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Wednesday 28 September 2011

Hat & Feathers, Varley Street

Hat & Feathers, Varley Street, Miles Platting. (c) Google 2011 - View Larger Map.

This Miles Platting estate pub sat on the corner of Varley Street and Sandal Street, just off Bradford Road, in a now decimated part of north-east Manchester.  The side of the pub is shown here partly in 1967 in happier and busier times for 'The Platting', as the area is known locally.  The area is actually named after a platting, or bridge / culvert, which once crossed the old road into Manchester near here.  The Hat & Feathers building still stands according to googlemaps and has been used as a family charity base for some time until they moved out in 2008 [1].  Another of Manchester's unloved estate pubs; gone and almost forgotten. 

5 comments:

  1. i bought this pub off greenhall whitley in 1987. i sold scotish and newcastle beers tho it was a free house. i sold it in 1988 and it sold bodingtons until it closed a couple of years later

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  2. My mum and dad , Anne & John Briggs managed this pub fir greenhall whitley 1984-86. And then the Fountain pub on Bradford road. Great times. Great pubs.

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    1. Your Mum and Dad would have taken over from my parents-in-law, Carol and John Harrison, who managed it prior. They would love to speak to you or your parents about it!xx

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  3. Does anyone have any pictures from the good old days in this pub I have a friend who’s nan Lillian brown / Murray used to sing here she’s sadly recently passed and I’m hoping to find some old pictures if possible! Long shot I know but worth an ask!

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  4. Ide like to see some pictures too i use to live as a child in sandal court flats next to the hat and feathers

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