This photo shows the Whitsuntide walk down Wakefield Road from St Matthew's Church, passing the Sun Inn in 1921.
The Sun Inn public house, situated on Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe, circa 1907, began it's life as a farm during the early 1700's and as known as "Mortimer's Farm". It was a tenanted farm from the Walker family of the nearby Crow Nest Estate.
The change from farm to Inn probably coincided with Wakefield Road becoming a Turnpike Road in 1741 although there is a date stone on the front of the building showing 1730.
This photo shows the then licensee Mr Harry Leach, who kept the Inn from about 1904-1910, standing on the left wearing the Derby hat, with some of his customers about to set off for a day trip.
Once the Turnpike Road was started, The Sun Inn became a Coaching Inn and stop-off point for many travellers, particularly on the Burnley to Wakefield Route, when it would be used in the same way as we use motorway services today.
For many years The Sun Inn was the Head Quarters for the Lightcliffe Gun Club, and catered for local knurr and spell competitions as well as visitors to see Sir Alan Cobham's Air Show that performed in a nearby field.
