Morning Star (Werneth, OLDHAM)

The Morning Star in the 1980s.

The Morning Star was situated at 111 Featherstall Road in Werneth opposite what is now Prospect House. It opened as a beerhouse in 1854 and became a licenced public house in 1863. It became a Wilsons pub in 1904 and despite some modernisation in 1976 had virtually remained the same since the late 19th century. By the 1970s most of the surrounding housing had given way to industrial and commercial concerns and trade tapered off. It closed in 1988 and subsequently demolished.