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Lost Burnley pubs

Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:21 pm

A thread about old pubs in Burnley and any stories or memories you have of them…

General Havelock - Accringon Road

Great little pub, used to be packed in the late 90s early 00s. Lots of characters, pub of choice for the old Suicide Squad I’m led to believe. Remember an FA Cup final one time the place was packed as was most pubs on FA Cup final day was a big occasion sadly not anymore.

Yatefield

Seemed every doo was here when I was a kid, memories of bacon fries and a can of coke and a room filled with cigarette smoke.

Grew up round the Accy Rd area so I wasn’t born a thick neck :lol: Most the ones I have memories of are round there used to be loads that have sadly gone. Peeps, Scarlett, Fleece, Alma. Used to be a cracking drink from pub to pub.

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Johma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:32 pm

All of the above mentioned are memories of trouble

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by box_of_frogs » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:35 pm

The Manor Barn. Might as well have grown up there!

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Tribesmen » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:37 pm

Waterloo was my fav for a few years .

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Johma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:38 pm

The malt shovel
Manor Barn as mentioned
Red House in the Grove

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by ClaretAL » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:38 pm

Scarecrow ( was then renamed Coaching House) had my best days in this pub with great mates, great entertainment and fantastic laughs. and The Coal Clough Coaching House which was a great diversion on Karaoke night.
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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by bobinho » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:39 pm

Mitre, stork, Waterloo, hop, Nelson and the borough.

Burnley used to be an amazing weekend out on the lash.

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:42 pm

Bull & Butcher
Foresters
Footballers Arms
Canal Tavern

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Johma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:45 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:42 pm
Bull & Butcher
Foresters
Footballers Arms
Canal Tavern
Where was the footballers arms?
Not heard of that one

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:47 pm

Johma wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:45 pm
Where was the footballers arms?
Not heard of that one
Corner of Yorkshire Street and Plumb Street - corner across from where Vintage Claret is now.

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Johma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:48 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:47 pm
Corner of Yorkshire Street and Plumb Street - corner across from where Vintage Claret is now.
The old ladbrokes?

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Inchy » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:49 pm

Dinky pinks

The original concert artists in town (worst toilets in Burnley)

Pub behind the back of the woodman, it was basically someone’s living room. Can’t remember the name, might be Stanley

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by Fazz » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:50 pm

Footballers Arms
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Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:50 pm

Johma wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:48 pm
The old ladbrokes?
Yes. Was definitely a bookies at one time.

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Post by MrTopTier » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:54 pm

The Wellington or Duck and Boot.

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Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:55 pm

Cricketers (Anne Street)
Cricketers (Rosegrove Lane)
Cottage in the Wood
Owl in the Wood
Brunshaw
White Hart
New Albion (now Usher)
Gretna
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Post by ClaretAL » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:56 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:50 pm
Yes. Was definitely a bookies at one time.
I believe they are renovating the betting shop and converting it back to a pub called the Footballers arms.

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Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:57 pm

ClaretAL wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:56 pm
I believe they are renovating the betting shop and converting it back to a pub called the Footballers arms.
Are they really? Long, long time since it was a pub.

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by bobinho » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:00 pm

Griffin on Rossy road.

Wasn't there a `running pump` too somewhere? I thought (incorrectly) it became the Usha.

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Post by bobinho » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:02 pm

Seem to remember one called The New Inn on Cog lane, opposite what i remember as the Brooke Bond building near to Gannow top.

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Post by NewClaret » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:08 pm

Fazz wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:50 pm
Footballers Arms

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Love that photo.

How times have changed (for the worse).
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Post by bfcjg » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:08 pm

Broadswords and Empress grill, two town centre pubs that were bang average.Adelphi,Reindeer up at central station,great for a few beers prior to getting on a special train,Carlton was another one up thatbend of town for away games
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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:08 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:00 pm
Griffin on Rossy road.

Wasn't there a `running pump` too somewhere? I thought (incorrectly) it became the Usha.
Didn’t the Yorkshire ripper drink in there ?

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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:09 pm

Also didn’t the Griffin have topless barmaids.

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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:10 pm

Inchy wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:49 pm
Dinky pinks

The original concert artists in town (worst toilets in Burnley)

Pub behind the back of the woodman, it was basically someone’s living room. Can’t remember the name, might be Stanley
Dickie Pinks was a class little boozer lots of regulars and locals. Shame it closed, a lot of the people who went in there now drink in the Angel which is another cracking pub but thankfully not lost.

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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:14 pm

Coal Clough House was decent on a hot summers day lovely surrounded by woodland, nursery I think now ?

Hob & Gill- Used to play snooker there and have a few underage pints. What did it used to be called ?

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Post by bobinho » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:17 pm

Pleasant home & pride i think
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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:18 pm

Johma wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:38 pm
The malt shovel
Manor Barn as mentioned
Red House in the Grove
Red house, had some good sessions in there when Patey had it. Rough as rats but they are the best pubs.

The Junction has gone now to I believe, about 50 of us every weekend in there when we was about 17-18 basically kept the place running :lol:

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Post by MACCA » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:19 pm

PadihamThickNeck wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:14 pm
Coal Clough House was decent on a hot summers day lovely surrounded by woodland, nursery I think now ?

Hob & Gill- Used to play snooker there and have a few underage pints. What did it used to be called ?
Pleasent home and pride
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Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:26 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:00 pm
Griffin on Rossy road.

Wasn't there a `running pump` too somewhere? I thought (incorrectly) it became the Usha.
I think you are correct. I think the New Albion became the Running Pump before the Usha.
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Post by bobinho » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:32 pm

I see, cheers CT

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Post by Barlickclaret » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:32 pm

Duke of york
The derby
Waggoners
Wheatsheaf
Old duke
Finest pub crawl going. All gone!

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Post by elwaclaret » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:39 pm

Never got used to not passing the Towneley Arms on the way over top bar; it used to be a beacon on a cold winters travel home as usual once it became a meal venue it lost its character and couldn’t survive when the Chef retired I believe.

And right at the top the Deerplay (but that isn’t Burnley).

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Post by Staniola » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:47 pm

The Bull’s Head (Bull’s Nut) on Buccleuch Street just off Coal Clough Lane. That was someone’s front room!

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Re: Lost Burnley pubs

Post by MACCA » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:47 pm

Reedley Hallows
Plane Tree
White Hart

Did most of my under age drinking in them along with The Prairie, but that's still going.

Others that have gone that I remember and haven't been mentioned

General Gordon
Lane Ends
Marsden Cross
Black Bull
Derby
Great Mare
Dragoom
Adelphi
Sparrow Hawk
Cattle Market
Irish League

Used to be one near Burnley league across from Lower Tentre but I've forgot its name, think it closed early 2000s

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Post by Barlickclaret » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:53 pm

Corporation

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Post by Johma » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:56 pm

White horse padiham

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Post by PadihamThickNeck » Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:59 pm

MACCA wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:47 pm
Reedley Hallows
Plane Tree
White Hart

Did most of my under age drinking in them along with The Prairie, but that's still going.

Others that have gone that I remember and haven't been mentioned

General Gordon
Lane Ends
Marsden Cross
Black Bull
Derby
Great Mare
Dragoom
Adelphi
Sparrow Hawk
Cattle Market
Irish League

Used to be one near Burnley league across from Lower Tentre but I've forgot its name, think it closed early 2000s
They used to put the away fans who had come off the train into an escort to the Cattle Market for awhile.

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Post by brexit » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:03 pm

Plane tree first pub on the pub crawl into Burnley.
Was the Duke of York? (I think at the top of Gannow roundabout) officially in Burnley). There was one on the bacup road before crown point Hargreaves arms?

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Post by XDS » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:03 pm

Corporation across from Lower tentre, used to love going from park view around "club land" and under culvert.
Also doing half nights starting at top of syke or top of Burnley wood and seeing how far you could get, brilliant times

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Post by brexit » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:04 pm

oh and the Stanley round from the Woodman on Oxford Rd

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Post by Vino blanco » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:08 pm

One or two in the centre along St James Street, which I never went in (too young) but were still open when I was a lad in the late 50s, early 60s: The Clock Face, The Masons Arms, The Dog and Duck, the Fox and Pheasant on Cow Lane, 5he Corporation Arms round the back of the old market hall, the Dog and Partidge on West Gate, the New Market Hotel on the market square, the Thorn Hotel, the Well Hall. As I said I haven't been in any of these pubs for a drink but I do remember seeing them as a kid; I always had a fascination for pubs even way back then.

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Post by turbo5 » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:20 pm

In my 50's now my drinking career started up Accy road about 1978 (was about 14/15 Wood top Alama Fleece and the Peeps remember the Clarion club and Yatefield
Into town about 8pm first stop Jimmy's (St James bar) when it was just a thin bar and next door was the carpet shop. Then the Empress grill (Card shop now) Broadswords on the market balcony then up to the Carlton Standish Street . Then the Concord before the Cats/Circ /Hop/Savannahs /Angels wall required different levels of being sober and dress code
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Post by karatekid » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:22 pm

Black Bull on Marsden road and The Lanehead on Kibble Bank. Spent many a Saturday afternoon in the Lanehead playing Chase the Ace whilst supping a few Thwaites smooth. Black Bull was great on a Thursday night. Disco night. Full of friendly girls too ;)

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Post by Cubanforever » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:22 pm

Loved The Sidewalk, Corporation was good Friday after work, the Wellington was cracking on match day, the White Hart and Carlton were easy going, used to work with a lad whos dad had Dickie Pinks....a real place and always enjoyed the Irish League....great memories with some great lads, like the places mention a lot of them gone RIP

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Post by Vino blanco » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:23 pm

brexit wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:03 pm
Plane tree first pub on the pub crawl into Burnley.
Was the Duke of York? (I think at the top of Gannow roundabout) officially in Burnley). There was one on the bacup road before crown point Hargreaves arms?
The pub at the top of Gannow was the Derby Hotel, the only Duke of York I can remember was up Colne Road way.

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Post by ClaretTony » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:25 pm

brexit wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:04 pm
oh and the Stanley round from the Woodman on Oxford Rd
Has the Stanley gone? Good pub at one time.

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Post by karatekid » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:25 pm

Rose and Thistle was always my choice before the game. Con club on Plumbe st was a good meeting place too.

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Post by Cubanforever » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:27 pm

Also remember setting off for Liverpool away in the cup from the Havelock early one Saturday around 7am....think we stopped off at Brownhill on the way home....sticks in the memory

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Post by Philss_99 » Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:28 pm

PadihamThickNeck wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:10 pm
Dickie Pinks was a class little boozer lots of regulars and locals. Shame it closed, a lot of the people who went in there now drink in the Angel which is another cracking pub but thankfully not lost.
My Auntie & Uncle used to run the Dickie Pinks

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