Mr Fitzpatrick’s was originally a chain of bars started by the Fitzpatrick family of Dublin, herbalists who had migrated to Lancashire. The last of the Fitzpatrick’s was Mr Malachi Fitzpatrick, who was gifted one of his father’s temperance bars as a wedding present and then went onto run the bar in Rawtenstall for over 50 years.
Malachi was a fine man and is remembered by the townsfolk as one of the last true, English gentlemen and is said to have not been ill during the last 50 years of his life, looking more like a 50 year old when he was actually 90!
We can only think that this could have been attributed to the medicinal qualities of the herbal concoctions that go into Mr Fitzpatrick’s cordials.