I often get asked this question so here is my standard response:
There is no legal coat-of-arms for the Phethean family. There has been a hand-drawn one that someone showed me many years ago but it is a contrivance and I refuse to depict it as it is thoroughly misleading, and in the UK would be illegal to display.
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The developers have withdrawn the planning app relating to the pub and they will be re-submitting another one for just the housing behind it. Not sure what the fate of the pub is now. Lets hope that the campaign to save it results in listed-building status.
Read previous post regarding the history of the “H&H”.
Classic archive footage of Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah.
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There has been a planning application made to demolish the “Old Hare and Hounds” pub in Breightmet, Bolton. Local residents have been campaigning to save it but it has been empty since 2008 so it does not seem to have much of a chance for survival.
The “Old H & H” has been a key focal point in Breightmet since the 1700s and two generations of my family were landlords from about 1770. It is strange in this day and age to see that the sale of spirits was of course expressly forbidden : Continue reading
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