Heywood Arms, Oldham Road, Miles Platting. (c) Manchester Local Image Collection. Click here to view full image.
The Heywood Arms was a Wilsons house on the main Oldham Road running through Miles Platting, as the advert on the side suggests - "I like Olympic Superb Pale Ale", That's Why He's A Wilsonian. It used to stand on the corner of Fir Street in the shadow of St John the Evangelist church (seen here in 1961) which itself straddled Fir Street and Shetland Road. In 1972 the church was deconsecrated and pulled down and the new-build church, St Cuthbert's, was founded in its place [1]. The Heywood Arms is shown here in 1970, probably just a couple of years before its closure and demolition. New houses have recently gone up on the spot where the Heywood Arms once stood.
Former location of Heywood Arms, Oldham Road. (c) Google 2013. View Larger Map.
My grandparents managed the pub - they appear on the register in 1939 and ran it through the war, but I'm not sure when they gave it up. My father and my aunt worked in the pub too. My grandfather died in 1953 aged 68. Thank you for the information and the photos. They mean a lot to me.
ReplyDeleteCathbaker you may find this interesting - Manchester Evening News 22nd August 1944. In the "Birthday Greetings" section: Baker - Loving birthday greeting to our second son Tom (serving with the Middlesex Regt. B.L.A.) on his 29th birthday. We pray to God to send him home to us at last. Love from Mam and Dad and brother Arthur (serving in Italy). Heywood Arms, Oldham Road, M/c 10. Loving greetings to my brother Tom. No greater with than your safe return. From his loving Sister and Brother-in-Law Lil and Joe. God bless my Uncle Tommy. Love Peter. All the best to one of the best. From his loving Brother and Sister-in-Law Jack (R.A., B.L.A.) and Eileen.
DeleteIt's been a long time since I visited this page and I hadn't seen this - it is my family and it is very special to me. Than k you so much!
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