The
New Bridge Inn was originally known as the Printers Arms. It was
situated on the left-hand side going down Churchbank close to where
it becomes Churchgate.
There
is no mention of the pub in any directories from the 1850s and the
first mention we have is in 1869 when it was being run by Wilson
Inman.
By
1871, John Butterworth was in charge. Born in 1832, Mr Butterworth
was a cotton operative in Simpson Street in 1861.
The
1876 Bolton Directory shows Thomas Derbyshire as the landlord. At
that time it was still known as the Printers Arms, possibly as a nod to
the vocation of a former landlord.
The landlady in 1895 was Mary Ann
Witter. She had taken over the pub with her husband Thomas a couple
of years previously having run the Peacock on Kay Street for a while.
By this time it had been named the New Bridge Inn presumably to
commemorate the rebuilding of the bridge on Churchbank that ran over
the River Croal. The pub was the last building before the bridge.
The
New Bridge was owned by Wingfield’s Silverwell Brewery whose
brewery premises stood on Nelson Square. Wingfield’s later became
part of the Manchester Brewery Company who wanted to rebuild another
of their pubs, the Crofters Arms on St George’s Road. In what
became a confusing deal the Crofters was sold to Bolton Council who
then sold it on to Magee, Marshall and Co. But the council would only
give planning permission to Magee's for the rebuilding of the
Crofter's if the licence of the New Bridge was given up. The
confusing aspect is that the New Bridge was still a Manchester
Brewery pub. Nevertheless, the Crofters was re-built and the New
Bridge closed in 1907. The final landlord was George Jackson, a
Yorkshireman who was originally a saddler by trade.
The
building subsequently became a boarding house. It was demolished in
the sixties along with three other properties along that row.
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