Hales Bar, Crescent Rd, Harrogate, N Yorks, UK
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bill&ben
N 53° 59.641 W 001° 32.776
30U E 595302 N 5983834
A plaque by the entrance to Hales Bar giving a history of the establishment
Waymark Code: WMT85P
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/13/2016
Views: 1
Originally known as the Promenade Inn, the tenant was Joseph Hogg. In 1840 Thomas Humble Walker took over the licence of the Promenade Inn. During the 1840s Walker extended the Inn, naming the Inn after the tenant landlord, Hodgson. In 1882 William Hale acquired the Inn and named it Hale’s Bar.
The plaque reads
HALE'S BAR
Inns were established near the world's strongest sulphur well by the 1660 s and the antiquity of Hale's Bar is shown by its cellars, as such excavations were prohibited by an Act of 1770. The Inn would have been known to Tobias Smollett who in 1766 visited Harrogate in which he set part of his novel 'Humphrey Clinker'. It was a lively coaching inn, with coaches such as 'The Courier', 'Tally Ho!' and 'Teazle' arriving and departing. Known as the 'Promenade Inn' after the opening of the nearby Promenade Room in 1806, it changed it's name to 'Hodgson's' (c.1849) before adopting the name of it's new landlord, William Hale, in about 1882. Enlarged to the east in 1856, the inn was a favourite with Sir John Barbirolli who visited Harrogate each summer with the Halle Orchestra throughout the 1950's and 1960's. Hale's Bar still retains its gas-lit, early Victorian interior, used in 1980 for publicity shots for the film 'Chariots of Fire' 1997
Type of Historic Marker: Plaque
Historical Marker Issuing Authority: Harrogate Civic Society
Age/Event Date: 01/01/1977
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