The Mile House was one of Manchester's very oldest pubs, dating back to 1731 and was 271 years old when it was sadly demolished in 2003. Shown here in 1966 and 1971 this traditional Boddington's house was once used as a makeshift morgue but was better known for its more recent links to the Irish community thanks to the last landlord, Tommy Gaffney (above). He served many Manchester mayors and their Dublin counterparts, as well as local celebrities such as Ricky Tomlinson, and famously thirsty Coronation Street stars, Phil Middlemiss and Bruce Jones. The Mile House was compulsory-purchased by the ever-respectful Manchester City Council to be replaced by a warehouse and retail complex [1]. The boozer once stood on North Street, Cheetham Hill, which is a continuation of Red Bank, and in place of the Mile House is this ugly rear of a Shopping Centre unit and a pub-sized piece of scrub land.
