Hand & Heart, Ashton Old Road, Beswick. (c) Manchester Local Image Collection. Click here to view full image [1].
The Hand & Heart was a Chesters pub on the corner of Chapel Grove and Ashton Old Road in Beswick, pretty much opposite the Grey Mare. Shown here in the 1960s looking down Chapel Grove, by 1971 the Hand & Heart was closed and in the process of demolition.
Hand & Heart, Ashton Old Road. (c) www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html [2].
Although not shown on the 1891 map like the Grey Mare Hotel [2], the exact location of Chapel Grove and the Hand & Heart was just after Pottery Lane going away from town, where a Seamark unit stands today.
Former location of Hand & Heart, Ashton Old Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.
It was actually Openshaw not Beswick, I lived 3 streets away in Turner street. Best Chesters on Waterloo road as some people called it due to a checkered past ( many pubs caught watering the beer )
ReplyDeleteI learned to drink here with my dad and his mates as a teenager.