Lancs & Yorks, Bamber Bridge
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Lancs & Yorks, Bamber Bridge
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 25 Feb 2012
The Lancs & Yorks public house on Station Road, next to the level crossing. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Hotel first opened in the 1850s, probably gaining custom from the newly opened railway. It could have been called “Railway Hotel” or “Station Hotel” but instead it was named after the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the company that ran the lines in this area at that time. I don’t know when the name was shortened to “Lancs & Yorks” but it was still listed as “the Lancashire and Yorkshire Hotel” in the Barratt’s Directory of 1917.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.726867
Longitude
-2.66032