Rocket, Warwick Road
These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
1864 | 1944 | Railway Refreshment Rooms | |
1879 | 1964 | Railway Hotel | |
1964 | 2014 | Rocket | |
![]() What might be the only copy of this photo in existence, and possibly the earliest ever view of the Railway
Previously the RAILWAY HOTEL, in April 1964 the city's justices gave permission for the name to be changed to The Rocket.
Refreshment Rooms and the goods yard from around 1860, and the Bull Fields which pre-date the railway. ![]() George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) was an English engineer. In 1814 he constructed a travelling steam engine and in October 1829 his most famous locomotive, the Rocket, was the winner of the Rainhill Trials and hence his idea was adopted for use by the Manchester to Liverpool Railway. | |||
LICENSEES:1983 Matthew Moten 1988 - 1991 Bill Ross | |||
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