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The Blue Anchor was situated on St George's Quay. This grade-II listed pub was present by 1836 when the publican was Leonard Miller.

In the late 1950`s this was a Yates & Jacksons Brewery pub, publicans Jack and Annie Wadsworth. Freshly caught cockles on the bar on darts nights, most of the regulars drank mild then in glasses with your own number on.

Bill Redmayne (January 2012)

I was told by my grandmother that her father and grandfather used to run this pub in about 1880.  Their names were Anthony and John Hoyle

Barbara Barsee (March 2012)

Annie Wadsworth was my grandmother, her and grandad ran the pub for years, I remember sitting on the bar to sing for the customers, many happy memories. Remember them delivering barrels of beer from Yates and jack sons.

Ann Bee, nee Wadsworth (December 2016)

Listed building details:

House, now shops and an annexe to the Blue Anchor Public House (qv) c1700, restored 1990. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with a gable stack to the right. 3 storeys above a cellar and 4 bays, with a rear wing forming an L-shaped plan. The ground floor has timber shop fronts of 1990. On the first floor are rebated and chamfered cross windows, and on the second floor 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows. All date from 1990, but are accurate replicas of the original windows, based on fragments of stonework found when the render was removed from the wall. The rear wing to the right gives on to Lawson's Yard, which now has a glazed roof; it is approached through a doorway to the left of the shop fronts. Bays 1-4 formed a separate house with the original doorway in bay 3, now a window, and replaced by a doorway in bay 2. Bays 5-7 were the rear wing of the house on Market Street which had a back door in bay 5, now a window. All the doorways and windows on the ground and first floors have moulded architraves. The second-floor windows have 2 lights with chamfered jambs and mullions and, in some cases, diamond fixed lights. INTERIOR: the house on Market Street has in its rear wing an open-well staircase with closed and panelled strings, fluted square newel posts with straight handrails of heavy cross-section (cf No.44 Church Street (qv)) supported by 2 fluted balusters per tread. The house on Lawson's Yard has a closed-string staircase running parallel to the yard in single flights with 2 fluted balusters per tread. This pair of houses is the unique survivor of what must have been a fairly common type in Georgian Lancaster; as such they are important both to the history and the townscape.

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