Clifford Street used to run off Oxford Road, exactly where the brutally-modern University bridge briefly takes the main road into darkness through a tunnel. It ran parallel to Booth Street East to meet up with Upper Brook Street. Just a few doors down Clifford Street from Oxford Road on the right hand side, as shown below, stood the Clifford Hotel. The Clifford was a Threlfalls then Chesters house which closed in 1968 [1]. The late '60s was a good time for Manchester, although not particularly for the pubs around here - the university expansions saw off a huge number of Chorlton-on-Medlock and Hulme boozers.
Former location of Clifford Hotel, Clifford Street. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
1. The Old Pubs of Hulme & Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).
My Grandparents kept The Clifford. Tom and Winnie Parkinson
ReplyDeleteMy mum and dad are not alive now i am one of the daurghters Chris i am 65 now please reply
DeleteWe lived next door Mr and Mrs Neill had 7 children
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ReplyDeleteMy Great Great Grandparents called Cookney ran 1 Clifford street during the early 1900s, would loved to have seen a proper photo of this street.
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