1891 - closed 31st December, 1930

• Crown Inn - Peasley Cross Lane - Closed 13th January, 1917
  

• Crystal Palace - Ditch Hillock (Waterdale Crescent) - Located on the eastern side, just before the road joined Robins Lane. It was only the size of a terraced house and part of a block of buildings. When Greenalls asked for permission in the late 1930s to open the new Wheatsheaf pub in Mill Lane, it was made a condition that three existing pubs should close. These were the Crystal Palace, Engine and Tender and the existing Wheatsheaf in Lionel Street (source Chris Coffey - see Wheatsheaf entries for more details) - The Bullocks ran the Crystal Palace in 1891 with James transferring the license to Mary Bullock in March 1891 - Closed 12th January, 1935

• Ell Bess Vaults - Ell Bess Lane (Sherdley Road from 1902) - Closed 8th March, 1932 - Ell Bass or Bess was also the name of the petrol station that opened on the Sutton Bug cinema site after its closure a quarter of a century later - According to the St.Helens Newspaper of 1/4/1938, it used to be kept by a Betty or Bess Seddon "whose vigour in keeping unruly customers in order was such that she was given the name of Hell Bess" - In February 1894 license transferred from Rosanna Brownbill to Henry Johnson -

• Elephant Inn - Edward Bromilow, licensee in 1800 -

• Engine and Tender - Reginald Road, Sutton Leach - It is set back from Reginald Road, on the north side and on the west side of the railway line, close to the bridge. The old Abbotsfield Road that linked Leach Hall with Bold Hall came up the south side of the Hall and passed in front of the Engine and Tender. When the railway and Reginald Road was built, Abbotsfield Road was relegated south of Reginald Road to a footpath (source Chris Coffey) - The Engine and Tender served as both a farm house for Leach Hall Farm and a public house - Jacob Wood licensee in 1884 - Closed 1st March, 1938 - last landlord and farmer was Mr. Garton. He was offered the new pub that was being built in Mill Lane, which was to have also been called Engine and Tender, but turned it down (see Wheatsheaf and Crystal Palace entries for more details) - The pub was renowned for its gambling both on and off the premises.

• Engine - John Bromilow had the license in 1800 -

• Engine Shed Inn - Baxters Lane - John Thomas Addison granted license in 1891, George Shaw in 1894, John Morris 1895 -

• Farmers Arms - 1 Bold Road at its junction with Normans Lane - Anne Livesley publican in 1891 -

• George and Dragon - Peasley Cross Lane - William Duxburry licensee in 1891 -

• Glasshouse Tavern - Watery Lane - In the Liverpool Mercury of July 19th, 1878 the Glasshouse was offered for sale by auction.

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  Glassmakers Arms - 22 Waterdale Crescent (originally 22 Ditch Hillock) - Opened around 1860 - In April 1874 license transferred from Peter Sephton to Robert Bridge who was also a builder and Bridge was declared bankrupt in 1880 - In October 1884 license transferred from William Spencer to George Brown - In 1891 census the listed publican was James Bath - On February 7th, 1894 a "respectably-dressed middle-aged man" drank a pint of beer at the Glassmakers then went out back to an outhouse where he cut his throat; the Liverpool Mercury (8/2/1894) reported that it was "dreadfully cut from ear to ear" - Ernie Middlehurst was licensee from c.1944 to 1965 - An article in the St.Helens Reporter of October 6th, 1972 claimed that Londoners who'd moved to Sutton to work for Sidac had taken a shine to the Glassmakers Arms and had given it their own pet name:
     A new influx of "Cockney" office workers at British Sidac has taken to the Glassmakers Arms, in Waterdale Crescent, as a lunchtime local. Spotting the new facelifting job - including stylish stucco-type rough plaster walls (in proud Tudor fashion) they promptly dubbed it: The BLIND PLASTERER.   
  
  
  
  
  Tap Room of the Glassmakers Arms, 1965 from L to R: 1) Tommy Spencer, railway shunter who travelled by autocycle; 2) Unknown; 3) Ernie Middlehurst - landlord - one of the last of the old school - Jack Walker of Coronation Street could have been modelled on him; 4) Enoch Westhead and 5) Jimmy(?) Westhead.
  (Contributed and comments by Ken Whittaker)
  
  
• Golden Cross - 5 Church Street then Woodcock Street, 'Pudding Bag' - Tom Woodcock was said to be the first landlord of then Golden Ball pub and in 1902, when the street changed its name from Church Street, it was renamed after him. - The pub was renamed The Golden Cross because it was usually the first port of call for people leaving the 11am Sunday Mass at neighbouring St.Anne’s church. - Thomas Archer licensee in 1884 - Samuel Cox licensee in 1891 - Ann Foster licensee in the early 1930s with Louie Holland mine host in 1935 and later Louise Hunter - Last licensee was said to be Mick Caulfield although another source says Joe Holland - Closed mid-sixties -

• Green Dragon - Gartons Lane, Sutton Manor -

• Griffin Inn - 147 Peasley Cross Lane - Josiah Foden had the license in 1800 - Henry Houghton in 1891 - "The eyesore of an empty pub was demolished in 2005, after five years of gradual dereliction. The site is being cleared to make way for new flats" (source an undated St.Helens news report) -
  

• Hawk and Buck - 91 Peasley Cross Lane - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - In August 1879 license transferred from James Bate to George Houghton who was still licensee in 1891 - James Cunliffe granted license in 1900 -

• Imperial Hotel / Inn - 354 Sutton Road - Opened in 1869 and listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - David Jones listed as licensee in 1891 - In March 1980, 800 Sutton residents signed a petition to try to stop its closure after licensee Phil Soffe was refused a new license because of how the premises were being run -

• Junction Inn - 102 Junction Lane - The McDermott family ran the pub for many years from 1932 - See Memories of Sutton 5 article 'The Rolling Mill Tavern and the Junction Inn' by Alan McDermott - Celebrity regulars included boxer Ernie Proudlove and footballer Bert Trautmann -
  
  

The Junction Inn in Junction Lane, Sutton c.1960 - contributed by Alan McDermott


Greenall's tenancy agreement with Michael McDermott to run the Junction Inn - contributed by Alan McDermott

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  Locomotive Inn - 78 Ellamsbridge Road, corner of Peckers Hill Road - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - The Locomotive was nicknamed 'The Round House' by Suttoners because of its curved structure - Spinster Ellen Haslam assisted by her sister Margaret ran the pub in 1891 - On December 1st, 1896 two sinkers at Bold Colliery, Michael Flannery and Lawrence Garrity, got into an argument at the Locomotive whilst having a drink; the row spilled outside and the dispute led to Garrity of Normans Lane, Sutton receiving a serious stab wound to his neck; "blood", according to the Liverpool Mercury, "flowed profusely" (December 2nd, 1896) - The Locomotive Inn closed during the mid-1970's

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  Manor Arms - 351 Sutton Road - Renamed 'The Pickled Egg' after pubgoers' nickname for the hostelry - Charles Green licensee in 1891 - In February 1894 license transferred from Thomas Waywell to Valentine Walls -

• Mechanics Arms - Ellamsbridge Road - In August 1882 license transferred from Alexander Laird to James Felix - Samuel Mason granted license in 1893 - In February 1894 license transferred to Edward Williams - nicknamed 'Staffordshire Knot'

• Mill House Inn - Mill Lane - The Mill House pub takes its name from the former water mill that was located on the opposite side of Mill Lane - On December 29th, 1881, 78-year-old labourer Samuel Helsby of Marshalls Cross was burned to death in the taproom at the Mill House; he probably fell asleep over the fire - In November, 1899 brothers-in-law Thomas Holland and Ambrose Price were convicted of wounding licensee John Latimer by breaking a poker over the landlord's head and Holland was fined 15 shillings.
  
  William J. Cope had been a skilled sailmaker on a sailing ship and had long connections with the sea prior to pulling pints at the Mill House. When he left the pub as licensee, he took nearby premises and became a successful tent and marquee maker. In July 1909 when King Edward V11 visited Knowsley Hall, to inspect detachments of the Territorial Army, Lord Derby ordered a tent from Cope to accommodate a shooting party. The family enterprise eventually closed in 1967. - In 1983 £70,000 was spent by Tetley Walker in refurbishing the Mill House.

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  Navigation Tavern Inn - William Bate licensee in 1800, George Nortcliffe in 1863 - Numerous inquests were held at the pub during the 19th century - It was in close proximity to St.Helens Canal and many deaths were suicides or accidental drownings such as on June 20th 1868 when 50-year-old William Gillibrand of Greenough Row, Sutton threw himself into the canal by the tavern - In 1876 new premises were built -

• New Vaults - Peasley Cross Lane - listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - James Moyers licensee in 1891 -
  
  
  
  New Vaults in Peasley Cross Lane - contributed by Sutton Historic Society

• Oak Tree Inn - Ellamsbridge Road - major building contractor John 'Bally' Whittaker, who was 31 stone, was licensee c.1880 -

• Off Licenses - a) 253 New Street - In May 1900 license transferred from Edward Needham to W. Stockley b) 10 Grimshaw Street - In May 1900 license transferred from Francis Helsby to Thomas Sephton c) 337 Mill Lane (near the Bull and Dog & opposite Marshalls Cross school) - William Bath then daughter Lucy Bath were licensees. The beer pumps were in the cellar and customers would bring jugs to be filled.

• Phoenix Brewery - Peckers Hill Road - founded by Jane Barrow and later owned by the Wilcock and Finlay families - it supplied ale both to pubs and direct to the public -
  
  
  

• Pickled Egg - see Manor Arms

• Pig and Whistle - Ell Bess Lane (later Sherdley Road) - In August 1879 license transferred from James Marsh to Peter Marsh -
  

• Plough Inn - Hoghton Road - Closed September 1912 -

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  Prince of Wales - 2 Junction Lane - In April 1874 license transferred from Margaret Houghton to Ellen Kenyon who in the 1891 census was listed as the 78-year-old licensee with Ellen's grandson John Houghton as manager and later licensee - Norman Edwards wrote in an undated Whalley's World in the St.Helens Star, that every Sunday his grandfather preacher Lott Kitts and his mission would position themselves in Junction Lane in front of a small police-box to "blast anyone entering or leaving the Prince of Wales pub" with fire and brimstone warnings for "anyone sober enough to listen". -

• Queen's Arms - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 -

• Queen's Head - Worsley Brow - closed 10th March, 1931 -

• Railway Inn - 10/12 Worsley Brow - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 and the 1891 census with publican William Burrows - Closed 18th January, 1935 -
  

• Red Lion Inn - Robins Lane - The Red Lion has been nicknamed 'The Glass Barrel' - The original Red Lion Hotel was demolished in 1963 and a new pub was built on land at its rear - The landlord in December 1871 was Hamlet Norris - Landlord Thomas Lunt was made bankrupt in 1879 - In 1892 an application was made to transfer the Red Lion's license from James Baldwin to James Pilkington. However, doubts were raised as to the moral fibre of Pilkington with one newspaper reporting allegations that he was a ladies man:
    Chief Constable Wood stated at the last transfer day that he had been informed that Pilkington had got five women into trouble, and he opposed the granting of the license until he had made inquires into the matter. Since then one young woman had taken out a summons against Pilkington, and it would come on for hearing on Friday next. He had not heard anything further as to the other four women. In answer to Mr H. L. Riley who appeared for Pilkington, Chief Constable Wood stated that he knew Pilkington denied the paternity of the child. He also knew that the girl had made the same charge against a member of the police force. Mr Riley addressed the court on Pilkington's behalf, stating his sister would attend to all the domestic arrangements of the house. Pilkington had received a testimonial of the highest possible character from his former employers Messers (sic)Pilkington Brothers for several years service.    (Liverpool Mercury 14/6/1892)
  William Lythgoe was granted the license at Red Lion in 1894 - Sarah Armstrong granted license c.1896 - Former manager John Armstrong declared bankrupt in February 1900 - Charles H. Rainford granted license in 1900 from Sarah Battersby who'd had it transferred from her husband - Elizabeth Cole granted temporary license in June, 1916 as her husband who was the landlord had been called up to join the army -
  
  The Red Lion on the corner of Robins Lane pictured in June 2006 during the World Cup

• Red Rat Inn - 2 Ellamsbridge Road - Opened around 1850, closed 29th January, 1927 but not demolished until 22nd August, 1960 - The Barton family ran the beerhouse from about 1887 until the 1920s - John Rimmer was the last licensee - In Frank Bamber's 'Clog Clatters of Old Sutton', he states his belief that the pub was so named because of the residues of rouge used in glassmaking, which when discharged into the Sutton Brook, coloured the water and the creatures in it red - This was confirmed by a Whalley's World article in the St.Helens Star (date unknown), which also claimed that in a national survey of 60,000 public houses, the Red Rat was found to have been the only one in Britain with that obscure title -
  

• Rolling Mill Tavern - 31 Watery Lane - Kept by Michael and Louisa McDermott from 1910 until 1932 and nicknamed 'Snig's Foot' - See Memories of Sutton 5 article 'The Rolling Mill Tavern and the Junction Inn' by Alan McDermott - In 1932 Michael McDermott moved to the Junction Inn and his brother Patrick McDermott took over the Tavern’s premises, running it as a coal delivery business -

• Ship Inn - William Houghton licensee in 1800

• Soldier - Peasley Cross Lane - Closed 1906

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  Stanley Inn - Peasley Cross Lane - Listed in Worrall's Directory of 1871 - On June 19th, 1896 the licensee John Webster was fined 10 shillings for being drunk on his own premises - On November 26th, 1890 coal dealer and carter George Eccleston sued landlord William Duxbury for £50 damages as a result of Duxbury's fox terrier biting him on his thigh when he was delivering coal to the Stanley Inn - In May 1900 license transferred from John Cunliffe to William Chadwick - Closed in 1932 or 1936 -
  

• Swan Inn - Baxters Lane - Thomas Leyland granted license in 1890 - Closed 1910 -

• Sutton Arms - Corner of Sherdley Road and Elephant Lane

• Sutton Oak - See entry for Boundary Vaults above

• Three Tuns - Jane Finney was licensee in 1800

• Tipping Arms - Bold - In August 1882 license transferred from James Melling to Thomas Langhorn -

• Victoria Vaults - 32 Ellamsbridge Road - Nicknamed 'The Little Pig' as it was located close to Fletcher's slaughterhouse and it has been claimed that the landlord would accept piglets instead of cash. It was so listed on the 1891 census with licensee William Almond and the pub now bears both names - In 1871 there were three pubs called Victoria in St.Helens - In December 1871 James Kenyon transferred the license to Ellen Kenyon -

• Vulcan Inn - Peckers Hill Road - In April 1874 the license was transferred from George Sephton to Thomas Appleton -

• Wheatsheaf Hotel (1st) - Lionel Street by the Junction Station (listed as 2 May Place in 1891) - Robert Silcock was a publican - last landlord was demolition contractor Dave Rothwell - closed 1938 -

• Wheatsheaf Hotel (2nd) - Mill Lane, Sutton Leach opened in 1938 - Frank Bamber in his memoirs 'Clog Clatters in Old Sutton' described how brewers Greenalls gave a free pint to all who attended the opening with local preachers John Kitts and Billy 'Chippy' Southern unsuccessfully attempting to stop a large crowd from entering the new pub, warning that it was "the House of the Devil" - It was originally going to be called the new Engine and Tender but after the landlord of the old pub, Mr. Garton, turned down an offer to manage it, the pub was offered to Dave Rothwell who in accepting took with him the Wheatsheaf name - Pub has a renowned sloping floor and has been prone to flooding -
  
  

• White Angel - Nook Lane - nicknamed 'The Blazing Stump' - built in 1762 -

• Wind Mill - William Liptrot mine host in 1820 -

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