Hargreaves Arms - got a new name
 

We are loosing another well known pub name - a new sign appeared over the door - now to be called Grant's Bar. Due to open approx. 12th Dec 2009

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I seem to remember they changed the name a few years ago, and then changed it back again to the Hargreaves Arms. I can't remember what name they changed it to.

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It was an Irish sounding name Bernard, but like yourself can't remember what it was, something like Garities. Anyway why can't the leave things alone, it only ends up with people still calling pubs by their old name anyway, to me the Hargreaves Arms will always be just that:(

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yeah just like they now call shifters boots its a blooming disgrace lol


well ok boots is technicaly where unit 4 stood but part of boots is where the entrance to shifters was

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yeh like they called the Pickwick, Shifters.:rolleyes:

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Glad you cleared that point - I thought it was off topic - boots/trainers/shifters

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They changed the name to Mighty Mulldoons a few years ago !!
ian

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Think all pubs going back to before 1939 should have some sort of "preservation order" on them to keep the original name , not bothered if the pub is 'done-up' or altered but keep the original as a bit of historical heritage .

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i suppose in todays climate and how teh govenment is determined to close every pub in teh UK we shoudl think ourselves lucky its a new sign and not a for sale one

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Maybe it's only part of the pub which is going to be 'Grant's Bar' .. lots of public houses do this.

Hey, and where is the apostrophe after Grant then ? A whole different meaning.:)

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Never could understand why they changed the Cemetery pub name to the Whittakers a few years ago.

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yup with it been directly accross from the cemetary it was the perfect name,probably some retard pencil pushing dimwit got a say in the matter or somat

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The Cemetery Arms was called the Whitaker's Arms before it was the Cemetery. The pub was there before the cemetery opened (1864) The Whitakers were a wealthy Altham/Huncoat family.
The Imperial on Blackburn Rd was formerly the Albion. There are several early examples of name changes.It has been suggested to me that the Blockade was previously the Havelock. Retlaw thinks that The Railway was previously the Spread Eagle.The Broadway was previously the Peel Arms

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Soz Katex (and everybody), hadnt realised what I had done there. You are right, it of course just says GRANTS Bar