Ram, Oldham Road

The Ram, Oldham Road, Miles Platting. (c) Manchester Local Image Collection.  
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The Ram was an estate-style Tetley's pub built on the site of an original Ram, which stood next to the Empress Electric Theatre on the main Oldham Road, Miles Platting.  Like its earlier incarnation, the Ram was practically built onto the side of the Empress.

The Ram, Oldham Road, Miles Platting. 
(c) Manchester Local Image Collection.  
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The new Ram was built in the late 1960s and is pictured at the archives in the late '60s and 1970.  The new Ram didn't last too long and was replaced by a petrol station, which itself has been more recently erased from the landscape along with the Empress.

Former location of the Ram, Oldham Road (left). (c) Moston & Harpurhey Facebook [2].

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Ram, Oldham Road

Ram, Oldham Road, Miles Platting. (c) Manchester Local Image Collection. Click here to view full image [1].

The original Ram was next door to the Empress Electric Theatre on Oldham Road in Miles Platting.  While the Grade II-listed Empress (see the 1912 plans, and in 1961) was sadly knocked down in 2006 after a mysterious fire, the Ram was lost in the 1960s. 

 

Empress, Oldham Road. (c) HistoryMe [1].

The Tetley's house, the Ram, is seen here in 1961, actually attached to the Empress.  A replacement estate pub-style Ram was built on the same Oldham Road site in the 1960s, but this is also long-gone - as is the distinctive Unitarian Chapel a few doors up the road, lost in 2009.

Former location of the Ram, Oldham Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.

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