The 'Ivy House' public house 
on the junction between Ivy House and
Bucknall New Road

Diagonally opposite the 'Ivy House' public house - an old horse trough. Note the fountain on the side for human use.

The reason for the drinking trough was that this was the site of the Ivy House Toll Gate. This stood until the 1870's. There was one at the Junction of Keelings lane at Upper Green in 1820 and one to the South West a the junction of Hulton Street and Town Road

'To Man and Beast All Akin'
'G. Wedgwood. 1879'

 
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