(Paddlesworth)

Believed photograph is in the late 1800's outside the RED LION INN, PADDLESWORTH. L to R Back Row:- Argur, F Godden, Tom Laws, H Finch, William Gammon L to R Front Row:- R Mount, William Hogben, William Cross, G Baker.

The following passage has been taken from their web site:-

Is there any other place where, in order to enter a church, one may first have to enter the adjoining public house? If the church at Paddlesworth is locked, the key may be obtained from the "Red Lion" a few yards away where it hangs on a board beneath an appropriate jingle. In fact the public house is generally known as "The Cat".

On the left of this passage is shown the famous key.

This pub, at some time during its life changed names to the "Cat and Custard Pot", but was referred to as the "Old Red Lion" in Bagshaw Directory of 1847. I wonder whether this was built on the foundations of another "Red Lion?" Either that or it indicates that the pub is very old indeed.

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