The Station Hoetl today |
It is of the Station Hotel on Warrington Street, and there hidden for far too long is the name of Dutton’s Ales.
It is there to the left of the entrance
Now Thomas Dutton and his son founded the Salford Brewery on Bow Street in Blackburn in 1799.
The firm traded as Thomas Dutton and Co until 1884 it became Dutton & Co. Dutton’s Blackburn Brewery Ltd registered in Nov 1897 with 92 licensded houses at a purchase of £740,000.
The Station Hotel in 1986 |
Looking at earlier pictures of the Station sometime in the 1980s if not earlier our sign was hidden under a board which I suppose helped preserve the sign.
Pictures, the Station today from the collection of Mike Calverley and in 1986, Mr C. Makepeace, courtesy of Tameside Image Archive, t06607, http://www.tameside.gov.uk/history/archive.php3
* The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records
edited by Lesley Richmond, Alison Turton Manchester University Press 1990
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