Red Lion, Bolton Street

Former site of Red Lion, Bolton Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

Where Trinity Way crosses Chapel Street at this corner, Bolton Street (having branched north off Gore Street) used to meet Chapel Street.  On this corner was the Red Lion, named after the Red Lion which used to stand on Market Street in Manchester that was lost due to street widening in 1821 [1].  The tenant of the Mancunian Red Lion, Laura Knight, came to Salford and took over and family member Nancy named the newly built pub, opening in 1823.  Interestingly, the pub is named "The Red Lion PH and Excise Office" on the 1848 map and next door on Chapel Street is the Letter Receiving Office, giving some insight into the important role that the Red Lion played in mid-1800s Salford [1].  Across the road from the Red Lion was Bolton Street Baths, and a few yards down the street towards the railway line, New Bailey Prison and the River Irwell was the "New Jerusalem Temple  (Swedenborgian)".  The Red Lion was a Walkers & Homfray house in the 1950s then Wilsons Brewery had it in the '60s.  A compulsary purchase order for the creation of the Mancunian Way-Trinity Way inner ring road led to its demolition in 1978 [2].  Not to be confused with the Red Lion / Raven Hotel at the bottom end of Chapel Street, this Red Lion was a working man's Wilsons pub with a long, horseshoe-shaped bar.  On offer was Wilsons bitter and mild from beer engines plus the usual Guinness as well as Watney's Red keg [3].

1. New Bailey & Ordsall Lane 1848, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009).
2. Salford Pubs - Part One: The Old Town, including Chapel Street, Greengate and the Adelphi, Neil Richardson (2003).
3. The Manchester Pub Guide, Manchester & Salford City Centres (1975).

Ladyman's Hotel / Commercial Hotel, Bridge Street

Ladyman's Hotel, Bridge Street, extract from Manchester As It Is, Benjamin Love [1].

This hotel was half way down Bridge Street on the left hand side from Deansgate (see map at ManchesterHistory [1]).  Originally the Ladyman's Hotel, several societies of Victorian Manchester used to meet here, including the Choral and Harmonic Society who held their concerts and annual ball, and the rather seedy-sounding Gentleman's Glee Club.  However, the dilapidated state of the main room at the Ladyman, partly caused by a fire, caused the Gentleman's Club to remove to the Clarence Hotel and it eventually ended up at the Albion Club [2].  The hotel finished its time as the Commercial Hotel under John Hayward in the mid-1800s [3].  After its closure the hotel became the London Music Hall, then the Queen's Theatre after a fire and rebuild, and finally the Royal Amphitheature and Circus.  This itself was demolished around 1911 [4] and now the Masonic Hall stands in its place.

Queen's Theatre, former Ladyman's / Commercial Hotel. (c) ManchesterHistory.net [1].

1. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/gone/queensbridge.html.

2. Manchester as it is, Benjamin Love (1839).
3. Manchester City Centre 1894, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008)
4. www.arthurlloyd.co.uk.

Mendel's Hotel, Bridge Street

Former location of Mendel's Hotel, Bridge Street. (c) googlemaps.

Mendel's Hotel (named after proprietor, the father of Sam Mendel) on Bridge Street was on this corner of Dolefield in the early part of the 1800s.  Where today we see the Manchester Civil Justice Centre in the background, two hundred years ago there was a similar building of justice adjacent to Mendel's Hotel - the Police Court [1].  Mendel's opened in anticipation of increased footfall from passengers travelling between Market Street and the Liverpool Road Bus (stagecoach) station, as Bridge Street was on the main thoroughfare between these two transport hubs.  However, custom never lived up to expectation and it was closed, being occupied as a Children's Hospital, and then by a furnishing company [1].  By 1849 it was a nondescript carpet warehouse [2]. 

Mendel's Hotel, Bridge Street, extract from Manchester As It Is, Benjamin Love [3].

1. Manchester Notes and Queries, Ed. J. H. Nodal (1878).
2. Manchester City Centre 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).
3. Manchester as it is, Benjamin Love (1839).

Higher Turk's Head, Shudehill

Former location of Higher Turk's Head, Shudehill. (c) googlemaps.

The Lower Turk's Head on Shudehill is one of Manchester's most distinctive closed pubs, as thankfully it appears to be being kept in good nick while it waits to be sold and either reopen as a pub, or, more likely, become retail or flats.  Further up Shudehill on the other side, past Hanover Street, was the Higher Turks Head, run by William Pilling in 1848 [1].  It was four doors up from Hanover Street which puts its old location in the right hand side of the Premier Convenience Store shown above (on the left is the side of the Nosh restaurant, formerly Smithfields / New Smithfield).

1. Manchester (New Cross) 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009). 

St Michael's Tavern, Blakeley (Dantzic) Street

Former location of St Michaels Tavern, Dantzic (Blakeley) Street. (c) googlemaps.

This corner of the top end of Dantzic Street and the bottom of Angel Street is known as St Michael's Square on modern maps, named after the church that used to stand near here.  The St Michael's Tavern took the name of the church, on the corner of what was then Blakeley Street.  The CIS Tower can be seen in the background, as can the flats on Angel Street on the left; the Angel / Beer House is just out of shot.  In the coming years this corner may see much more traffic than it does today, as the plan is divert some of the inner ring road away from Miller Street and up Corporation Street and Angel Street as part of the Co-Op Complex masterplan which has already seen off the Crown & Cushion.  

St. Michael's Flags, some time in the 1970s or '80s. (c) TBC.

The church also gave its name to the St Michael's Flags, the mass burial grounds that were the resting place of so many of the city's poor in the burgeoning days of the Industrial Revolution.  The council have grassed over St Michael's Flags in recent years and now Angel Meadow Park is a popular inner city park.  I suppose many of the dog walkers and picnicking youngsters that frequent the park are unaware that beneath their feet lie the remains of thousands (which, it's rumoured, used to sometimes poke up from between the flags .

1. Manchester New Cross 1949, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009).

Saddle Inn, Blackfriars Street

Former location of Saddle Inn, Blackfriars Street. (c) googlemaps.

On the opposite corner to the sadly closed Black Lion (far right, above) is an empty plot where the Saddle Inn once stood on the corner of Blackfriars Street and Chapel Street.  Diagonally opposite the Saddle Inn, and opposite the Black Lion, is the Salford Trinity Church, in front of which used to be the Flat Iron Fish, Fruit & Vegetable Market [1].

Manchester Victoria 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009).

Crown & Cushion 1741-2011

Crown & Cushion, Corporation Street. (c) MEN.

The rumours were true.  The Crown & Cushion - Manchester's oldest continually licensed premises - has closed its doors for good after 270 years.

Last orders for historic city centre pub set to be demolished for a roundabout

Crown & Cushion, Corporation Street. (c) Crown & Cusion Facebook.

Broosters, Piccadilly

Broosters, Piccadilly. (c) www.soul-source.co.uk.

Broosters on Piccadilly was a bar and club from the early '80s.  Its address on Piccadilly as listed on this Northern Soul All Dayer flyer on the Soul Source website suggests it would have been near to where the Piccadilly Tavern is today.

1. www.soul-source.co.uk.

Continental, Oxford Road

Efthimious Michael. (c) Manchester Evening News.

The owner of the original Conti Club, the Continental, on Oxford Road, Efthimous Michael, sadly passed away this week.  Michael ran the Conti for more than 50 years, firstly helping his Greek-Cypriot uncle run the club in 1946 after the serving in war.  By 1965, Michael and his brother Andrew had taken over and ran the Oxford Road club.  The original Continental was famous for its student and doctors and nurses nights, due to its proximity to St Mary's Hospital.  The club moved / expanded (were the Conti and the New Continental open at the same time in the 1980s?) to Harter Street in the late 1960s and the New Continental continued under the stewardship of Michael until its closure in 2001 [1].

1. http://menmedia.co.uk.

Pickwick, Brook Street

Pickwick, Brook Street, 1951. (c) Bob Potts [1].

The Pickwick was another pub, like its neighbour a few doors up (Upper) Brook Street, the Royal Oak Inn, that was lost in 1965 due to redevelopments [1].  Named after the Dicken's novel, The Pickwick was also a Wilson's house that was a door or two away from Grosvenor Street, so its location would have been where the blanked whitewashed building is in the below shot.

Former location of Pickwick, Upper Brook Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Royal Oak, Brook Street

The Royal Oak Inn was on the corner of Boundary Street East and Brook Street, as seen here and here as a Wilson's house in 1959 but it closed in 1965 [1].  The reason for this is evident; (Upper) Brook Street is now pretty unrecognisable due to redevelopment and the site of the old Royal Oak Inn was on the left in the below shot, now no more than an access road for the University's Materials Science Centre.

Former location of Royal Oak Inn, Upper Brook Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Stage & Radio Club / Senator / Wetherbys / Cuba Café, Port Street

Stage & Radio Club, Port Street, 1966. (c) Manchester Libraries hosted at Facebook.

The Stage & Radio Club is shown above in 1966, listed as Dean Street, just off Newton Street and Port Street.  The sign says "Cunninghams Ales" and later in the '70s it may be been the Senator, while in the '80s it was Wetherby's under Tony Millward (named after the racecourse).  These days the venue is Cuba Café, a quirky little late night salsa club which we've used for a late drink in the past, as well as attending a few decent parties.  In early 2011, the Port Street Beer House from the people at Common (one of the Northern Quarter's finer bars) is opening in this little block, between the Crown & Anchor and Cuba Café, and it promises to be a belting addition to a rather jaded area of town...

Cuba Café, Port Street, formerly Stage & Radio Club. (c) googlemaps.

Websites:  www.cubacafe.co.uk and http://portstreetbeerhouse.co.uk.

Hunting Lodge, Oxford Street

Former location of Hunting Lodge, Oxford Road. (c) googlemaps.

The Hunting Lodge opened in 1971 at corner of Oxford Road and Hulme Street.  It was something of an informal club as it wasn't open during the day but Margaret Emmot at the Manchester District Music Archive remembers "frequenting the Hunting Lodge many times in the '70s and early '80s.  Stairs led you up to a large room with a bar, pool table, dart board and football table.  Don't recall seeing any live bands there just a jukebox in the corner" [2].  This great shot of Oxford Road from the 1960s doesn't quite show the place.  The Hunting Lodge closed at some point in the late '80s, and is now Cotswold outdoor clothing shop, as shown below.

Former location of Hunting Lodge, Oxford Road. (c) googlemaps.

The 1975 guide mentions the gaudy neon Watney's Red sign that used to light up the street outside.  Inside were jukeboxes, TV table tennis, a colour TV and a piano.  The ground floor bar served Watney's and Wilson's beers, while there was a restaurant on the first floor with a night club / disco above that [3].  

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

2. www.mdmarchive.co.uk.
3. The Manchester Pub Guide, Manchester & Salford City Centres (1975).

Bundle of Sticks, Boundary Street East

Former location of Bundle of Sticks, Boundary Street East. (c) googlemaps.

The Bundle of Sticks beerhouse was listed at 21 Boundary Street East opposite the Kings Arms in the 1871 census.  When the licencee, Sarah Mellor, was refused a beer licence in 1876, the Bundle of Sticks closed for good but happily its name lived on as regulars took both their trade and the nickname over the road to the Kings Arms [1].  Part of the beerhouse was incorporated into the Steam Brewery building, which is now the closed Scubar, previously the Old Steam Brewery and Green McNally's, on York Street.

Scubar, York Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlon-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Kings Arms, Boundary Street East

Kings Arms, Boundary Street East, 1950s. (c) Bob Potts [1].

The Kings Arms closed in 1966 on Boundary Street East, a street which used to run parallel to Grosvenor Street, adjacent to the Aquatic Centre on Oxford Road and leading to the where the now closed Scubar sits on York Street.  Pictured above in the 1950s (Oxford Road in the background), the Kings Arms at No.58 was nicknamed the Bundle of Sticks, which stems from the old beerhouse which used to stand across the street but was refused a beer licence in the late 1800s; it's thought that regulars from the Bundle of Sticks then took their trade to the Kings Arms, and with it, the nickname.  Another possible explanation could be that it comes from the Friendly Society which used to meet in the Kings Arms - their 'Unity' sign was a bundle of sticks fastened together with the motto 'Unity Is Strength' [1].

Former Boundary Street East. (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Town Hall Tavern, Jenkinson Street

Approximate former site of Town Hall Tavern, Jenskinson Street. (c) googlemaps.

Not be be confused with the ever-popular Town Hall Tavern on Tib Lane in the city centre, this Town Hall Tavern was named after the Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall on Cavendish Street (as seen here in 1972).  Jenkinson Street is (still, just about, as a pedestrianised route) a short street running behind here which then also veers off to the left - seen here in 1956 and 1959.  The Town Hall Tavern was a Joseph Holt house directly behind the main town hall [1] so its location may have been roughly where the building is behind the aerial walkway.  This painting from 1894 shows the grandeur of this area of town in Victorian times compared to today as shown below; it was probably around this time the Town Hall Tavern was lost.

Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Paragon Inn, Oxford Road

Former location of Paragon Inn, Oxford Road. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.

The Paragon Inn at 59 Oxford Road was a Groves & Whitnall house that closed in 1967 to make way for the BBC building [1].  It stood a short distance opposite and before Chester Street, so would have been between the two trees in the above shot.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Aunty's Bar, Oxford Road

Aunt's Bar, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 1966. (c) Bob Potts [1].

A couple of doors down from the Clarendon Inn was Aunty's Bar, pictured above in 1966, around the time that the Mancunian Way opened, as seen in the distance.  Aunty's Bar was just one of the many pubs around this part of Oxford Road that were lost in 1969 when the Manchester Metropolitan University expanded.  The premises was previously known as Burton Ale Stores before 1931, which sounds like more of an off-trade place than a pub.  From 1931-1969 as Aunty's Bar it was a Thomas Salt, Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton and Tetley's house [2].

Aunty's Bar was known as the Irish Labour Exchange by locals, as Irishmen could obtain employment there off the cuff with Irish building trade sub-contractors.  While welcoming to the Irish, the permanent handwritten "No Women" sign between the inner doors [2] hinted at a less than tolerant attitude in here!  The former location of Aunty's Bar was where this MMU building stands.

Former location of Aunty's Bar, Oxford Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.

1. The Old Pubs of Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1984).
2. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Artillery Arms, Lower Chatham Street

Artillery Arms, Lower Chatham Street, 1965. (c) Bob Potts [1].

The Artillery Arms was a classic-looking Threllfalls house on the corner of Lower Chatham Street and Hadfield Street (now gone) just off Cavendish Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock.  Its licence was suspended in 1969 and was the last of the pubs on Lower Chatham Street to be demolished to make way for the University's expansion.  The 1881 census shows that James Byrom Royle and his wife Margaret kept the Artillery Arms at 62-64 Lower Chatham Street; the Royle family had the pub until 1890 [1].  These days a block of student accommodation sits on the former site of the Artillery Arms, opposite the ugly modern St. Augustine's RC Church.

Former location of Artillery Arms, Lower Chatham Street (left). (c) googlemaps.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

City of ghosts

"Manchester is not a city of ghosts.  Unromantic as ever, it quickly moves on from the past.  

There is no museum in the city celebrating Karl Marx, who lived with Engels in the city while they researched Das Kapital, and changed the history of the world; there is no museum for Alan Turing, who invented the computer in the city; most people know nothing of the city's radical past or the suffragettes; it's all been obliterated and bulldozed away like most of the Victorian city.

The past means nothing in the world's first modern city."

(c) John Robb.


The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996, John Robb (2009).

New York New York, Cross Street

New York New York (not to be confused with the gay pub on Bloom Street) was an American style diner and bar on Cross Street in the late 1970s.  The place is described by farahj on the Manchester District Music Archive as having "waiters on roller-skates and it was the closest thing to the Big Apple that many of us got!  Great atmosphere... not so sure about the food!" [1].

1. www.mdmarchive.co.uk.

Dive Bar / Azura Bar, Portland Street

Former location of Dive Bar, Portland Street (below Portland Bars). (c) blueskies at MDMA.

The Dive Bar was below the old Portland Bars pub on Mosely Street, part of the Piccadilly Plaza hotel complex.  Whereas the Portland Bars was a more traditional pub, the Dive Bar was a bit of a punks hangout, despite doing steak dinners (in the US, dive bars are of course the typical basement bar drunkard's hangouts).  The bouncers on the door at the Dive Bar were apparently a couple of off-duty policemen who'd flash their warrant card to break up trouble [1].  Dive Bar opened in the 1960s and had a stint as Azura Bar, but not sure if it lasted as long as the upstairs pub, which only closed when the hotel complex was redeveloped in the '90s.

1. www.mdmarchive.co.uk.

Hope & Anchor, Water Street

Former location of Hope & Anchor, Water Street. (c) googlemaps.

The Hope & Anchor in Water Street was demolished in 1838 to make way for the construction of the River Irwell end of the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal (we were lucky enough to take a guided tour of the Great Northern Warehouse end of these tunnels recently).  According to a scan of the 1835 plan of this end of the canal, the pub was approximately where the entrance to the old Granada Studio Tours is today [1].  The licence of this Hope & Anchor was transferred to a hotel near Victoria Station which was renamed the Hope & Anchor, Cathedral Yard [1].

1. Beneath Manchester, Keith Warrender (2009).

Flying Horse, Hunts Bank

Probable former location of Flying Horse, Hunts Bank. (c) googlemaps.

The Flying Horse was built on the 26 yards of new roadway that were created in 1836 by the building of the improved route through Hunts Bank.  It cost the princely sum of £10 to build the pub.  Its location is described as between on the stretch of Hunts Bank between the Cathedral and where Victoria Station would go on to be built near Hunts Bank Bridge (which now carried the railway lines [1] - so probably along the stretch marked as Victoria Street on the above map.  The Flying Horse looks like it was a short-lived pub as there is no mention of it on the 1849 map and could well have made way for the larger Palatine Hotel which was built in 1843 to cater for Victoria Station.

1. Beneath Manchester, Keith Warrender (2009).

Von Blucher, Cateaton Street

Victoria Arches / Cathedral Arches / Steps. (c) geograph.

The Victoria Arches (or Cathedral Arches / Steps) beneath Victoria Street leading to the River Irwell at Hunts Banks are now well known thanks to urban explorers and underground experts such as Keith Warrender [1].  

Victoria Arches / Cathedral Arches / Steps. (c) I_glass at flickr / urban-photography.co.uk.

When the Arches were being constructed as part of the creation of Hunts Bank during 1838-1840, one of the last works was to adjust the road level of Cateaton Street and change what was a sloping entrance to the Arches into a stepped entrance.  In 1842, the lease held by the Von Blucher public house expired which enabled the Manchester Improvement Committee to purchase the pub and knock it down to improve the line of the street [1].  

Possible former location of Von Blucher, Cateaton Street. (c) googlemaps.

As such, the Von Blucher - named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher who fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 - isn't recorded on any of the 1849 maps and their Slater's Directory extracts.  Its precise location was probably on the corner of Cateaton Street where the building on the right in the above shot is.  The Arches can be seen below Cathedral Approach in the centre and left - all were bricked up long ago but that's not stopped explorers who have found other means of gaining entrance to the hidden labyrinth below.

1. Below Manchester, Keith Warrender (2009).

Fishermens Hut, Chapel Street

 

Fishermens Hut, Chapel Street, Salford, 1870s. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

Across Hatton Court from the larger Old Ship / Ship Hotel on Chapel Street was the Fishermens Hut beerhouse, on the right in the above photo from the 1870s.  It was an old timber framed building with lath and plaster walls divided into five premises of which one was the beerhouse.  Originally a butchers, the first licensees of the Fishermens Hut were Mary then Elizabeth Copley until 1863.  Thomas Wood had it until the 1880s and the last licensee was Thomas Baxter who kept the beerhouse until it was pulled down with its adjoining shops in 1894 [1].

1. Salford Pubs Part One: The Old town, including Chapel Street, Greengate and the Adelphi, Neil Richardson (2003).

Old Ship, Chapel Street

Old Ship Hotel, Chapel Street, Salford. (c) deltrems at flickr..

Seen here in 1962 as a rather plain looking Boddingtons house, the Old Ship Hotel is another of Chapel Street's lost pubs.  This one was knocked down relatively recently in 1999 [1] along with the adjoining building which abutted the larger offices/warehouse to the right in the above photo.  Just out of shot off to the right is the Black Lion, sadly closed for the time being.


Former site of Old Ship Hotel, Chapel Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

It looks like the Old Ship was demolished to make way for the access road for the huge "Men Arena / Printworks Premier Inn" on Victoria Bridge Street.   The proximity of this part of Salford to the centre of Manchester is evidenced by the Wheel and Arndale Centre in the background behind the Premier Inn, below.

Former site of Old Ship Hotel, Chapel Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

The Old Ship, or the Lower Ship as it was once known, can be traced back to licensee Robert Fairbrother in the 1760s.  Further licensees were Thomas then Alice Schofield until 1805, and the Hatton family until about 1837, who gave their name to the court at the side of the pub.  The photo from the 1870s shows the three-storey pub that was rebuilt in the early 1900s to the same specifications.  Peter Leech, the Ainsworths and Gibsons ran the Ship, before it was destroyed by the Christmas Blitz of 1940 and the two-storey Boddingtons pub we see above was rebuilt in the mid-1950s [1].

The Ship, Chapel Street, Salford, 1870s. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

1. Salford Pubs Part One: The Old town, including Chapel Street, Greengate and the Adelphi, Neil Richardson (2003).

Crown, Blackfriars Street

Crown, Blackfriars Street. (c) deltrems at flickr.

The Crown on Blackfriars Street has been threatening to reopen for a few years now, and we believe it's still slated to open its doors once again in 2011 - though whether or not as a pub is unknown.  The Crown dates back to the early 19th century and has been Grade II listed since 1980, due to features such as its Welsh slate roof, tiled frontage and arched doorways [1].
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Crown, Blackfriars Street. (c) Tim Green aka atoach at flickr.

In its last incarnation the Crown Hotel, before that simply the Crown then the Crown Tavern, it is actually situated just across the River Irwell, over Blackfriars Bridge into Salford.


Crown, Blackfriars Street. (c) Franciscus51 at flickr.

1. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.

140. Golftorium, Ducie Street

Golftorium, Ducie Street. (c) golftorium.

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Sat a little way up Ducie Street from Piccadilly and just before the Jolly Angler is the Golftorium Bar and indoor golf experience.  Here you can play most of the worlds' courses, from the comfort of the bar, with beer as well and without wandering a yard!  Is it accurate?  In truth, probably not.  But it's good fun to while away an hour or two in an afternoon before heading out for a session.

Golftorium, Ducie Street. (c) golftorium.

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It was quiet when we arrived but this was a Monday afternoon, and so was to be expected.  No real ale as you would expect, so Guinness was the drink of choice and as befits bars of this ilk it was a tad pricey.  You don't have to play golf, you can just have a drink and its canal side location would make it nice in summer I suspect.  Similarly, even non-players can watch with their pints as their mates have a go.  Worth a try, albeit I don't think I'll be becoming a member or anything.

Website:  www.golftorium.com.

Goose Inn, Exchange Street

Former location of Goose Inn, St Anne's Square (Exchange Street). (c) googlemaps.

Today's Exchange Theatre on St Anne's Square is named after Exchange Street which used to connect St Anne's Square with Market Street in the 1700-1800s.  The Goose Inn stood near to the Dog Inn, opposite the Exchange Coffee House, part of the old Manchester Subscription Library at The Exchange on Market Street.  Like the Dog Inn, the Goose Inn faced onto a dangerous stretch of road where vehicles would endanger pedestrians ("Dangerous Corner"), so people would often hide in the doorway of the Goose Inn when a coach or carriage passed [1].

Collectanea relating to Manchester and its Neighbourhood. (c) google [1].

1. Collectanea relating to Manchester and its Neighbourhood, John Harland (1867).

Dog Inn, Exchange Street

Former location of Dog Inn, St Anne's Square (Exchange Street). (c) googlemaps.

The short stretch of pedestrianised street that connects St Anne's Square to Market Street today is just an extension of the Square.  In the 1700-1880s it was Exchange Street (the Exchange Theatre named thereafter), and the Dog Inn stood along here somewhere in the 1700s.  In those times Exchange Street was a dangerous thoroughfare, with only a narrow pathway for pedestrians who struggled to avoid speeding carriages.  Just before the Dog Inn was a retreat built into the wall for people to duck into.  Such was the danger here that the passage was known as "Dangerous Corner" [1].  

1. Collectanea relating to Manchester and its Neighbourhood, John Harland (1867).