Farmers Arms, Great Eccleston. Lancashire.

iBase ID

286775

Reference identifier

SEC20221020030

Title

Farmers Arms, Great Eccleston. Lancashire.

Place

Eccleston

Personal names

Phyllis Davis

General notes

Away from the bustle of The Square and Main Street, the Farmers' Arms stands in Halsall Square. The pub has been refurbished in recent times. The former homebrew house now has a restaurant. In the Edwardian period the Farmers' Arms Inn was operated by the Hilton Brewery of Chorley. The pub still only had a beer house licence at this time. The house was fully licensed when the freehold was offered for sale in October 1919. The closure of the Bowling Green Inn in 1907 may have played a part in this upgrade in status. The sale notice for the Farmers' Arms Inn stated that the property contained a large parlour, farmer's room with bar parlour, kitchen, pantry, large dining room upstairs, two cellars, bathroom, five bedrooms and a box room. The outbuildings comprised a six-stall stable, two loose boxes, one double loose box, wash house, coal house, store room and piggeries. There was also a large yard and garden. There was a tragedy at the Farmers' Arms in 1985 when the elderly landlady, Phyllis Davies, known to locals as Aunty Phyllis, was stabbed during a robbery. She sadly died from her injuries.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Locator

Miriam Wadge Collection

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