Preston Pubs (8): City Centre

 For the purposes of this, I consider the city centre to be north of Fishergate and south of the ringroad. I appreciate Fishergate is pretty central, but it will probably gets a page on its own.

We will start on a high! The Black Horse is an excellent, old-fashioned pub that I thoroughly recommend to any visitor to Preston.



It is an attractive pub inside and out, with good beer too. Built (or rebuilt) in 1898.

The Farms Arms Hotel, more recently the Jolly Farmer was an impressive building in Market Street,



A image from ca. 1980 here. It looks like this building replaced an earlier structure seen here.

The Market Tavern is another good pub that is still open. Just north of the Jolly Farmer, on Market Street, but because of how Market Street got bisected for the ring road, it is now rather tucked away and easy to miss. 


Definitely worth a visit though!

Still on Market Street, and in fact the other end of the building to the Jolly Farmer was the George Hotel.

You can see what it used to look like here. This was recently a bookie, though a map from 1938 suggests it was at that point a bank. I think it is currently unused.

The Stanley Arms stands at the north end of a fine row of buildings on Lancaster Road.


Big on Northern Soul - which I am not, but I suppose some people like it.

The Golden Cross Hotel is further up Lancaster Road.


It is still open, but I do not recall ever venturing inside. Looks like this building replaced an earlier one in 1861.

Even further up Lancaster Road, is the Black a Moor Head.


Pretty sure I have been in this one a couple of times, but I cannot remember it - that is a reflection on me, not the pub... The back wall is a giant mural.



The Tithebarn stands delict, an eye in front of the bus station; it closed 2016, having closed a couple of times previously.


Formerly the Waggon and Horses, as can be seen here in a photo from 1961. The original bus station was just south of here, and it is possible horse drawn services once left from here, giving it its name. The later name is due to it being on Tithe Barn Street. A article here about the building to the left, , which was originally Lord Street Cotton Mill, has some more photos.








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