A
short-lived pub on Bradshawgate, the first evidence we have of the Railway
Tavern is on the 1849 list of Bolton beer houses when Edmund Harwood was the
licensee.
It seems the business’s days as a beerhouse were limited even then.
It didn’t appear in the 1848 Bolton directory and by the time of the 1851
census Edmund Harwood is listed as a confectioner. It seems likely that the pub
had closed and Mr Harwood and his wife Ann were now selling sweets.
By
1861, the premises were numbered 60 Bradshawgate, which puts it somewhere near
to where the Pack Horse was. Edmund is a provision dealer and confectioner and
lives with a servant and three lodgers.
Edmund
Harwood died in 1864.
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