Next door but across the triangle (for want of a better word) from the Two Cocks was the Sun at 245 Deansgate, run by Simeon Hilton in the 1840s [1]. Directly opposite the Dog & Partridge (so today it's easy to work out where it was - just stand outside Alliance & Leicester), the Sun had a small vault to the rear which was accessible by Dyer's Lane, a tiny street off the aforementioned triangular area [1].
1. Manchester (Oxford Street & Gaythorn), Alan Godfrey Maps (2010).
Shown as the Gladstone House on the 1891 OS map.
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