Friday 3 May 2013

Regent Hotel, Regent Road

Regent Hotel, Regent Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

To "supply the want that existed for hotel accommodation in the locality", the Regent Hotel was opened in 1866 by Thomas Chesters (founder of the brewery) as a three-storey house on the corner of West Craven Street and Regent Road.  Oddly the Regent was intended to be without a vault - essentially residents only - but probably due to the lack of trade, it soon opened a vault and other public rooms.  The Regent Hotel passed to Whitbread and in 1977 it was closed and demolished as part of Ordsall's redevelopment.  A new Regent, an estate-style pub, was opened close by, but this closed in 1990 [2].

Former location of Regent Hotel, Regent Road. (c) Google 2013. View Larger Map.

1. Salford Pubs of the 70s - www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
2. 2. Salford Pubs Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).

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