Rose and Crown Inn
This was on Stricklandgate between what was the Gazette Office (now Lakeland clothes shop) and where New Look clothes shop is now), approximately where the entrance to Wainwrights Yard is now.
"The name of this almost forgotten inn, which displayed a pictorial signboard representing a rose and crown, was probably meant as a tribute to the Lancastrians. It is a building of considerable antiquity, and still has in its attic a most splendid example of heavy oak framing, which is today in perfect preservation. On the second floor there were traces left of the elaborate cornices that once ornamented the dancing salon.The main floor of the inn, approached as was usual from the entry, has now been entirely taken down so as to give height to the shop beneath, which was formerly divided by a partition into two very small and low shops, where a clogger and a hosier had their places of business (see illustration). A shearman's farthing, issued in 1666, was found here when some workmen were engaged in altering one of the walls.
The first note that I have of the inn is that it was kept by Mrs Bryers in 1756, and my last note is that soon after January, 1876, the property fell into the hands of the Lancaster Bank, from whom it was bought by Messrs.H. Waddington & Co., who at once gave notice to the tenant that the license would not again be applied for. This did the "Rose and Crown" cease to exist as a public house on August the 25th, 1876."
"Kirkbie Kendall", John F. CUrwen, 1900
