A children’s playground stands on the site of the
Boilermakers Arms on Phoenix Street. (Copyright Google Street View August
2015).
The
Boilermakers Arms was situated on Phoenix Street, a street that still exists
and which connects Folds Road with Turton Street.
The
first record of the pub is when Andrew Chadwick is listed as its licensee in
the 1871 Bolton directory. Mr Chadwick originated from Blackburn and was a yarn
dresser living in Woodside Place, Darcy Lever according to the 1861 census. By
1871 he was running the Boilermakers Arms along with his wife, Ellen. Two
daughters, aged 17 and 9 were with them along with a two-year-old grandson.
The
Boilermakers Arms took its name from the Phoenix Boiler Works, an engineering factory that appears on maps towards the end of the 20th
century. The factory was practically next door to the pub. As Phoenix Mill it later
dealt in cotton waste and the site of the mill still operates as a waste
recycling plant.
The
cutting below comes from the Bolton Evening News shortly before the Boilermakers
Arms closed in 1956. It notes that it was owned by the Crown Brewery of Bury.
Crown didn’t have a huge number of pubs in the town though the Man and Scythe
on Churchgate was one of them. Crown took the council’s offer of compensation
and the pub was demolished as part of a slum clearance plan along with many of
the surrounding streets. A children’s playground now stands on the site.
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