The
Peacock Inn on Kay Street dated back to the 1840s. William Fletcher is listed
as the licensee on the 1849 listing of Little Bolton beerhouses. Fletcher was a
blacksmith according to the 1841 census and was already living on Kay Street. It
may well have been that, like so many beerhouses that sprang up at the time, he
converted one room of his dwelling into licensed premises.
William
Fletcher ran the Peacock until around 1870 when the pub was taken over by his
son James. However, James lasted only a few years and by 1876 the Peacock was
being run by Samuel Davenport, formerly a cooper in nearby Charles Street.
By
1891 the pub was in the hands of Thomas Witter, formerly the landlord of the
Nightingale on Lever Street. When he died in 1891 the pub was bought by the
Bolton brewery of J Atkinson and Sons in the 1890s. Atkinson’s were bought out
by Boardman’s United Breweries in 1895 and it became a Cornbrook pub when they
took over Boardman’s in 1898.
The
Peacock closed in 1911. By 1924 it was a common lodging house run by Mrs Annie
King. The building was demolished when Kay Street was widened in 1959. The St
Peters Way extension (built 1987) now occupies the site.
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