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Friday 8 April 2011

Van Tavern, Arthur Street


Van Tavern, Arthur Street (right). (c) Alan Godrey Maps [1].

The Van Tavern was on Arthur Street, a short road off Chester Road, just north-east of Great Jackson Street at the very start of Deansgate.  It's listed on the 1848 map but is gone by the 1920 Ordnance Survey, so must have been named after the caravan, rather than the van.  It gets a mention in the 27 September 1850 edition of the London Gazette:

Van Tavern, Arthur Street, Hulme. (c) www.london-gazette.co.uk.

The Van Tavern was half way down Arthur Street on the right, and going off today's map, this was in the centre of the patch of waste ground shown in the centre right (the unmarked road going south off Deansgate is Owen Street; Arthur Street was between this and Great Jackson Street), not far from Choice Bar & Restaurant and Lava Café Bar:

Former location of Van Tavern, Arthur Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. Castlefield 1848, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).

1 comment:

  1. My great-grandfather, William Bleackley, was the publican at the Van Tavern at 10 Arthur Street in 1905-1907. My father was born in the hotel part of the Van Tavern in 1906.
    William Bleackley was a career publican in Bolton from 1882 until his death in 1913. He was the licensee for several : Bird i'th Hand in Kearsley (circa 1885); Bowling Green Inn, 140 Blackburn Road (circa 1u90+); unnamed pub at 26 Bury Old Road (1900-1905); Van Tavern, 10 Arthur Street (1906-1909/10); Windsor Castle, 37 Halliwell Road (1910-1913).
    Would you have any information on these pubs, or have any records of William Bleackley?

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