Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Road

Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Road, Cheetham. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr.

This one is north of the city centre in Cheetham, north of Strangeways on the corner of Waterloo Road, Elizabeth Street and Alderglen Road. However, the Waterloo Hotel is such an impressive and imposing building, we had to feature it.  Not to mention the fact that there appears to be no history of the place lurking online or in our collection of references.  

Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Road, Cheetham. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr.

These great photos from Gene Hunt taken in 2008 suggest that the hotel can't have closed that long ago, and the attached off licence is still going.  The once elegant sign proclaiming "Brewers of Quality Fine Ales and Lagers" had a Foster's stuck crudely over the "Vaux", hinting at a deterioration in beer quality in the Waterloo's death throes.  Any help on the history of the Waterloo Hotel gratefully received...

Waterloo Hotel, Waterloo Road, Cheetham. (c) Gene Hunt at flickr.

Duke of Lancaster Arms, East Market Street

Former location of the Duke of Lancaster, East Market Street. (c) googlemaps.

Opposite the New Oxford and just past the Salford Magistrates Court, the old Town Hall, is an ugly, modern white building, apparently a telephone exchange.  On this corner of Browning Street and East Market Street was the Duke of Lancaster Arms, also referred to as the Duchy Arms.  The street was named after the market that was held behind the Town Hall and the Duke of Lancaster was established as a market pub by 1822.  When it was advertised in the 1850s, the pub was described as having a bar, sitting rooms, club room, seven bedrooms, a seven-barrel brewery and a large yard for stabling 20 horses.  In the early 1900s it was a Kays Atlas Brewery house then Stockport's Robinson's took it in 1929.  The Duke of Lancaster survived war damage and lasted until the mid-1960s when it was included in the Trinity No.6 clearance scheme [1].

Former location of Duke of Lancaster, East Market Street (white building). (c) googlemaps.

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

Crown Inn, St Stephen Street

Former location of Crown Inn, St Stephen Street. (c) googlemaps.

Around the back of the grand old Salford Cinema - also known as the Rex Cinema, and now reduced to the status of a new age church - is the short and still cobbled St Mary's Street.  On this corner of St Stephen Street used to stand the Crown Inn beerhouse, long lost to modern flats.  The earliest mention of the Crown Inn was in 1863 under licensee Hugh George and the last tenant was Matthew Brennan in 1892, when the pub was a Groves & Whitnall house.  By 1908 the brewster sessions ruled that the Crown was badly lit and that trade was "practically at a standstill".  By this time Brennan was a widower in his 70s and the brewery - "with utmost consideration" - worried that if the pub was closed the Crimean war veteran would be sent to the workhouse.  In any case, Brennan passed away that year and the pub closed, became a confectioner's shop and was the last building to go before the area, complete with St Stephen's school and church a few yards up the road, was flattened for redevelopment [1].

Salford Cinema, Chapel Street. (c) googlemaps.

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

Adelphi Hotel, Piccadilly

Former Adelphi Hotel, Newton Street (formerly Port Street). (c) googlemaps.

In the 1800s the lower part of today's Newton Street was actually a continuation of Port Street and on the corner with Piccadilly was the Adelphi Hotel [1].  Also facing onto Back Piccadilly, the Adelphi was one of Manchester's first railway hotels, but unlike its neighbour, the Queens Hotel opposite, the Adelphi was an expensive failure and closed in 1845, just 5 years after being built [2].

Adelphi Hotel, Piccadilly. (c) Alan Godfrey Maps [1].

The Adelphi was still in use until very recently as Lloyds Bank [2], and in the last few years as Massimo clothing outlet, which has also closed as shown in the googlemaps shots.  The Piccadilly Tavern is next door to the old Adelphi Hotel.


Former Adelphi Hotel, Piccadilly. (c) googlemaps.

1. Manchester (Piccadilly) 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009).
2. http://www.northmanchester.net/content/view/83/2/.

Lord Nelson's final stand

Lord Nelson, Newton Street, demolished May-June 2011. (c) Pubs of Manchester. 

The Lord Nelson on Newton Street is no more.  Few tears will be shed for the loss of a public house that barely lived up to the name in its final few decades, but I'm sure some of the Ancoats locals were fond of the place.  Indeed, as we snapped it mid-demolition we noticed a few people had scrawled messages on the pub's crumbling walls condemning the decision to pull down what was a structurally sound and rather impressive building.  This little unheralded piece of Manchester history will no doubt be replaced by badly constructed flats or nondescript offices.  Lord Nelson, RIP.

Lord Nelson, Newton Street. (c) googlemaps.

Ostrich, Wharf Street

Wharf Street, former location of the Ostrich. (c) mikgy at manchester-forum.

The Ostrich opened on Wharf Street in the 1820s and was described in 1854 as being in "an extraordinarily populous neighbourhood, surrounded by workshops where hundreds of the best paid workmen are regularly employed...".  The famous police chief of the time, James Caminada, commented on the Ostrich pub in 1869: "Every weekend it was customary for a considerable number of thieves to frequent this house, and during the racing season it was the resort of numerous travelling gangs. [1]" The 1863 and '73 Directories shows that Henry Rolley was at the Ostrich [2], and around this time the pub manager, "John", was sacked and subsequently found to be in league with a local crook and was sent down for seven years [1].    

Former location of Wharf Street, Ancoats. (c) googlemaps.

The Ostrich is seen here in 1896 as a fine looking public house, but by 1920 the map in The Old Pubs of Ancoats shows no such pub on the street.  Wharf Street was just north of, and ran parallel to, Great Ancoats Street off (Old) Mill Street, linking up with Little Newton Street.  Although it has long-been lost to the Cardroom Estate and Ancoats Retail Park, the route of Wharf Street was just south of where Cardroom Road is today.  This puts it approximately at the corner of the Argos store as shown above.

1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).
2. www.manchester-forum.co.uk/index.php/topic,5657.0.html.

Star Inn / Old Trafford Inn, Chester Road

Former location of Star Inn / Old Trafford Inn, Chester Road. (c) googlemaps.

Just a few doors down Chester Road from the Hulme Hall Inn was the Star Inn at No.206 Chester Road.  Formerly the Old Trafford Inn, the Star Inn closed in 1909 as an Empress pub.  The landlord moved to another Empress pub nearby, the Britannia Inn on City Road, which itself closed in 1919 [1].  I guess the Star Inn would have been roughly where indicated above, which is opposite the old but still standing Bull's Head.

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

Hulme Hall Inn, Chester Road

Former location of the Hulme Hall Inn, Chester Road. (c) googlemaps.

On this corner of Chester Road and Hulme Hall Road was the Hulme Hall Inn at No.194.  It stood until 1969 when it was demolished as a Groves & Whitnall house [1].  Not sure what or where Hulme Hall was...

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

Queens Arms, Honey Street

Queens Arms, Honey Street. (c) Scottyweb.

This Red Bank pub is one we regrettably missed before it closed its doors for seemingly the last time last year.  The Queens Arms has long been held in high regard amongst the real ale crowd and has been a fixture in the Good Beer Guide.  As recently as 2007 it was named the City Life Pub of the Year, as noted in December 2007's Opening Times from CAMRA.

Queens Arms article in Opening Times, 2007. (c) Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA.

Unfortunately, the Queens Arms was just a bit too far off the beaten track to pick up regular footfall, located up on Honey Street, Red Bank overlooking the north of the city centre from an industrial and depressed part of town.  The area's gradual regeneration as the "Green Quarter," including the hulking great Co-Op development, hasn't spared the only pub in the area.

Queens Arms, Honey Street. (c) Brewery History Society.

The Queens is a fine looking pub, the maroon and green tiling is that of the Empress Brewery, Old Trafford, as noted by the Brewery History Society [1], with more modern Theakstons signs a little out of place.  A superb photo kindly supplied by Alison shows the pub during its extension in 1987... it used to be half the place it is now...


Queens Arms, Honey Street, 1987. (c) Alison G.

The last few years of the pub saw changes of ownership and some closures, not to mention the apparently variable beer quality.  It looks like the last pint has been pulled at the Queens Arms, and one of Manchester's northern gems has gone the way of the Hat & Feathers, Pot of Beer and Crown & Cushion.

Queens Arms, Honey Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. www.breweryhistory.com/Defunct/Manchester.htm.

Eagle Inn, Regent Road

Former location of Eagle Inn, Regent Road. (c) Google 2013. View Larger Map.

The drive-thru at KFC next to the Grosvenor Casino on Regent Road is actually an old street called Calder Street, still marked on googlemaps.  On the casino corner used to stand the Eagle Inn, which backed onto the old Globe Works, the Mineral Waters part of the Groves & Whitnall Brewery.  Also recorded as the Eagle & Child, the pub opened in 1858 and became a Walker & Homfray house in the 1880s.  However, when Regent Road was widened at the turn of the century, the Eagle Inn was demolished.  This was not before a valiant attempt to keep the Eagle flying at nearby Crookell Street off Ordsall Lane.  Mr Homfray of the brewery submitted plans to the council for the rebuilt pub (below) and offered it to them for £2,500.  The council were against the idea and no new pub was built as the Eagle Inn was demolished in 1900 [1].

Plans for rebuilding the Eagle Inn, Crookell Street off Ordsall Lane. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

1. Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).

Regatta Inn, Regent Road

Former location of Regatta Inn, Regent Road. (c) googlemaps.

Adjacent to the old site of the more recently lost Sportsmans Tavern, the Regatta Inn was on the north side of Regent Road, just before the bridge over the River Irwell.  The beerhouse stood next to the Groves & Whitnall Brewery and was named on opening in 1845 after the first Manchester and Salford Regatta which took place on the Irwell in 1842.  The Regetta Inn was badly damaged in the Salford Blitz in December 1940 and never reopened as a pub, but did eventually become a restaurant for brewery employees 10 years later [1].  Today, the site of the old pub is still a restaurant of sorts; that of the Campanile Hotel.

1. Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).

Seven Stars, York Street

Former location of Seven Stars, York Street. (c) googlemaps.

It's difficult to imagine the how parts of Manchester that the newer main roads scythe through must have looked in the past.  So try to envisage a bustling backstreet Renshaw & Cardwell house, the Seven Stars, at this spot where the Mancunian Way ducks under the Chester Road roundabout.  Before the ringroad this spot was the intersection of York Street (the bottom end of the street just about survives today) and Silver Street (now Silvercroft Street).  The Seven Stars closed in 1964 as a Wilsons house [1].

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

Lord Napier, Great Jackson Street

Lord Napier, Great Jackson Street. (c) Kevin Gallagher at YouTube.

On this plot to the left of the modern building on Great Jackson Street was the Lord Napier public house.  The pub was only demolished in 1986 and was previously a Groves & Whitnall house, the Boilermakers Arms.  Just off the very top end of Chester Road (in the distance), the street that runs down the side of the office building is known as Silvercroft Street - simply Silver Street in the past - and on that corner used to be a chapel which would have been next door to the Lord Napier into the 1930s at least [1].

Former location of Lord Napier, Great Jackson Street. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.

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

Albion Inn, City Road

Former location of Albion Inn, City Road. (c) googlemaps.

Whereas there's still a City Road Inn on Albion Street, there used to be an Albion Inn on City Road.  In was on the south side of City Road at the bottom of the still mapped Owen Street (shown above intersecting with City Road), on the corner with Welcome Street (now beneath the Mancunian Way).  The Albion Inn closed in 1966 as a Peter Walker & Son brewery pub [1].

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

Victoria Hotel, City Road

Victoria Hotel, City Road, 1951. (c) Bob Potts [1].

Yet another old pub of Hulme to have been lost to the Mancunian Way, the Victoria Hotel was on the northern side of City Road between Crown Street and Great Jackson Street.  These streets all survive today in part, albeit some with slightly altered names - City Road is now City Road East-turning-into-Jackson Crescent, and Great Jackson Street is now Great Jackson Street-turning-into-Jackson Crescent.  The map below tries to explain that.

Former location of Victoria Hotel, City Road. (c) googlemaps.

When the Victoria Hotel closed in 1964 it had been a Manchester Brewery, Walker & Homfray and finally Wilsons house.  The exact spot of the old Victoria Hotel was just south of where the curved pedestrian walkway is over the Mancunian Way.

Former location of Victoria Hotel, City Road. (c) googlemaps.

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

New Millgate Hotel, Long Millgate

Former new Millgate Hotel, Long Millgate, (c) Manchester District Music Archive.

The New Millgate Hotel was next door to the Manchester Sports Guild (and Pendulum) on Long Millgate according to Lisa on Man Mates [1]. It could therefore have been this building on the right shown above - the green and while colour scheme may hint at a public house. Interestingly, the New Millgate Hotel's only mention is from a 1972 London Gazette in a list of liquidations, the registered office involved being next door to the Lass O'Gowrie on the other side of town.

New Millgate Hotel, Long Millgate. (c) London Gazette, 1972.

1. http://manmates.proboards.com.

Ivy Leaf / Willow Concert Inn, Chester Road

Former location of Ivy Leaf / Willow Concert Inn, Chester Road.

Another of Chester Road lost pubs, the Ivy Leaf closed down in 1966 having been a Cronshaws then Groves  & Whitnall house.  It was formerly the Willow Concert Inn as mentioned in The Manchester Guardian in 1872 [1].  The Ivy Leaf was on the corner of Chester Road and Bentinck Street, a street which does in fact still carry on to the right once behind the undergrowth shown in the above shot, looking down Chester Road towards Cornbrook.

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

Chester Road Inn, Chester Road

Former location of Chester Road Inn, Chester Road. (c) googlemaps.

Directly opposite the Egerton Arms, the Chester Road Inn was on the corner of Chester Road and Arundel Street.  It only closed in 1971 as a Groves & Whitnall house [1] and as the snap below shows, the pub would have had fine views of St. George's Church when it was still a house of worship.  The Chester Road Inn was on the left, now replaced by the bushes behind that driver's cab!

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

Cross Keys, Browne Street

Former location of the Cross Keys, Browne Street (down and left). (c) googlemaps.

This narrow road off Chapel Street is for access to the Lowry Hotel complex but is now known as Dearmans Place, the official address of the Lowry.  The googlemap shows it apparently turns into Brown Street, and in the distant past this was Browne Street.  About halfway down Browne Street on the left towards the River Irwell was the Cross Keys [1].

Former location of the Cross Keys, Browne Street. (c) googlemaps.

1. Manchester City Centre (1849), Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).

White Lion, Wood Street

Former location of the White Lion, Wood Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

Just over the River Irwell into Salford, Wood Street was parallel to Salford's Quay Street where the Sun was.  In fact Wood Street is still shown on googlemaps despite being now covered by the Lowry Hotel complex.  However, its pub, the White Lion which was in the middle of a row of terraced houses taking up the width of two properties, is long gone.  The recess in the building shown on the left, below, marks the direction of Wood Street and the White Lion was on the right where the building comes across [1].

Former location of the White Lion, Wood Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

1. Manchester City Centre 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).

Crown & Cushion and Ducie Bridge

Crown & Cushion, Corporation Street. (c) mr.cool at skyscrapercity.

The above photo was taken in mid-April as preparations are made to demolish the Crown & Cushion.  The title of the oldest licensed premises in Manchester now passes to the English Lounge or the Sawyers Arms, which are both recorded as being licensed in the 1760s.  A bit of better news though in this article from Manchester Confidential confirms what we suspected last year - the Ducie Bridge WAS bought by the Co-Op, who have given it a 5-year stay of execution.

"The firm decided to buy the pub because it sits within the 20 acres it is planning to regenerate at part of its NOMA development... it has agreed the new lease with landlord Dave Foran, who said there were ‘no plans’ past the five year agreement, despite the pub being left off several CGIs of how NOMA might look in the future.  “We had a letter from Admiral Taverns saying they’d sold the pub and we had 28 days to get out,” said Foran.  “But the Co-op approached me and said they wanted to keep it on under a lease. What happens after that, I don’t know, but they have no plans to demolish it. Not yet anyway.”...  “The Crown and Cushion is going but they’d have nothing to gain from taking the Ducie down,” he said. “Miller Street will be one-way, then new roads will go up the back of us into Angel Meadows."

Let's hope that the confirmation of the new ring road passing up Angel Street means the Angel / Beer House is safe from the duplicitous Co-Op and council.

Ducie Bridge, Corporation Street. (c) Manchester Confidential.

Egerton Arms, Chester Road

Egerton Arms, Chester Road, 1952. (c) Bob Potts [1].

Only around the corner from the Egerton Inn, the Egerton Arms on Chester Road was one of the first pubs in Hulme, listed in 1808 [1]. Shown above in 1952, it was on the corner of Chester Road and Hargreaves Street, which today is the blocked off Angela Street.  The grassy knoll marks the spot of the old Egerton Arms which closed in 1968 as a former Manchester Brewery, Walker & Homfrays and latterly Wilsons house [1].

Former location of Egerton Arms, Chester Road. (c) googlemaps.

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

Egerton Inn, Egerton Street

Former location of Egerton Inn, Egerton Street. (c) googlemaps.

One of the many great things about googlemaps is that it sometimes throws up old street names that are all-but lost in the name of progress.  One example is here where Egerton Street, now lost beneath the Mancunian Way, and Worsley Street, surrounded by offices, once met.  Today this spot is marked by the spaceship style Urban Splash rental suite, but in before all this the Egerton Inn sat on the corner of Egerton Street and Worsley Street.  The Hardy's house closed in 1967 [1].

Urban Splash, Egerton Street / Worsley Street. (c) sfp-mcr.

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

Wilton Arms, Ellesmere Street

Former location of Wilton Arms, Ellesmere Street. (c) googlemaps.

The view above is taken from the end of Ellesmere Street, around the back of St. George's Church, looking over the Mancunian Way.  Before the ring road, Ellesmere Street continued over here, and on the left was the Wilton Arms which closed in 1966 as a Groves & Whitnall house.  Its exact location is indicated on the map below.

Former location of Wilton Arms, Ellesmere Street. (c) googlemaps.

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

Crown, Mill Street

Crown, Mill Street, Ancoats, 1992. (c) Alan Winfield with permission.

The Crown was still standing on Mill Street in Ancoats in the 1980s, a modern Wilsons keg-only estate pub that had replaced the beerhouse of the same name on the corner of Kirby Street [1].  When Alan Winfield visited in 1992, John Smiths keg was on offer rather than Wilsons.  The original Crown opened in about 1860 and the closure of the new Crown must have been some time in the 1990s.  Angela Massey used to live at the Crown when it had been incorporated into the Cardroom Estate, like the nearby Cob O' Coal down Cardroom Road [2].

Ancoats and Ardwick Hospital, Old Mill Street, Ancoats. (c) Aidan O'Rourke.

The site of the Crown is the corner of Old Mill Street and Cardroom Road (then Kirby Street) where the concrete foundations are, diagonally opposite the old Ancoats and Ardwick Hospital which is being converted into flats.  On the other corner of Mill Street would have been St Jude's Church, as detailed on the Manchester History site.

1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).
2. http://ickleweb.com/?p=630.

Sun, Quay Street

Former location of the Sun, Quay Street, Salford. (c) googlemaps.

Not to be confused with the better known and more substantial Quay Street of Manchester, this is a short street near the Lowry Hotel just over the River Irwell into Salford.  In the 1800s it linked Worsley Street to Chapel Street and still does according to googlemaps, although the railway has long since cut across the top end of Quay Street.  On the left hand side, about halfway up Quay Street was the Sun, a tiny pub just the width of one terraced house, so you can imagine inside may have been a small front vault (i.e. in the front room) and a lounge to the rear (in the kitchen) which looked like it extended out to the yard area a touch [1].  The Delinio offices under the railway arches roughly mark the location of the Sun (though its address is listed as the adjacent and parallel Yorkshire Street).

1. Manchester City Centre 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).