The Angel Inn
The Deerplay Inn
The George & Dragon
The Buck Inn
The Irwell Inn
The Waterloo Hotel
A small selection of the many pubs Click thumbnail to enlarge
The Crown
The New Inn
Joiners Arms
The Waterworks Inn
Park Hotel
Dog & Partridge
As you enter the premises of The Bacup Natural History Society & Museum, the keen eyed visitor
will notice the tiled floor which announces you are entering what was once the Hare & Hounds
Public House.
Within 100 yards of the Hare & Hounds there were a further 10 licensed premises, 20 within 200
yards and 32 within 440 yards. With that in mind it is hardly surprising reports like the following
appeared in the local newspaper.
On Sunday the 18th April a number of these savages called at a farmhouse in the neighbourhood
and asked to be supplied with a quart of milk. The good woman brought them the milk, but before
she handed it over to them asked who was to pay for it. The answer was to have the jug wrenched
from her hands the milk consumed and the jug thrown to the floor and smashed.
Their path next lay through some fields where they passed a young man returning from Sunday school , and as they passed him they
tripped him up, causing him to fall heavily on the ground. A little further they met another man who was also returning from a place of
worship, and whom they attempted to molest in a similar way. Failing to trip him up they struck him in the face. This assault however was
witnessed by Mr James Munn J.P. and Mr Robert Munn who remonstrated with the blackguards. No sooner did he interfere but was
knocked down. Mr Robert Munn was also assaulted but this did not stop him capturing one of his cowardly assailants. He was brought
before the Magistrate and sentenced to a month in the house of correction for a month. The men, it is stated were all intoxicated”.
1878.
On Saturday evening some very serious disturbances (caused in every instance) by Irish people arose at several public houses in the town.
Some ruffianly Irish navvies went into the Market Hotel, set upon a young man (an Englishman, of course) knocked him down, and kicked
him about his face seriously, and tore the coat off his back. They succeeded in making their escape before the police could be called in.
At the Queens' Hotel, several people were assaulted by Mrs Murphy and her son (the latter a powerfully built brick maker) in the tap room
with pots and a fender.
Another gang went into the Golden Lion and gave the landlady a couple of black eyes, without the slightest provocation.