The
new Great Moor Street station pictured here in 1930. It opened in September
1874 and its construction necessitated the demolition of the Queen Elizabeth.
The
Queen Elizabeth was situated on Blackhorse Street on part of the site of what
is now Morrisons supermarket.
The
pub dated back to the 1830s and was owned for a number of years by the Holt
family. William Holt is listed as the landlord on the 1836 Bolton Directory and
he was still at the pub according to the 1841 Census along with his wife Fanny.
By 1848, Elizabeth Holt was the licensee.
In
these early days the pub was known as the Bee Hive, but by 1853 it was known as
the Queen Elizabeth – possibly in deference to its landlady!
Elizabeth
Holt was succeeded by John Hawksworth and it was under Mr Hawksworth’s tenure
that the Queen Elizabeth closed. The London and North Western Railway wanted to
expand the railway station at Great Moor Street and needed to demolish the pub
to make way for the new station. John Hawksworth died in 1873 and the
Queen Elizabeth closed shortly afterwards. The licence was transferred to the
refreshment room at the expanded station in August 1874 and the new station opened the following month. The licence was
refused in 1880.
The
site of Great Moor Street station in August 2015 (copyright Google Street
View).
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