Staff of Life, Ashton Old Road, Openshaw. (c) Brian George at Memories of pubs from Manchester and Salford Facebook [1].
The Staff of Life in Openshaw was the next pub along Ashton Old Road after the Vulcan. Like its neighbour over the road, the Malcolm, the Staff of Life has long been turned into a private house, but at least it was spared the wrecking ball unlike so many of the other 50-odd pubs that the Old Road once boasted.
Former Staff of Life, Ashton Old Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.
Before it closed the Staff of Life was a Belhaven house but for most of its time had been owned by Wilsons. These two photos from the archive show it as a Wilsons boozer. It would have been a busy market pub, facing the New Smithfield Market, which replaced the old one in town in the Northern Quarter.
Former Staff of Life, Ashton Old Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.
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