Shore Inn (Mumps, OLDHAM)

Glass plate showing Shore Inn c.1900.

The Shore Inn was situated at 5 Cross Street close to the junction with Huddersfield Road. It was first licenced in 1845 but by the 1890s the building was in a poor state of repair. Despite this JW Lees Brewery bought the inn just before 1900 but in 1905 under the new Compensation Act the Shore Inn closed. It briefly became a private residence and later became a boarding house ("doss house"). In 1966 the former Shore Inn was demolished along with its neighbours for road widening. The site of this former inn has been landscaped.