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Yew Tree Inn
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Picture source: Phil Simpson |
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The Yew Tree Inn was situated at
1 Beardwood. |
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Source: Max Taylor |
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This pub was closed in 1971 and demolished in 1984. |
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Phil Simpson |
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According to the UK census of 1881, my great-great grandfather Thomas Parker
was the operator of this pub. Other than in 1881, we do not know when he
operated the Yew Tree Inn or how he came to be the publican. Although
difficult to read, the address of the Yew Tree in 1881 appears to have been
13 Beardwood Preston New Road in Blackburn. |
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John Morrissey (August 2011) |
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The Yew Tree Inn at Beardwood was a farmhouse
before becoming a pub full time later in the nineteenth century. My father
drank there in the early 1970s shortly after we moved to Blackburn, and it
attracted a clientele from the few houses around there. I think it retained
the layout of a private house with small rooms, rather like (at that time)
the Quarryman’s Arms on Duke’s Brow the other side of Revidge . The Yew Tree
closed to become the staff accommodation of the Saxon Inn Motel built behind
it in 1972, but its stone sign was kept at the farmhouse over the road at
Toad Hole. |
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Matt Cole (July 2013) |
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used to go in here lunchtimes in
1970-71. Sixth formers at QEGS! Misspent youth. They had a bar billiards
table in the little room on the right as you went in. Only bar billiards
table I ever saw in Blackburn. Happy days. Knock them mushrooms down. Yeh. |
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Michel Fisher (May 2020) |
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