The Duckworth Arms, 416 Whalley Road, Shuttleworth.

1838 Pigot Manchester & District Directory – Lawrence Duckworth, Victualler, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1841 Pigot & Slater Directory - Lawrence Duckworth, Victualler, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1848 Slater’s Directory – Lawrence Duckworth, Duckworth’s Arms. Shuttleworth.
1850 Heap’s Directory – Richard Wild, Duckworth’s Arms, Brownbent.
1853 Whelan & Co Directory Manchester & Salford - Richard Wild, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1854 Directory of Mid-Lancashire - Isaac Wilson, Duckworth's Arms, Brown Bent, Shuttleworth.
1861 Drake Directory - Isaac Wilson, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1871 Worral's Directory - Peter Hill, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1880 Barratt's Directory - Peter Hill, Victualler, Duckworth's Arms, Shuttleworth.
1880 – Death of Peter Hill (59) registered in Walmersley.
1883 Barratt's Directory - John Nuttall, Victualler, Duckworth's Arms, Walmersley-with-Shuttleworth.
1888 Slater's Directory - Thomas Hoyle, Duckworth's Arms, Brownbent, Shuttleworth.
Duckworth Arms, Brown Bent, Shuttleworth, a tied house owned by Crown Brewing Co. Ltd., Rochdale Road, Bury. Registered January 1861 as Bury Co-operative Brewing & Distilling Co. Ltd. Name changed 1866. Acquired by Dutton’s Blackburn Brewery Ltd., 1959 with 127 public houses and brewing ceased.
1945 - Mr. George Edward Perkins was Landlord for 7 years after the 2nd World War.
1950s - Advert for Duckworth Arms Hotel, A Crown House, Proprietor Mr. G. Perkins. Whalley Road, Shuttleworth.
1957 Guide to Ramsbottom – “Hotels (with Catering Facilities): Duckworth Arms, Whalley Road, Shuttleworth. Tel 3336. Licensing Hours: 11.30 to 3 p.m. ; 5.30 to 10.30 p.m. ; Sunday, 12 to 2, 7 to 10 p.m.”
Duckworth Arms, Whalley Road - Tied House owned by J W Lees & Co. (Brewers) Ltd, Greengate Brewery, Lees Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester. Founded by John Lees at Middleton Junction in 1828. The brewhouse was rebuilt about 50 years later. Registered in 1936 to acquire J W Lees & Co. Reconstructed company registered November 1955.
2020/2021 - Closed for most of the year because of the Covid Pandemic.
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