Salisbury Hotel, Trafford Road, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].
The Salisbury Hotel was a huge Groves & Whitnall house built in about 1895 at a cost of £5,000 at the entrance to the docks on Trafford Road, originally as a commercial hotel for the ship canal merchants. The Salisbury failed to attract the class of custom intended, as was described as being used by "land sharks, crimps, sailors' robbers and disorderly women" who brawled committed "acts of indecency" (as the brewery hadn't built enough toilets). In more recent times the Salisbury passed to Greenall Whitley in the 1960s but closed in early 1980 after a fire. A renovation saw it reopen in August that year, but it closed for good in 1985 and was demolished the following year [2].
Salisbury Hotel, Trafford Road, Ordsall. (c) Neil Richardson [2].
2. Salford Pubs Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).
