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Bob Dobson · 29-11-2009, 19:06

A posting about the Alma, Bash mentions The Blockade, King Street. and suggests that it was Crimean war-related.The Crimean war was in 1850s. I have not looked up the relevant dates, but I was under the impression that it was named after a famous incident involving two railway companies near Manchester (Middleton?) about 1840 in the course of which a blockade of the lines occurred.The close proximity to the railway may have brought about this suggestion. This pub was owned by Bentley's Brewery of Milnshaw Lane, and was sold with the others in their empire, to John Smith's in 1924

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Bob Dobson Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staining, Blackpool Posts: 3,096 Liked: 407 times Rep Power: 158676	Re: Pubs in old & new acc A posting about the Alma, Bash mentions The Blockade, King Street. and suggests that it was Crimean war-related.The Crimean war was in 1850s. I have not looked up the relevant dates, but I was under the impression that it was named after a famous incident involving two railway companies near Manchester (Middleton?) about 1840 in the course of which a blockade of the lines occurred.The close proximity to the railway may have brought about this suggestion. This pub was owned by Bentley's Brewery of Milnshaw Lane, and was sold with the others in their empire, to John Smith's in 1924