Oldham Public Houses A snap shot of the past Lamb Inn: 16 Market Place The first licence for this public house was issued in 1763, at this time this area of Oldham was totally different from today. There was no market place as such, that was to come later, and it was the home of a timber yard, Constables' lock-up and the main road through Oldham. So it was a perfect place to serve the travellers passing through Oldham, either going to Manchester or Huddersfield so much so there was a public house next door called White Bear. In this pre heavy industrialisation of Oldham the area was a rural agricultural community. Roads were not much better than unpaved tracks that were rutted and frozen in winter, and mud baths in summer; it was not to improve until the 1790s when the road was turnpike. Landlords 1784-1810………Samuel Horrocks 1810-1829……….Jane Horrocks 1834-1861………..James Buckley 1864-1871………...William Clegg 1871-1875………...Charles Buckley *see below 1875-1880………...John Whitehead 1884-1891…………Walter Potts 1894-1895…………George Harrison 1902-1909…………John Austerberry 1909-1911…………Sarah Austerberry 1911-1922…………Thomas Bates The site went on to be a shop; 1923-Confectioners; J.P.Whitehead 1934-Hosier; Herbert Winn 1957-Furniture dealer; George Fleet 1983-Provincial Building Society 2011-Lloyds Bank *The census for 1871 shows the Lamb Inn as home for the following; Charles William Buckley; aged 29 Bibliography A Directory of Oldham Pubs…………by Rob Magee Manchester and the Textile Districts in 1849………………………. By Angus Bethune Reach by John Beever |
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