The Gunsmiths, also known as the Imperial Crown, was open from the 1820s until it closed a hundred years later in 1923 as a Threlfalls beerhouse [1]. In the picture of Gun Street below, Bem Brasil, better known as the Land 'O' Cakes, can just be seen across Great Ancoats Street.
Former location of Gunsmiths, Gun Street, Ancoats. (c) Google 2010. View Larger Map.
1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).
A woman named Annie Simm killed her newborn son in this pub in 1900. She was the barmaid when the Johnson's owned it.
ReplyDeleteBridget Loftus was born in 1875 and the Imperial Crown, Gun Street was listed as her father's address but i can't find her after that even in the 1881 and 1891 censuses
ReplyDeleteI’m a grandson of Bridget Loftus and I have encountered the same problem unable to trace her in census until 1911 by which time she was married to Michael Connaughton (My name also) Whois my grandfather
ReplyDeleteMy relatives managed the Gunsmiths in 1881
ReplyDeleteYou must be related to me, my great granduncle James Johnson was the publican of the Gun or Imperial Crown (as sometimes called )from around 1890 until his retirement about 1928. My grandmother was also a Murphy!
ReplyDeletecorrection, in 1881 my relation was a barman at the Joiners Arms Rochdale Rd
ReplyDelete