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The Bell Inn was situated on Swan Street. This Oldham Brewery pub closed in 1949.

From the Manchester Evening News, 17th June 1897

James R Hilton, landlord of the Bell Inn, Swan Street, Oldham, was today fined £20 and costs for bookmaking, and James Lees, clerk, £10 and costs for aiding and abetting. Detectives walked in last night and captured papers showing 400 bets. Hilton had £100 in his possession, half of which he said related to betting. Both prisoners pleaded guilty. Lees had been previously convicted of a similar offence.

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