Preston Pubs (10): Meadow Street and environs

Meadow Street starts at North Road (the A6) just north of the bus station and heads north east to Deepdale Lane. I only recently discovered the road, and have never ventured inside any of the pubs. It is a little community of shops I was unaware of, and looks to be doing well, even if most of the pubs are not.

To the north of the western end is the Syro-Malabar Cathedral of St Alphonsa.  This seems to be a sect of the Catholic church based in India. The building was, until 2016, St. Ignatius Church.

On the opposite side, and just slightly to the east, is what used to be the Clover. I am guess it has not been closed long. Looks like it is now accommodation.


Nearby was the Meadow Arms, later Mister Pickwicks, and now accommodation (this will be a repeated story).

[sorry no photo, but you can see it here]

A bit further down, this was the Fleece, and only closed in 2019 (and may have been the New fleece Inn).



Slightly off Meadow Street, previously at the north end of Egan Street, now in Shaw Street, this is the Stone Cottage Inn (also known as Chadwicks).



You can see what it used to look like here. Someone seems to have gone to some effort to remove all character from the building. Looks like it is now accommodation, which is actually its original purpose.

Back to Meadow Street, this is the Army and Navy.


It looks somewhat run down, but as far as I can tell it is still open.

A bit further along, and on the other side is the Royal Consort. This one looks rather more like it is open!

Across from the Prince Consort is Holstein Street, and where that meets East Street was the Stephen's Arms, which for a while was run by former England player Tommy Roberts, possibly as Churchills.


There is an old image of it here, before the single story extension to the left was added, and one here after it closed, before it was turned into accommodation.

The Edinburgh Castle was also in East Street, to the west. later known as the Red Rose Inn, and once more, it is now accommodation.

[sorry no photo, but you can see it here]

Returning to Egan Street, there was another castle, the Windsor Castle. You can see an image of it when open here - or so the web page claims. It has undergone some significant change, if that is right.

[sorry no photo, but you can see it here]

For completeness I will mention this building at the corner of Egan Street and St Paul's Square, which looks like an old pub (the Windsor was the building behind it). The plaque on the wall, between the first and second windows on the upper floor at the left, indicates this was the "Medical Association" and it was built 1888.



The Hyde Park Inn was on St Paul's Road, possibly the the corner with Astley Street (now Noor Street). It looks like nothing remains of it.





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