tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39815278889913739482012-01-30T23:04:41.250ZPubs of ManchesterPast & Presentgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.comBlogger12331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-34029764176023150432012-01-30T22:04:00.001Z2012-01-30T22:07:01.251ZDrop Forge, Greenside Street"When we first moved up to Openshaw village there was some nice shops. Where they have built the family housing now there used to be a pub called Drop Forge, there was a newsagents, there was a chippy, there was a vegetable shop and there was a paper shop [1]." The Drop Forge stood on Greenside Street, probably towards the top end near Clayton Lane where the new houses are. The 1984 snippet granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-62650910674336606792012-01-30T21:12:00.000Z2012-01-30T21:12:22.859ZAlexandra, Mill Street
Alexandra, Mill Street, Bradford. (c) London Gazette.
The Alexandra sat on the corner of Stuart Street and Mill Street in Bradford, just off where Alan Turing Way passes these days. The pub is shown twice at the archives in 1963, firstly as a Wilsons house, then advertising the much-maligned Watney's. The Alexandra was still open in 1989, listed as selling Tetley's bitter and mild [1], but granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-19943747368925716862012-01-30T19:37:00.003Z2012-01-30T19:41:50.792ZRichmond Inn, Syndall Street Richmond Inn, Syndall Street, Ardwick, 1969. (c) All rights reserved Fray Bentos (Stephen Dowle) at flickr. Click here for a larger version.
The Richmond Inn is shown at the archives in 1965 and 1970 as a Chesters house on the corner of Richmond Street and the just-surviving Syndall Street off Stockport Road. As shown above in 1969 in Stephen Dowle's fine photo, the sad sight of a pub left granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-76658248030699892082012-01-29T17:01:00.004Z2012-01-29T17:04:31.222ZCotton Tree, Cotton Hill Cotton Tree, Cotton Hill, Withington. (c) Aidan O'Rourke.
Shown as still trading on googlemaps, the Cotton Tree on Cotton Hill in Withington was demolished on 5th December 2010, having closed two months earlier to make way for new housing. Manchester photographer Aidan O'Rourke photographed the pub on 11th September 2002, noting the historic lamppost that the council removed a few years later [granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-81594849754225216942012-01-29T14:15:00.000Z2012-01-29T14:15:53.645ZLeamington Inn, Taylorson Street Leamington Inn, Taylorson Street, Ordsall, 1951. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
The Leamington Inn was a Walker & Homfray and Wilsons house on Taylorson Street, Ordsall, one of the areas surviving roads which passes in front of Ordsall Hall. It was opposite the entrance to Ordsall Park on the corner of Thorpe Street and opened in the early 1870s as a beerhouse. Many applications for a full license granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-2617193872442691412012-01-28T12:23:00.001Z2012-01-28T12:41:40.776ZOldham Road 1894 Oldham Road sign. (c) blogbeans.
This passage is from Angus Bethune Reach's book, Manchester and the Textile Districts in 1894. The book was made up of a series of articles which had originally been published in the Morning Chronicle:
In returning, last Sunday night, by the Oldham Road, from one of my tours, I was somewhat surprised to hear loud sounds of music and jollity which floated out ofgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-21067252308538247812012-01-28T10:47:00.001Z2012-01-28T10:49:13.813ZBridge Inn, Blackfriars Road
Former Bridge Inn, Blackfriars Road, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
The Bridge Inn was a short-lived beerhouse at the bottom end of Blackfriars Road on the corner of Sandon Street. It was listed in the 1840s, kept by James Duckworth, but it doesn't appear to have lasted too long, and by the early twentieth century, it was a branch of the Union Bank of Manchester [1].
Outside the former granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-46018713716412282082012-01-28T10:25:00.001Z2012-01-28T10:26:00.878ZGrove Inn / Buffalo Arms, York Street Grove Inn, York Street, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Grove Inn closed as a Walker's of Warrington pub on York Street off Stretford Road in Hulme in 1920 [1]. The beerhouse was originally known as the Buffalo Arms having been licensed since 1859 under Groves & Whitnall [2]. Old York Street is still there in Hulme today, and the site of the old Grove Inn, which was at No.150, was probably neargranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-76170318285551183812012-01-27T19:57:00.008Z2012-01-27T20:22:08.982Z171. Oast House, Crown Square
Oast House, Crown Square. (c) Oast House.
Manchester's newest addition to the real ale scene, the Oast House looks rather out of place in the clinical surroundings of Spinningfields with its rustic Kentish oast house (a hop-drying kiln) design. However, inside the place is reassuringly busy, with the ancient-looking wooden tables and their quirky chairs filled with a decent mix of young and granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-68125027129889388172012-01-26T21:05:00.004Z2012-01-27T19:32:45.538ZPineapple, West Worsley Street Pineapple, West Worsley Street, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
The Pineapple used to stand on West Worseley Street, just one house off Regent Road, a street which today is marked by the entrance to Goodiers Drive. It was first recorded in 1869, by 1892, Groves & Whitnall were advertising their "celebrated ales" although just two years later, Cardwell's Brewery took over granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-953270004548225812012-01-26T20:01:00.002Z2012-01-26T20:03:25.391Z170. Bar Exchange, St Anns Square Bar Exchange, St Anns Square. (c) Royal Exchange.
Advertised as a place for relaxing post-work or pre-show drinks, a visit to Bar Exchange was paid for the latter and intervals drinks in what is one of Manchester's most impressive interiors, the Royal Exchange. As to be expected, a dreadful selection of beer was on offer - bottles of Becks and Peroni only - so a first ever J W Lees Smooth had granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-7906259194095489222012-01-23T22:12:00.002Z2012-01-23T22:14:31.914ZPolytechnic Tavern, GreengateThe Polytechnic Tavern was the first pub on Greengate on the right as you travelled up from the bottom end of Chapel Street. Although it was demolished in around 1881 for the building of Manchester's Exchange Station, it can be traced back to 1792 when the Angel alehouse stood on the site. It was later known as the Plumbers Arms by 1816, then from 1822 it was the Jolly Potters or Potters Inn [1granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-11075653363286019122012-01-21T14:17:00.006Z2012-01-21T18:15:47.073ZExchange Tavern / Parker's Rest, St Mary's Gate Exchange Tavern, St Mary's Gate. (c) Digital Archives (www.digitalarchives.co.uk) [1].
This pub isn't marked on the 1849 map but 'Ye Old Exchange Taverne' can be seen on the Goad's 1880 Fire Insurance map of Manchester, as shown here, courtesy of Digital Archives [1]) and Andrew Simpson at the Chorlton History blog [2]. The pub was at 16-18 St Mary's Gate and was named after the nearby Royal granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-57599998560887946882012-01-21T12:26:00.002Z2012-01-21T12:32:38.205ZCross Keys, Broad Street Cross Keys, Broad Street, Salford. (c) Ur pictures of weaste by john quinn.
Two doors down from the Bay Horse was this little pub, the Cross Keys, on the corner of Cross Street and Broad Street. Before the Allerton Building of the University of Salford was built, the Cross Keys faced the small Leaf Square. The pub opened in 1856 and when Walker & Homfray took ownership in the early 20th granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-32153945318039781782012-01-21T12:01:00.009Z2012-01-21T12:08:28.739ZStag Inn, Hodge Lane Stag Inn, Hodge Lane. (c) Ur pictures of Weaste by john quinn.
The Stag Inn sat on Hodge Lane, roughly on the corner with where Athole Street is today, from the 1850s until 1968 [1]. Groves & Whitnall owned the pub and the house next door and they clearly rebuilt it at some point, complete with their distinctive white tiling.
Stag Inn, Hodge Lane. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
1. Salford Pubs -granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-63408253826911247442012-01-18T22:21:00.002Z2012-01-18T22:25:12.580ZBay Horse, Broad Street Bay Horse, Broad Street, Salford. (c) Ur pictures of weaste by john quinn's Photos.
The Bay Horse on Broad Street was first recorded in 1863 and a few years later in the Salford Reporter advertising "good ale and porter." Next door to the Bay Horse in the 1880s was a fried fish shop (a chippy?) which drew complaints to the authorities ("disagreeable to the neighbourhood") and in 1886 the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-1616285195114385302012-01-18T20:37:00.002Z2012-01-18T20:39:40.294ZDuke of Cumberland, Cumberland StreetAt the end of Brazennose Street across Deansgate today sits the front of the Spinningfields development. From the 1849 map shown below, it's clear that the name Spinningfields was taken from the old street that used to pass just north of here - Spinningfield. The next street south was Cumberland Street which ran directly along the path of Brazennose Street, on to meet up with Dolefield (which granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-77375762742379048632012-01-15T08:59:00.003Z2012-01-15T09:19:08.274ZTanners Arms, Oxford Street Tanners Arms, Oxford Street, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
Oxford Street in Salford used to be a main thoroughfare that passed south from Regent Road, past the iconic Salford Lads Club on the corner of Coronation Street and what was Oxford Street (and previously Henrietta Street). A few yards down the street and on the other side of the road was the Tanners Arms on the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-37971462599924193802012-01-14T16:07:00.004Z2012-01-14T16:15:18.095ZPaul Pry / I Hope I Don't Intrude Inn, Broughton Road Paul Pry / I Hope I Don't Intrude Inn (1), Broughton Road. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
At the Greengate end of Broughton Road (now Blackfriars Road), the Paul Pry beerhouse was next door-but-one to the corner of Springfield Lane, opposite the Salford Union Workhouse. It was first recorded in 1840, but by 1864 it had a new, more unusual name, the I Hope I Don't Intrude Inn, which was one of Paul granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-72380807177956953862012-01-14T12:37:00.002Z2012-01-14T12:45:34.166ZLloyds Arms, Booth Street West
Former location of Lloyds Arms, Booth Street West. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
The Lloyds Arms was a "spit & sawdust" style boozer on Booth Street West off Oxford Road, shown as a plain-looking Bass house in this 1973 photo from the archives. It was adjacent to the Royal Northern College of Music and today, the extension to the school covers the site of the pub. Students and performers granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-76697761976821240822012-01-14T12:09:00.003Z2012-01-14T12:13:21.651Z169. Red Lion, Wilmslow Road Red Lion, Wilmslow Road, Withington. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr under Creative Commons.
After the good (Friendship, Victoria, Turnpike), the bad (Sir Joseph Whitworth, Great Central) and the ugly (endearingly so - the Albert and the Orion), we finished our Fallowfield and Withington wander in the Red Lion. This big old Marston's inn has always been popular with locals and students who mix well, granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-88389203235777979042012-01-14T11:20:00.005Z2012-01-14T11:28:48.967ZHuntsman, Wilmslow Road Huntsman, Wilmslow Road, Rusholme. (c) Adam B. at flickr.
I would love this this theory about the Huntsman on Wilmslow Road to be true - that the pub is a front for an ancient Rusholme community of withered, malnourished, subterranean dwellers who are guarded by the smoking sentries that huddle around the front door [1]. Whilst the description of many of the Huntsman's old regulars may be granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-75257120092501318082012-01-13T23:46:00.004Z2012-01-13T23:51:25.664ZAlbert Park Inn, Great Clowes Street Albert Park Inn, Great Clowes Street, Lower Broughton. (c) deltrems at flickr [1].
One of Salford's most recently built estate pubs, the Albert Park Inn only opened in 1983 under John Kain [2]. It was a pleasant and popular new pub at the time, offering a better place to drink for locals than the nearby House That Jack Built [1]. Even so, the pub was demolished in 2004, barely two decades granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-86347584883690897162012-01-13T21:47:00.004Z2012-01-13T22:13:21.529ZOld Pack Horse, Oldham RoadOld Pack Horse, Oldham Road, Collyhurst. (c) Mick Burke & Frank Heaton [1].
This handsome little boozer was crammed in amongst the factories (and what looks like a church on the left) that once lined part of Oldham Road leading into town from Collyhurst through Miles Platting. The Old Pack Horse was a Wilsons house and in the early 20th century was run by a Tim Carlisle. He was a musical sort, granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-57632376395584418332012-01-13T19:53:00.005Z2012-01-13T20:05:57.873ZOld Priory, Laurel Grove
Old Priory, Laurel Grove, Higher Broughton. (c) deltrems at flickr [1].
The Old Priory was demolished in 1998 and now, in between the top end of Great Clowes Street and Lower Broughton Road, is an old folks home. This will have been sad news for the MUFC pissheads (no names mentioned, Captain Marvel) as their old training ground, The Cliff, was yards away and they were known to frequent the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-36956478024207873502012-01-13T19:10:00.002Z2012-01-13T19:11:57.045ZLowry, Langley Road South Lowry, Langley Road South, Salford, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr.
This wonderfully-grim '70s estate pub is still in use today as a church - apparently the Good News Assembly Pentecostal Church, although when the pub first closed, it became St George's Church [2]. The Lowry was built by Whitbread in 1977 as the estate pub for the new houses on Langley Road South when Whit Lane was replaced. Ingranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-32711870077651696262012-01-12T21:11:00.000Z2012-01-12T21:11:29.433ZTamworth, Tamworth Street Tamworth, Tamworth Street, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Tamworth was a Manchester Brewery then Wilsons house that stood on a lost street of the same name that ran off Stretford Road along what today is Nash Street [1]. The Tamworth Inn, to give it its full name and to differentiate it from the Tamworth House just up the street, was the penultimate Tamworth Street pub to close in 1965, in granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-215065243983105742012-01-12T21:01:00.000Z2012-01-12T21:01:01.137ZMarlborough, Upper Moss Lane Marlborough, Upper Moss Lane, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The lower part of Upper Moss Lane is known as Rolls Crescent today (named, of course, after the Rolls Royce workshop that started the famous name off in Hulme). Shown in 1965 at the archives, the Marlborough Arms stood on the corner with the short Lever Street and was a Manchester Brewery, Walker & Homfray and finally Wilsons house, when granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-80999234406785201262012-01-09T19:39:00.002Z2012-01-09T19:44:05.590ZDerby, Derby Street Derby, Derby Street, Ordsall, 1961. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
Known as the 'Big Derby' to set it apart from the Derby Arms, the 'Little Derby', the Derby Hotel was finally granted its full license in 1872, four years after opening. It had been built for £3,000 as a first-class hotel for district, and the building of 256 new houses in this part of Ordsall around Derby Street sealed the deal. granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-56646270930215499542012-01-09T19:11:00.001Z2012-01-09T19:12:06.555ZDog & Partridge, Silk Street Dog & Partridge, Silk Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
This Cornbrook Brewery house was lost in the St Matthias clearance area around Silk Street. The Dog & Partridge opened in the 1850s but in 1898 it was deemed unsafe by the Borough Surveyor - he reported the beerhouse had begun to settle in the middle and the walls bulged. Cornbrook rebuilt the beerhouse, taking the butcher's whichgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-38220034035272167712012-01-09T13:50:00.003Z2012-01-09T13:52:14.293ZCity centre north pub crawlThanks to Rob Jozefowski who sent in these great pub crawl maps. This one takes in familiar territory and many of our favourite haunts on match day (and otherwise). It offers beer lovers paradises (Marble Arch, Angel, Port Street Beer House), reinvented classic boozers (Marble Arch (again), Angel (again), Fringe, Crown & Kettle, The Castle) and a couple of old characterful places (Smithfield granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-32980256064185620112012-01-09T13:34:00.004Z2012-01-09T13:38:13.175ZCity centre south pub crawlThanks to Rob Jozefowski for sending these pub crawl maps in. A fine selection of Manchester hostelries, the first one covers a pick of the southern city centre, taking in The Vine, City Arms, Peveril of the Peak, Lass O'Gowrie, Sandbar and Deaf Institute:
(c) Rob Jozefowski.
granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-6376290541989605572012-01-07T14:39:00.006Z2012-01-09T19:40:22.051ZDerby Arms, Derby Street Derby Arms, Derby Street, Ordsall. (c) John Bulmer at How to be a Retronaut.
Last year we asked you to "name that pub" after John Bulmer featured this evocative photo (and one of the old Broadway) on How to be a Retronaut. At the time, this one stumped us, but 10 months after the post, Mr Wilson (Paul Wilson, Salford Housing Officer and collator of the superb Salford Pubs of the 70s photos at granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-17760154488465024932012-01-05T21:46:00.002Z2012-01-05T21:52:41.336ZTalbot / Ladybarn, Mauldeth RoadLadybarn, Mauldeth Road, Ladybarn. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr under Creative Commons.
This grand-looking boozer in Ladybarn was once ran by Frank Swift, the legendary Manchester City goalkeeper who died in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 along with eight United players, plus 14 others. In the 1950s when Swift had it before he became a journalist, the pub was known as the Talbot and there are granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-34035672605435278422012-01-05T20:12:00.001Z2012-01-05T20:13:34.637ZChurch Inn, Derby Street Church Inn, Derby Street, Ordsall, 1965. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
Derby Street in Ordsall has been completely lost since the redevelopment of this part of Salford, just south of Regent Road. Whereas in the past, Derby Street used to run just to the west of and parallel to Oldfield Road, today the small estate of St Bartholomew's Drive and Chancel Avenue has replaced the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-83575999413367054162012-01-04T19:06:00.002Z2012-01-04T19:15:17.287ZBrewers Arms, Rochdale Road Brewers Arms, Rochdale Road. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Brewers Arms stood at the bottom of Rochdale Road on the corner of what is now Kenwright Street (then Kenyon Street). This unheralded street is parallel to the much-better known Angel Street and the fine boozer, the Angel / Beer House / Weavers. The Brewers Arms was originally licensed as smaller pub one door along Kenyon Street [2], and wasgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-86758252478209111912012-01-04T18:41:00.001Z2012-01-04T18:43:11.144ZDruids Arms, Liverpool Street Druids Arms, Liverpool Street, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
This unlikely survivor of Salford is a café-sandwich bar today and can be traced back to 1850s when it opened as the Druids Arms on the corner of Ducie Place and Liverpool Street, not far off Oldfield Road and the Crescent. By the 1890s the pub was owned by Issott's Brewery of Ardwick but the local giant, granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-83096358995736956882011-12-27T12:19:00.003Z2011-12-27T12:37:47.755ZGloucester Arms / Cambridge Inn, Regent Road Gloucester Arms, Regent Road, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
This Regent Road boozer on the corner of West Peel Street started out as the Monarch Brewery Vaults and although it quickly changed its name after opening in 1861 to the General Havelock. The Monarch Brewery lasted 20 years but the pub remained after it was demolished, changing back to the Monarch Brewery Vaults in 1867, then to granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-257970707025961742011-12-22T21:43:00.001Z2011-12-22T21:43:46.632ZGrove Inn, Regent Road Grove Inn, Regent Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
The narrow, three-storey Grove Inn on Regent Road was a landmark for a time, as all the shops around it had been pulled down. It had been a less-striking-looking beerhouse in the middle of a row of seven houses and shops, first licensed in 1848, before being taken over by Groves & Whitnall in the 1890s. The brewery granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-7983027779072120242011-12-22T21:25:00.001Z2011-12-22T21:25:41.051ZGreyhound, Woden Street
Greyhound, Woden Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
Just over the River Irwell into Salford, the Greyhound sat on the corner of the lost Bigland Street and Woden Street, just off Ordsall Lane. It was first recorded in 1865 and was a Groves & Whitnall house by the 1920s followed Greenall Whitley's in the '70s or '80s [2]. The Greyhound was one of Ordsall's survivors granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-58805958152319054842011-12-19T21:33:00.002Z2011-12-19T21:37:30.776ZOrdsall, Ordsall Lane
Ordsall, Ordsall Lane, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
The Ordsall was a large, three-storey pub on the corner of Everard Street towards the bottom of Ordsall Lane. It survived longer than most of its neighbours along here having opened as the fully licensed Ordsall Hotel in the 1860s, although in 1911, Alfred Gadd's licence was revoked when he was found guilty of opening granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-55105198908774472732011-12-19T19:11:00.005Z2011-12-20T12:03:43.927ZSpringbank / O'Connor's, Stockport Road
O'Connor's, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
This boozer in Longsight was captured in happier times by Alan Winfield in 1993, as seen at pubsgalore [1]. In the '90s, O'Connor's was a Tetley's pub and as its name suggests, it was popular with the large Irish community around here. The pub was originally known as the Springbank, a Walkers of Warrington house, as granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-56071277587292713682011-12-19T18:58:00.001Z2011-12-19T18:59:27.284ZGrove, Bury New Road Grove, Bury New Road, Higher Broughton. (c) deltrems at flickr [1].
The Grove was a large Boddingtons house on the border of Manchester and Salford in Higher Broughton. It sat on the corner of Appian Way and Bury New Road, next to the Horners car dealership which remains there today, and in the past had once had a third floor [1]. There is a photo of the Grove at pubsgalore taken by Alan granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-48668981574307918312011-12-16T17:08:00.001Z2011-12-17T16:42:34.913ZFox Tavern, Clayton LaneFox Tavern, Clayton Lane, Openshaw (c) Keith Williamson at GEOlocation under Creative Commons.
The Fox Tavern stood on the corner of Ridings Street and Clayton Lane, not far off Alan Turing Way and Ashton Old Road. It was closed and pulled down in 2003 as part of the East Manchester redevelopment scheme, ironically, just as as it may have had a boost in trade as City moved to the area. It was agranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-18400321071318375092011-12-16T16:52:00.002Z2011-12-16T17:15:19.474ZDucie Arms, Stockport RoadDucie Arms, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Ducie Arms page at Manchester History [1].
The Ducie Arms, pictured above still trading at the Manchester History site, sadly closed in the mid-'00s and remains a sorry sight on the main Stockport Road through Longsight. It stands on the corner of Hayley Street just up from Plymouth Grove, adjacent to Longsight Youth Centre which is the old Longsight granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-6777623972448634292011-12-16T16:34:00.001Z2011-12-16T16:35:39.845ZWelcome, Ordsall Lane
Welcome, Ordsall Lane, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s [1].
A couple of doors up Ordsall Lane from Jospeh Holt's still surviving Bricklayers Arms stood the Welcome Inn on the corner of Garrett Street. It was first recorded in the 1860s like its neighbour on the other side, the Albion, and the first brewery to own the Welcome was Longsight's Barber & Co, followed by J W Lees. The Ordsall granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-26779092255033948872011-12-13T20:34:00.003Z2011-12-13T20:45:24.701ZPost Office, Hilton Street
Post Office, Hilton Street, Higher Broughton, 1952. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
Hilton Street in Higher Broughton boasts one of Salford's few surviving pubs, the Church, but lower down, on the corner with Fenney Street, stood the Post Office until 1978. Today, looking at this corner, just off Bury New Road, you can see another survivor, the Dover, along Fenney Street. The Post Office Inn granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-30111658010859234972011-12-13T20:03:00.001Z2011-12-13T20:04:32.359ZAlbion, Ordsall LaneAlbion, Ordsall Lane, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
Originally the Irwell Inn in the 1860s, the Albion was a Walkers Brewery that stood on the corner of Irwell View and Ordsall Lane until the 1990s. It originally had a plain corner door leading into the vault and a side door to the bar parlour before it was altered into the pub shown here. When the Regent Road flats were granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-62434647153096059502011-12-13T19:33:00.002Z2011-12-13T19:53:51.776ZPickwick Inn, Oldfield RoadPickwick Inn, Oldfield Road, Salford, 1959. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
The Pickwick Inn stood on the lower part of Oldfield Road on the corner with Zebra Street, opposite the Oldfield Road ironworks. First recorded in 1871, the Pickwick belonged to Cronshaw's Brewery in the 1890s and Groves & Whitnall took over in 1899. A year later the landlord, Thomas Jackson, was in trouble granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-83532637472265384982011-12-11T17:46:00.002Z2011-12-11T18:01:20.735ZLochnagarr, Medlock StreetLochnagarr, Medlock Street. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Lochnagarr Inn was apparently named after a Scottish balled, 'Lachin y Gair' (although it could just as easily be after the Lochnagar mountains in the Grampains) by the Scottish licensee, Alexander Graham. The pub had previously been known as the George the Fourth until 1851 [2] - the 1860 date on the pub sign may refer to a rebuild date of thegranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-37181874077535357252011-12-11T17:27:00.003Z2011-12-11T17:53:21.293ZYorkshire House, River Street
Yorkshire House, River Street. (c) Bob Potts [1].
This Walkers boozer had the odd feature of its sign spanning across the house next door on River Street. The Yorkshire House was originally a Bell & Co. pub and closed in 1925 after it was compulsorily purchased by Manchester Corporation [1]. Facing the Yorkshire House was the Lochnagarr Inn across Medlock Street (right in the above photo).
granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-11580924580159020492011-12-11T16:49:00.002Z2011-12-11T16:49:22.943ZBritish Standard, River StreetBritish Standard, River Street. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The British Standard is another Hulme pub lost beneath the Mancunian Way. River Street once extended further west and met up with Great Jackson Street, itself which used to carry on south rather than sweep round and join City Road East. The British Standard was on the south side of River Street, a couple of blocks before it met Great Jackson granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-6599055008363306442011-12-10T12:19:00.005Z2012-01-12T16:16:17.126ZHobsons Choice / Brown Cow, Oldfield Road -Hobsons Choice, Oldfield Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s [1].
Hobsons Choice stood on the corner of Cow Lane and Oldfield Road as a Whitbred house until 1999 when it was demolished, having closed in 1993. Originally the Brown Cow, the beerhouse it opened in 1862 and was rebuilt by Chesters Brewery at some point. As Chesters merged with Threlfalls, they were then taken over by granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-40139756276328971882011-12-08T22:03:00.001Z2012-01-05T22:09:12.127ZDerby, Exbury Street
Derby Arms sign, Ladybarn Lane, Ladybarn. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map
This old boozer has been converted into a residential properties for a number of years, although pleasingly, the pub sign has been retained as a feature outside on its pole on Ladybarn Lane.
Derby Arms sign, Ladybarn Lane. (c) Google 2011.
The Derby actually stood just behind here on Exbury Street off Mauldeth Roadgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-31396770333105342892011-12-08T21:46:00.002Z2011-12-08T22:53:28.174ZOld House at Home, Braemar Road
Old House at Home, Braemar Road, Ladybarn. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
This backstreet local's pub sadly closed in 2010 year and has recently been converted into accommodation. The planning document laments the loss of the pub as "...regrettable as it represented a community facility that facilitated social cohesion [1]." The Old House at Home was hidden away on Braemar Street, parallelgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-1425000059270189712011-12-08T19:11:00.005Z2011-12-08T20:49:32.003ZShakespeare, Philips Park RoadShakespeare, Philips Park Road, Bradford. (c) Henry Bairsto [1].
The Shakespeare was a Chesters house at the junction of Forge Lane and Philips Park Road, back in the days when the latter used to run all the way from Miles Platting and through the area where the mini athletics stadium and the larger MCFC stadium is. The archives has a 1971 photo of the Shakespeare from the Forge Lane side. Thegranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-46602747408499999532011-12-08T18:55:00.000Z2011-12-08T18:55:04.791ZForge Tavern, Forge LaneForge Tavern, Forge Lane, Bradford. (c) Henry Bairsto [1].
The Forge Tavern was opposite the Bee Hive on Forge Lane (Alan Turing Way), near to the Bradford Pit entrance. As such it was a popular place for miners and workers to sink a few pre- or post-shift pints; this time Wilsons rather than the Chesters available over the road. Sadly, both these legendary Manchester ales are consigned to thegranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-19788453889980877252011-12-08T18:46:00.002Z2011-12-08T20:50:27.563ZBee Hive, Forge LaneBee Hive, Forge Lane, Bradford. (c) Henry Bairsto [1].
The Bee Hive was right outside the entrance to the Bradford Pit, so would be full of miners who would have a quick shower after their shift then head for a pint of Chesters. Morning workers would also pop in for a couple of pints before work (a more relaxed attitude to health & safety then) while the afternoon shift would have to convince granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-90795842205512860902011-12-08T18:36:00.001Z2011-12-08T18:36:58.370ZHalf Moon, Holland StreetHalf Moon, Holland Street, Miles Platting. (c) Henry Bairsto [1].
The Half Moon was a small Wilson's pub at the top end of Holland Street, also shown here at the archives in 1963. This street still runs through Miles Platting from Butler Street to Varley Street (and has the still-surviving Navigation pub), but in the past it continued on to meet up with Hulme Hall Lane (Alan Turing Way). The granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-30941808400587128072011-12-08T18:18:00.003Z2011-12-08T19:22:19.691ZStag, Philips Park RoadThe Stag, Philips Park Road, Bradford, 1971. (c) Copyright Manchester Libraries.
The Stag is shown above and in 1971 at the archives on the corner of Sedon Street and Philips Park Road. The photograph of the Stag was taken by A. Dawson from here at the Manchester Local Studies Collection, and adheres to their policy of allowing not-for-profit sites to display a limited number of their images in granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-91710953526742289992011-12-05T22:06:00.001Z2011-12-05T22:07:44.051ZPubs of Manchester posterName all 105 Manchester pubs featured on this great poster (via @UtdNation at twitter)...
(c) hgwh at photobucket.granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-5710302350575429732011-12-05T21:46:00.000Z2011-12-05T21:46:29.570ZPrince of Wales, Oldfield Road Prince of Wales, Oldfield Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
Next door to Jollies (formerly St Philips Hotel) the top of Oldfield Road near to Chapel Street was the tiny Prince of Wales. It was known locally as "Little's", not due to its size and probably not to differentiate it from the other Prince of Wales further down Oldfield Road either, but because it was run by the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-47206064155980148622011-12-04T18:13:00.001Z2011-12-04T18:15:03.430ZMitre Inn / Wine Bar, Stretford RoadMitre Inn, Stretford Road, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Mitre Inn actually started out as the Mitre Wine Bar in 1866 under Allsopps Brewery. It modified its name and survived under the Walker Cain Brewery until 1966 [2], although the brick building pictured at number 63 Stretford Road was probably an update on the original pub. Sadly the pub and its neighbouring boozers and shops, on what wasgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-53968379185234311742011-12-04T17:49:00.001Z2012-01-28T10:10:58.793ZNottingham Arms / White House Tavern, Warde StreetNottingham Arms, Warde Street, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
Originally the White House Tavern, a Peter Walker & Son house, this pub became the Nottingham Arms in 1860. It stood on the corner of White Street and Warde Street until it closed in 1965 [2]. White Street has gone but the latter still runs through Hulme; the former location of the Nottingham Arms was just east of where Old York Street granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-51257030262200648242011-12-04T17:23:00.000Z2011-12-04T17:23:06.957ZIvy House, Chapman StreetIvy House, Chapman Street, Hulme. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Ivy House looks strangely reminiscent of some of the Hulme estate pubs of the 1970s, despite the fact it closed in 1938 as an Empress Brewery house, having opened in 1862 [1]. It had previously been a Peter Walker & Son's house and stood on Chapman Street, a road which is long-gone since the Hulme redevelopments, but ran just north and granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-83398377166995345912011-11-29T19:40:00.002Z2012-01-14T11:51:37.704Z168. Turnpike, Wilmslow RoadTurnpike, Wilmslow Road, Withington. (c) MEN [1].
The nearby Albert is a blast from the past that should be celebrated, and pleasingly the Turnpike officially has been, as earlier this year it was added to CAMRA's historic pub list. This Sam Smith's pub has barely changed since the 1960s, when it was renamed and expanded from the old Rochdale & Manor Brewery pub, the Wellington, into the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-22456742340223748252011-11-29T19:01:00.002Z2011-11-29T19:10:37.272ZKings Arms, Oldfield Road
Kings Arms, Oldfield Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
The Kings Arms sat on the corner of Allwood Street and Oldfield Road until as recently as 2000, and can be traced back to 1805 when the Good Samaritan opened. Five years later it had changed its name to the Kings Arms and the owner was John Allwood, hence the street name. The pub was rebuilt in 1848 and the brewhouse granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-3898979332632631332011-11-26T13:09:00.000Z2011-11-26T13:09:40.341ZNapoleon, Rochdale Road
Napoleon, Rochdale Road, Collyhurst. (c) Bob Potts [1].
The Napoleon was at 275 Rochdale Road, and as the Marble Arch is No.97 and the Osbourne on the other side was No.360, a rough guess for the location of the Napoleon would be around Bomley Street and where the railway passes under Rochdale Road. The beerhouse opened in 1839 in the same year that Napoleon visited Manchester from France. granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-86989129920116952712011-11-26T11:41:00.002Z2011-11-26T12:40:49.785ZSherwood, Wilmslow Road
Former Sherwood, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
The student-only pub (maybe one of the better nearby boozers should implement a No Students policy) known today as the Orange Grove, on the corner of Wilmslow Road and Sherwood Street, was previously known as the Sherwood. Knowing student tastes, it's doubtful whether the Orange Grove offers much in the way of a granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-91338384004361223382011-11-26T00:39:00.006Z2011-11-26T00:50:36.572ZCrumpsall Hotel, Tyson StreetCrumpsall Hotel, Tyson Street. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr under Creative Commons.
The Crumpsall Hotel has been pulled down recently following stories in the local press about it being under threat due to expansion of the Cheetham Hill Shopping Centre [1]. Shown in the 1970s at the Manchester Local Image Collection, this Holt's house was another classic, grimly-functional estate pub on the corner ofgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-20926001816387993522011-11-20T16:47:00.001Z2011-11-20T16:49:09.007ZKings Arms, Whit Lane
Former Kings Arms, Whit Lane, Salford. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
The Kings Arms ceased to be a pub in the 1990s when it was known as Jolsons Bar, and became the Kings Court care home, a function of sorts it continues today as the Kiddies Kingdom nursery. These days it sits on St George's Way off Langley Road South and Cromwell Road, but before the Charlestown redevelopment, Whit Lane granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-27248047595803860272011-11-20T15:57:00.000Z2011-11-20T15:57:30.038ZOld House at Home, Whit Lane
Old House at Home, Whit Lane, Salford. (c) David Dixon at geograph under Creative Commons.
The Old House at Home sits forlornly closed on Whit Lane off Langley Road near the looped River Irwell. It's not been closed that long - shutting at some point in the 2000s - as evidenced by the satellite dish that the pub has sported until recently. It's tinned up and probably primed for demolition, granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-81493070096261785032011-11-20T13:10:00.002Z2011-12-05T20:59:21.693ZNew Ship, Blackfriars RoadNew Ship, Blackfriars Road, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
This handsome boozer stood on the corner of Salford Street (long gone) and Broughton Road (later Blackfriars Road) where Blackfriars and Silk Street meet today, the original New Ship beerhouse opening in the 1860s. Groves & Whitnall bought up the neighbouring shop and six cottages and rebuilt the New Ship in Tudor granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-65439950345477150272011-11-20T11:41:00.002Z2011-11-20T11:44:41.647ZCavendish Hotel, Cavendish Street
Former Cavendish Hotel, Cavendish Street. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map
Seen here in 1970, the Cavendish Hotel has been recently refurbished for student accommodation, as seen on the Manchester History website [1]. A couple of years later the Cavendish had apparently closed and may have been used as an army training centre as this 1973 photo seems to suggest. This Cavendish is not to be granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-29371132591902032772011-11-19T09:19:00.004Z2012-01-14T11:50:12.623Z167. Orion, Burton RoadOrion, Burton Road, Withington. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr under Creative Commons.
This was a quick visit as we diverted from the main road to try out a good old Holt's house that was new to most of us, bar our Irish chum who'd dodged taxes around here in the 1980s. Back then it was a Whitbread house as Joseph Holt's only took the Orion in the 1990s [1]. Today it has the typical Holt's no-frills granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-19405343344086037982011-11-19T08:59:00.003Z2011-11-20T09:35:39.270ZLancaster, Stockport RoadLancaster, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Manchester History.
The Victorian splendour of the old Lancaster Hotel on the corer of Plymouth Grove West and Stockport Road is barely recognisable from the modest conversion that stood here in more recent times [1]. Alan Winfield at Pubs Galore photographed the Lancaster as a Vaux house in 1993 [2], before it was demolished later in the '90s to leave granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-13973761398949777332011-11-15T21:46:00.002Z2011-11-15T22:11:30.856ZLangworthy, Langworthy RoadLangworthy, Langworthy Road, Salford, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr.
The Langworthy was opened in 1900 by Threlfalls Brewery, "the finest house in the district, beautifully decorated" with a billiard room and rare public telephone [1]. In 1985 Whitbread refurbished the Langworthy Hotel and it served the local area until 1993 when it became a hostel for a few years before laying empty ever since.granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-15276984906099293312011-11-15T20:49:00.000Z2011-11-15T20:49:44.897ZDruids Arms, Brook StreetDruids Arms, Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 1912. (c) Bob Potts [1].
Back in the days when Upper Brook Street was simple Brook Street, there were a number of pubs at the city centre end, one being the Druids Arms, on at the top end of Grosvenor Street on the other side. It was originally a Hardy's Crown Brewery pub but before it closed in 1962, it had been a Walker's of Warrington house forgranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-81644252647962919002011-11-15T20:34:00.000Z2011-11-15T20:34:34.032ZWindsor Castle, New WindsorWindsor Castle, New Windsor, Salford, 1961. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
The Windsor Castle Inn stood on the corner of West George Street and New Windsor (later Windsor) from 1791 until 1976, when it made way for the new Albion Way road which bypassed Cross Lane to join Regent Road and The Crescent. The nearby Cross Lane Cattle Market attracted "the most influential of the cattle salesman, as well granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-25664035212007385372011-11-15T20:12:00.001Z2011-11-15T20:58:33.606ZRailway, GreengateRailway, Greengate, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
The Railway was a beerhouse just a couple of doors up the north side of Greengate from the bottom of Chapel Street. First recorded in 1840s, the tenant in 1869 was the prize fighter, Bill Brown who once fought fellow licensee, Jack Miller of the Pink Tavern on nearby Bury Street, for a prize purse of £50. After 21 rounds and as Brown won, granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-54817626927456525772011-11-14T21:45:00.002Z2011-11-14T21:48:46.384ZLord Egerton, West Craven Street
Lord Egerton, West Craven Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
West Craven Street used to run all the way from Ordsall Park to Regent Road, and on the corner of the lost Martha Street stood the Lord Egerton, which dates back to about 1868. The Lord Egerton was nicknamed Blick's after owner William Blick, whom Express Brewery took over from. Walkers Brewery had it in the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-77802041007937773022011-11-14T21:17:00.001Z2011-11-14T21:18:18.025ZGrey Mare, Exeter Close
Grey Mare, on the former Exeter Close, Ardwick. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
This Ardwick/Longsight estate pub is still shown on googlemaps, despite the Coversale Estate between Hyde Road and Stockport Road being drastically altered in recent years. Like its better-known sister estate, the Hulme Crescents in the early 1990s, Fort Ardwick was finally condemned in the late '80s [1]. Alan granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-36578672347767512522011-11-13T16:37:00.001Z2011-11-13T16:39:34.022ZRailway, Liverpool Street
Former Railway, Liverpool Street, Salford. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
The Railway was rebuilt in 1963 in estate pub-style and remains today on the corner of Oldfield Road and the start of Liverpool Street. Sadly, it's as a printers rather than a pub. The original Railway was built in 1855 and towards the end of the century, Walkers & Homfray expanded the pub by incorporating three granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-90949165979759672882011-11-13T16:11:00.003Z2011-11-13T16:15:23.628ZBroughton, Great Cheetham Street EastBroughton, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton. (c) deltrems at flickr.
This imposing old pub still stands as the Oriental Pearl Chinese restaurant on Great Cheetham Street East in Higher Broughton. The pub dates back to 1875 as a Threlfalls house and was built as a commercial hotel to cater for the expanding districts of Higher Broughton.
Broughton, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-60459606279508075382011-11-13T12:49:00.003Z2012-01-14T11:49:30.405Z166. Albert, Wilmslow RoadAlbert, Wilmslow Road, Withington. (c) Whose View.
On face value, this small Irish pub offers very little compared to Manchester's finest boozers - no real ale, no decent bottled beers, and only the dreadful Guinness and smoothflow on offer aside from cooking lager. However, in terms of character and atmosphere, the Albert has it in spades. From the friendly, feisty barmaid ("Ale? We're just agranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-59869836632030686342011-11-13T12:25:00.001Z2011-11-13T12:25:53.251ZStar Inn / Weavers Arms, Ford LaneStar Inn, Ford Lane, Salford, 1961. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
The Weavers Arms on Ford Lane, just off Blackfriars Road / Broughton Lane, was originally a shop in the 1830s, but by 1855 the beerhouse appeared and Boddington's Brewery owned it by the 1880s. The Strangeways brewer rebuilt and renamed the Weavers as the Star Inn in 1885. The Star served this St Matthias area of granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-59300193113619099052011-11-13T10:59:00.003Z2011-11-13T11:05:01.839ZGrey Mare, Cannon StreetGrey Mare, Cannon Street, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.
Seen here for the first time in decades thanks to Salford Pubs of the 70s photos at flickr [1], the Grey Mare was the last of Cannon Street's pubs to be demolished having stood here near the Silk Street - Blackfriars Road (formerly Broughton Road) junction since 1863. The beerhouse was leased by Groves & Whitnall in 1893 granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-20923379925721427592011-11-13T10:29:00.002Z2012-01-14T11:48:55.688Z165. Victoria, Wilmslow RoadVictoria, Wilmslow Road, Withington. (c) Mike Faherty at geograph under Creative Commons.
Another Hyde's house in their central-south Manchester stronghold, this old locals' boozer has recently undergone a significant refurbishment, relaunching itself as a real ale haven on this stretch of Wilmslow Road in Withington. The Victoria dates back to the late 1800s and Hydes took it in 1904, extendinggranatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-46648397172007175082011-11-10T21:15:00.003Z2011-11-10T21:22:12.028ZRoyal Archer, Lower Broughton RoadRoyal Archer, Lower Broughton Road, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
The Royal Archer was on the same side as the Poets Corner, opposite it on the other side of Hough Lane. It can be traced back to 1873 when a "large and handsome hotel" applied to take over the licence of the old Royal Archer on Chapel Street. When the old pub was pulled down for the construction of Blackfriars Road, the new granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-35984070117641741822011-11-10T19:18:00.006Z2012-01-14T11:48:01.554Z164. Friendship, Wilmslow RoadFriendship, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield. (c) deltrems at flickr.
This grand old boozer is comfortably the best pub in Fallowfield these days - why would you bother with any other when there are at least a dozen ales on and almost as many screens for when the football's on? Add into the mix huge seating areas to the front and side, and even covered outdoor screens to the rear, what more can the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-5863989873235427342011-11-06T11:15:00.005Z2012-01-14T11:46:51.732Z163. Great Central, Wilmslow Road
Great Central, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
A Wetherspoons. In student land. The result is a smattering of young outsiders amongst the cheap beer-seeking local old boys and scallies. An interesting choice on the bar of this busy new-build boozer, but sadly the first couple of pints we had were cloudy - although the Okells Saison may have meant to be like that granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-67135804746252607762011-11-06T10:07:00.005Z2012-01-14T11:45:53.366Z162. Sir Joseph Whitworth, Wilmslow RoadSir Joseph Whitworth, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield. (c) Hydes.
We had reasonable hopes for this one, the old Cheshire Cat in the student heartland of Fallowfield. It was taken over by Hydes Brewery earlier this year and reopened in August, so we looked forward to a good pint in smartened up surroundings. Surprisingly, not one Hydes ale was on sale - the bitter clip was turned round - and the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-36200210548245141222011-10-31T19:25:00.000Z2011-10-31T19:25:10.577ZBee Hive, Lower Broughton RoadBee Hive, Lower Broughton Road, Salford. (c) Mark Naylor at vimeo.
As mentioned in the Poets Corner entry, the Bee Hive was the smaller turreted pub that was absorbed into the Poets Corner by Greenall Whitley Brewery in 1974 [1]. The Bee Hive is first listed in 1863 and by the early twentieth century was owned by Groves & Whitnall, as shown in the above snap from the superb Salford Pubs The granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-51273157286087395792011-10-31T19:11:00.005Z2011-11-20T15:56:25.844ZRailway, Broughton RoadRailway, Broughton Road, Salford. (c) deltrems at flickr.
This closed old Salford boozer can be traced back to 1859 when beer retailer, John Scott, applied for a full licence to cater for passengers at nearby Pendleton Station. He detailed the 54 trains and 3,000 passengers a day that used the station, but unfortunately he was turned down, and the Railway held only a beer licence until the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-31578418852465124082011-10-30T17:48:00.003Z2011-10-31T21:31:52.478ZCastle, Kersal WayThe Castle, Kersal Way, Kersal. (c) kersalflats.
The brilliant Kersal Flats website pays homage to one of Manchester's (well, Salford's) most famous lost estates. Along with the likes of Manchester History, Ex-Hulme and the Manchester District Music Archive, it's one of the essential Manchester websites.
Kersal Flatsm before and after. (c) kersalflats.
Please visit the site to read about the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-84575720651634714872011-10-30T14:26:00.002Z2011-10-31T19:15:00.846ZMaypole, Ford LaneMaypole, Ford Lane, Salford, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr.
This fine-looking building still stands at the end of Ford Lane on the corner with Broughton Road. The Crown & Maypole Inn opened in 1825 and was shortened to the Maypole by 1850. In 1875 a new, grander Maypole was built next to the original two-storey pub, probably by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway who passed their Hindley and granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-75296732882929124572011-10-30T13:40:00.002Z2011-10-30T13:48:32.732ZArk Royal, Tavistock SquareArk Royal, Tavistock Square, Harpurhey, 2007. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr / Creatve Commons.
Situated on the edge of the grim Tavistock Square shops on Lathbury Road just off Rochdale Road in Harpurhey, the Ark Royal was another classic north Manchester estate pub. Although shown shuttered up in 2007 above, googlemaps now shows it as the Redemption Place church, retaining the pub signage. Alan granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-39267267373570919082011-10-27T16:39:00.001+01:002011-10-27T17:05:11.596+01:00Manchester Pub GuideFrom this months' Opening Times, this should be worth a purchase for anyone who's found themselves reading this blog:
Manchester Pub Guide. (c) Opening Times (read more back issues here).
THE twin cities of Manchester & Salford are the vibrant heart of a region with a population of 3 million and attracts 90 million visitors a year for leisure, tourism, sport and business. Like the city itself,granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-54352717839285346282011-10-26T19:42:00.005+01:002011-10-31T21:23:53.266ZGriffin, Lower Broughton RoadGriffin, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. (c) deltrems at flickr.
The Griffin was a huge pub on the corner of Great Cheetham Street West and Lower Broughton Road, sadly demolished in 2008 (and, as ever, replaced with... nothing). There are a number of photos at flickr from Eddie Manchester recording the demolition of this grand old pub. It doesn't look too bad here... or here. But... granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981527888991373948.post-2391097734247069912011-10-25T20:40:00.000+01:002011-10-25T20:40:16.547+01:00Clifford Hotel, Clifford StreetClifford Hotel, Clifford Street, 1960s. (c) Bob Potts [1].
Clifford Street used to run off Oxford Road, exactly where the brutally-modern University bridge briefly takes the main road into darkness through a tunnel. It ran parallel to Booth Street East to meet up with Upper Brook Street. Just a few doors down Clifford Street from Oxford Road on the right hand side, as shown below, stood the granatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551985686564886849noreply@blogger.com0