Wigan Album
OLD DOG, MARKET PLACE
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Photo: Keith
Item #: 35662
1901 Census All Saints Ward - Market Place, Old Dog Inn - Hannah Jolley, 40, Widow, Licensed Victualler Born Tavistock, Devon. Everyone else was born in Wigan. They were, Elizabeth Jolley, daughter 19, Barmaid, Gilbert Jolley, son 12, Annie Jolley 9, Elizabeth Smith 27, General Servant Domestic.
If this was the old, Old Dog I wonder if there was another previous one or would this one be the one when Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through Wigan.
Veronica, I think that was THE DOG Inn?
It must have been a tribute then Ron to the Dog Inn… keeping the name going. ;>))
Veronica The DOG INN was on the opposite side of the road. You can make out the sign on an early image of the Market Place. Somewhere on the site?
In 1797 two pubs were listed as The Dog - one where John Moore was the tenant and the other was James Roper's pub. The Old Dog originally had its own brewery but was taken over by Oldfields before 1872, becoming a Walkers pub in 1926. The Old Dog Music Hall was attached from the 1880s to the 1910s. Gilbert Jolley became the licensee around 1892 and his wife Hannah ran it until at least 1914
One old dog was about 30 yards from the top of mill gate i think the other was in mill gate opposite the ship hotel in millgate but have never met anyone who remembers this