The
Concert Tavern was located on Churchgate on the site of what is now Churchgate
House.
The
pub dated back to the 1850s and by the end of that decade it was being run by
Thomas Worsley. Thomas was born in 1812. He married Charlotte Howarth at Deane
church in 1833 and by 1841 the couple were living in Bark Street where Thomas
was employed as a cotton spinner. The family were in Halliwell by 1851. The
1861 census shows that Thomas was working as a cotton spinner as well as being
a beer seller at the Concert Tavern, though it may well have been that
Charlotte was running the pub.
Charlotte
Worsley died in 1868, but in October of that year Thomas married again, this
time to Nancy Dowling, a widow from Blackburn Street who was 11 years his
junior.
By
1871, the Worsleys were still at the Concert Tavern. However, they are listed
as lodgers with Thomas working as a chimney sweep. The house was owned by
another resident, the 23-year-old Louise Waring. Thomas died the following year
and the running of the pub was taken on by John Helm.
The
Concert Tavern was owned by the Bolton brewery of Atkinson’s in the 1890s. It
was later bought by Bolton Theatre and Entertainment Company Ltd who leased it
to Tong’s who supplied the pub. But Bolton Theatre and Entertainment owned the
nearby Grand Theatre which they opened in 1894.
In 1908, they closed the
Concert Tavern and incorporated the pub into an extension to the Grand. The
final landlord was Ethelred Black who had been at the Town Hall Tavern in 1901.
The
theatre was demolished in 1963 and Churchgate House was built on the site. See the August 2015 image below (copyright Google Street View).
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