The Cavendish, the old Clynes, these days sits empty, unlikely to reopen in the near future. Its old Wilsons livery can just be made out through layers of white paint. It's better probably known as Clynes Wine Bar, but it started and finished its life as the Cavendish - originally the Cavendish Arms.
When Thomas Clynes moved from the Clynes Vaults on Oxford Road in the late 1800s, he renamed it after himself and it lasted well into the 1990s. Clynes Wine Bar was the most rough and ready boozer I've ever been in, genuine hardcore Irish place. It was called a Wine Bar as it allowed it to stay open all day in the dark licensing law days - I doubt anyone ever drank any wine though.
Clynes Wine Bar is seen here in 1958 with the still-surviving stonework. Originally a Renshaw & Cardwell brewery house, it passed to Wilsons and then Vaux.
Cavendish, Cavendish Street. (c) Moss Side Durning Facebook [2].
In recent years before closure the Cavendish was a modern bar - popular enough with locals and students - with leather sofas, DJs, cheap grub but offering little in the way of decent beer.
1. The Old Pubs of Hulme & Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).
2. www.facebook.com/groups/76060780096.
2. www.facebook.com/groups/76060780096.
You didn’t mention the pool table, the pro Irish juke box or the close proximity to the excellent Church pub around the corner
ReplyDelete…used to play pool against Mick Hucknall who came in on his own. He may be a millionaire but I’m better at pool so there
ReplyDeleteBest pub in Hulme 1982-85 , regular lock-ins ,plenty of craic , great juke box and good mix of Irish builders & students . The annual trip to Cheltenham races was an extreme endurance test , starting at 7.00am and finishing 4.00am next day !
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