AN 18th century coaching inn has become the latest to feel the pinch among the licensed trade in Hyndburn.
Bosses at Enterprise Inns have temporarily shut the Roebuck Inn on High Street, Rishton, while new publicans can be secured.
The pub can trace its roots back to 1753, when it was constructed by Henry Petre and originally used as a farmstead.
Not long afterwards the first licensee, William Duckworth, opened it as an alehouse for traders travelling from Blackburn to Accrington and Burnley.
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