This one is north of the city centre in Cheetham, north of Strangeways on the corner of Waterloo Road, Elizabeth Street and Alderglen Road. However, the Waterloo Hotel is such an impressive and imposing building, we had to feature it. Not to mention the fact that there appears to be no history of the place lurking online or in our collection of references.
These great photos from Gene Hunt taken in 2008 suggest that the hotel can't have closed that long ago, and the attached off licence is still going. The once elegant sign proclaiming "Brewers of Quality Fine Ales and Lagers" had a Foster's stuck crudely over the "Vaux", hinting at a deterioration in beer quality in the Waterloo's death throes. Any help on the history of the Waterloo Hotel gratefully received...
Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Road, Cheetham. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr.
The signage looks like the Vaux house style.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is indeed, thanks. Was on the top of my tongue, but couldn't get Hydes out of my head. Fosters plastered over the VAUX
ReplyDeleteIt was a Boddingtons House in the 1970's
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear this has reopened as of February 2012...
ReplyDeleteDistant great-Aunt and Uncle once ran this establishment, I believe, the Manchester Census of 1861 shows Eliz & Edw Halsey running this establishment.
ReplyDeleteMy parents ran in from 1955 until 1958 when it was a Boddington's pub. There was a stage for cabaret acts which performed Friday's and Saturdays. It was none residential by then.
ReplyDeleteI meant acts performed on the stage...the stage didn't perform of course...
ReplyDeleteMy late uncle ran it in the 70s,
ReplyDeleteChris Harrigan.