IT would seem many of you could remember the Who Could A Thowt It’ public house, which used to serve the locals of Grimshaw Park in Blackburn.
One who contacted us was Brian Greenwood, who recalled that his uncle, George Greenwood and his sister Annie Thompson, once ran it.
“Uncle George was there for 44 years. He took over the pub, in 1916, with his mother and continued behind the bar after she died in 1943.
“1916 would be around the time when ‘The Thowt It’ got its name.
“The clogger, who started it all, used to have his works on Grimshaw Park and there were two terraced houses next door — that’s when Matthew Brown Lion Ales took over and gave the pub its name.”
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