Former Kildakin, St Kilda's Drive, Cheetham. (c) googlemaps.
The Kildakin was a 1960-70s new build estate pub which unofficially gave its name to the Kildakin Estate in north Cheetham, off Cheetham Hill Road just inside the Salford city boundary. The name comes from a play on words - a kilderkin is a beer barrel twice the volume of a firkin. Shown here in 1977 surrounded by functional low-storey council flats, in 1990 it was a Boddingtons house with the flats still there. An amusing story tells of how Piccadilly Radio once held a Football Roadshow in the Kildakin vault in the late '70s. The kids off the estate "were like a plague of locusts nicking all the tat they bought with them - T-shirts, car stickers, that kind of crap [1]." As shown above, the estate has gone, to be replaced by nicer detached and semis. Meanwhile, the old Kildakin lives on as someone's house, unmistakably an old estate boozer.
Former Kildakin, St Kilda's Drive, Cheetham. (c) googlemaps.
