Red Admiral, Hulme Walk, Hulme. (c) Mick Pye.
The Red Admiral was built at the meeting of Stretford Road and Cavendish Street in 1973 [1] to serve the population of the first regenerated Hulme, and was a typical estate pub with open spaces and just two separate rooms. It was a Robinsons pub serving cask bitter through gas pumps, plus keg Cock Robin and Einhorn lager [2], pictured by Alan Winfield at Pubs Galore.
During further attempts at regeneration in Hulme following the demolition of many of the infamous flats in the area, the pub was substantially renovated and renamed Arch Bar then Zar Bar, but a gang-related shooting in 2007 led to its closure and eventual demolition in summer 2010.
2. The Manchester Pub Guide, Manchester & Salford City Centres (1975).
There still is a pub called the Red Admiral (built, I would say, around 1960), in Runcorn.
ReplyDeleteIt later swapped the gas pumps for a handpump.
ReplyDeleteThe refurbished Red Admiral was way ahead of it's time - it would clean up in the new sanitised student heavy Hulme. Shame Robinson's didn't hold their nerve...
ReplyDeleteMe and my sister use to go there in the 80s. Great nights.
ReplyDeleteI went during the time fat Don had it, good fun watching the hassle with his wife and his "girlfriend" Sheila. I went with my my mate Ian Stirton, sadly dead now. Happy memories tho of that pub and the Spinners which lan had a couple of years later.
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