Buildings of Interest

Description

1904 rebuilding by Messrs Greenall Whitley & Co of an earlier Harrow Inn/Hotel.

Thomas Ball, collier, of Edge Green, is the first recorded licensee at the Harrow in 1859.  On 28 December 1901, The Manchester Courier & Lancashire General Advertiser reported the dismissal of a charge of “permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises” brought against “John Marsh of the Harrow Inn, Edge Green-road, Ashton”

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