The Queen's Head is one of several Grade II listed public houses and Main Street buildings whose history stretches back through the centuries.

Built in the 1600s – when 'Frodsham Castle' manor house may still have been lording it over Castle Park and Frodsham's Thursday market was in its infancy - The Queens Head is said to be the oldest coaching inn in Frodsham.

Originally called The King's Head, the pub's name was changed when Queen Victoria acceded to the throne in 1837.

Back in the seventeenth century, the inn would have served as a stop-off for travellers heading by stagecoach to and from Chester, Warrington, Manchester and beyond, providing them with food, drink and a bed for the night before they continued on their way.

With richer customers sitting inside and poorer passengers clinging to the outside, stagecoaches travelled up and down the length and breadth of Britain at the stately pace of about five miles per hour, and would often stop to change horses after completing a 'stage' of 10 or 15 miles.

Coaching inns such as the then King's Head were by no means the comfortable pub we know today: in some busy establishments, guests may have had to share a flea-infested bed with strangers in order to get their head down for the night!

In a nod to its coaching inn history, The Queen's Head has retained its old stables and coach house, which can still be seen to the rear of the pub.

The front façade of pub was rebuilt, probably in the early 1800s, but the interior still retains some seventeenth-century moulded oak beams and plaster ceiling.

In the above picture, kindly provided by Frodsham and District History Society Archive, we see The Queen's Head as it was in the 1960s, seemingly before Les Harris Jewellers came on the scene a couple of doors down in 1969.

A lady with a pram looks into the Davidson's of Warrington window, which is now given over to Frodsham Foot Clinic, and a van advertising the historic Brookhirst Igranic company, part of which was based in Chester, sits in front.

60 years and a lot more traffic later, The Queen's Head and its neighbours look largely unchanged, and it is lovely to see customers enjoying a meal or drink in the pub's outdoor spaces once again!