House That Jack Built / Sports, Bury New Road

Sports / House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, Higher Broughton, 1989. By Stanley Horrocks, with kind permission and (c) Rose Horrocks. 

The House That Jack Built was a very distinctive 1970s estate pub, opening in 1975 at the newly-built Newbury Place shopping centre off Bury New Road in Higher Broughton.  

House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, 2003. By Stanley Horrocks, with kind permission and (c) Rose Horrocks. 

It was described in the Manchester Evening News at the time as "something entirely different" - a maze of bars, passages and alcoves with an indoor tree house [1]!

House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, 1990. (c) deltrems at flickr.

'Deltrems' who photographed the House That Jack Built in 1990, top, remembers the stumpy pool cues that were required due to the tiny pool room [2].


House That Jack Built, Bury New Road. (c) Paul Wilson with posthumous permission.

The pub was renamed 'Sports' for a time, then Jacks bar.


House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, 1992. By Stanley Horrocks, with kind permission and (c) Rose Horrocks. 

The pub's first licensee was, appropriately, Jack Moon, although the final landlord had his licence revoked in 2004 due to unlicensed gambling and illegal drink [3].


House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, 1990. By Stanley Horrocks, with kind permission and (c) Rose Horrocks. 

Demolition followed in 2005 (the flats behind had gone too).


House That Jack Built, Bury New Road, 1992. By Stanley Horrocks, with kind permission and (c) Rose Horrocks. 

1. Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).

2. www.flickr.com/photos/deltrems/2678824769/. 

3. http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/125/125178_doomed_pub_closes.html.