Leyland pubs

[David]

Many moons ago when we lived in Preston/Walton le dale, my wife and I used to take the Ribble bus to the Leyland Tiger for a night out on the town. Back then, circa 1960, the Tiger was a fairly well known pub around the south Ribble. And didn't Leyland have a few pubs name after the 'stars'....Seven Stars, etc ?? Are any of these places still open, and is there any 'history' connected to any of them ?? [?][?][8D]

[Martin]

Hi David
The Leyland Tiger was transformed into a "Fun Bar" called the Hippodrome, around the start of the 90's. Then it was derelict for a few years and has recently been reduced to a pile of rubble. I believe a block of flats is being built on that piece of land (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). The Tiger name came from one of Leylands buses.

As for the Seven Stars, there were a few pubs with that name but I think the only one or perhaps two that are left, are at the bottom of Fox Lane, in the Seven Stars area of town (oddly enough). I seem to remember that there was a Seven Stars pub next door to the Original Ship in Towngate. As for the name, I'm not sure how that came about, is it some reference to the constellation of The Plough?

[LDunlop76]

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Originally posted by Martin


As for the Seven Stars......... As for the name, I'm not sure how that came about, is it some reference to the constellation of The Plough?

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I think so, Martin, but on the dodgy evidence that the Seven Stars pub in St Helens has The Plough painted on its pub sign![:o)]

[William R]

A bit of useless information - used to drink in the Ship on Saturday night but avoid the Seven Stars next door. Don`t know why.This thread set me looking in the Sheffield Area Yellow Pages, this being a Steel making and Coal Mining area. There are 9 Plough Inn, 0 Seven Stars,2 White Rose (this in Yorkshire) 7 Ship Inn, 8 Miners Arms, 1 Steel Melters Arms, 1 Yorkshireman, 1 Yorkshire Terrier. All from a total of 1500 pubs, all in Yorkshire. We only have 2 Eagle and Child. There are some odd ones too - Crinoline Bridge,Fitzooth and Firkin, Hammer and Pincers, Old Grindstone, The Parish Oven to name but a few. What about the Boy and Barrel, the Brush and Easel, Tom Cobleighs Half Moon, Tom Treddlehoyle. Somebody look in Leyland Yellow Pages, you don`t know what you`ll find. Perhaps someone one day will do a piece on the origin of Pub names. From over the Pennines, Cheerio, Bill.

[Martin]

Has anyone counted the number of pubs in Leyland? I think there was about twenty the last time I had a go...

• The Hayrick
• Rose and Crown (Farrington)
• The Railway
• The Queens
• The Gables
• The Ship
• The George
• The Fox and Lion
• The Eagle and ChildThe RoebuckThe Seven StarsThe Old Original seven StarsBroadfield ArmsDunkirk HallThe WheatsheafWaggon & HorsesThe Black Bull The Leyland Tiger R.I.P.

Cab you think of any more

[Guest 01]

Wish I could remember the names of Pubs in the area but I do recall my uncle a Leyland man going to see a man about a dog and ending up at The Five Barred Gate or The Sitting Goose but I suspect these were further afield than The Seven Stars.He liked to wander.
One public house more towards you Noel was the one run by Pierrepoint, the Public Hangman-very popular place for charabang trips-on the Southport Rd???

[noel]

Yes I remember Pierrepoint, but not his public house. ( I was told it was a good place to hang out) The Sitting Goose is on "The Fylde" Quite posh in my courting days but impossible to go to to have an alcoholic drink now.

[Guest 01]

My husband took me to Pierrepoint's Pubs -I think perhaps two -one was Hang(or Pity?)the poor Struggler and the other-maybe- The Rose and Crown.All I can remember is the huge car park for the buses and a sign behind the bar-No Hanging Around This Bar.We stopped there on our way back from the Grand National at Aintree.
Actually it's so long ago sometimes I think I dream these things.
As you say pubs have gone upmarket now.I saw that when visiting last, but many especially in Preston were basically ordinary houses and very tiny.We lived almost next door to one in Church St, Preston-The Angel-very handy for a quick pint.
L

[David]

Lady G mentioned the Five Barred Gate. I wonder if she is referring to the 'old' Five Barred Gate that was on the New Blackburn Road, at the junction with the Whalley cut off ? A great pub in it's day, long gone now of course, demolished a long time ago, and rebuilt as a hotel and spa...the Trafalgar, if my memory serves me well ??
I remember lining up outside the Five Barred Gate, in the snow, waiting for it to open on a Sunday night. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....[8D][8D][8D]

[David]

Taking too much room up. [8D]