The smallest of Oldham Street's Yates's Wine Lodges, this one is now the jazz club, Matt & Phreds (opens 9pm; charges at weekends). Like most of the pubs and bars on this side of the street, it has another entrance on Tib Street behind. Back in the day the old Yates's butcher's and teetetal tavern occupied 77 to 83 Oldham Street, and this photo from the early 1900s is likely to be the Yates's in question, on the right.
This was where they did soup and bread for the dossers from nearby hostels [1]. Quite fitting that it ended up serving dossers years later - harder stuff this time, definitely not teetotal - in this grim Yates's Wine Lodge. It was also PJ Bells and Kaleida in the 1990s and early '00s.
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Matt & Phreds, Oldham Street / Tib Street. (c) touchmanchester and insitumanchester.
1. Ancoats Lad, Mick Burke & Frank Heaton (1996).
When did Elsie leave - the Landlady in the mid-1970s?
ReplyDeleteI used to visit the tavern with my Grandmother and have pea soup and crusty bread. Never realised it was for "dossers".
ReplyDeleteOh Grandma how could you?😮
I used to visit the tavern with my Grandmother and have pea soup and crusty bread. Never realised it was for "dossers".
ReplyDeleteOh Grandma how could you?😮
There was also a teetotal tavern behind a big Yates's in Oldham. I was doing an ONC course on day release in 1965 and used to go in there for a bowl of soup and crust. It was very cheap I think it only cost a shilling.
ReplyDeleteThe other guys on the course rescued me and then I ended up at the UCP restaurant near the Parish Church which was much more salubrious