This strangely-named pub, the Exile of Erin, was on Goulden Street in New Cross / Angel Meadow, off Oldham Road. Shown in 1958 it was a Cornbrook house, named after an Irish ballad from several hundred years ago. Not surprisingly, the Exile of Erin was a popular pub with the exiles of 'Irish Town' (as part of Ancoats, New Cross and Angel Meadow were known), and Irish gents would stride in with a flute and join in, jamming to the old rebel songs.
The Exile of Erin would have been close by to the sadly lost Hat & Feathers, and the Red Bull on Mason Street. Nowadays Goulden Street's Euro car park takes up part of the street, and although it's not obvious where the Exile of Erin once stood, it may well have been where the car park is. Along with nearby Angel Meadow, New Cross has not been documented as well as the city centre and Ancoats, so there will be many more long-gone pubs in this area to cover.
Goulden Street, New Cross. (c) Google 2010. View Larger Map.
The Exile of Erin would have been close by to the sadly lost Hat & Feathers, and the Red Bull on Mason Street. Nowadays Goulden Street's Euro car park takes up part of the street, and although it's not obvious where the Exile of Erin once stood, it may well have been where the car park is. Along with nearby Angel Meadow, New Cross has not been documented as well as the city centre and Ancoats, so there will be many more long-gone pubs in this area to cover.
Goulden Street, New Cross. (c) Google 2010. View Larger Map.
Goulden Street was once home to one of Manchester's most important police & fire stations, in the days when Ancoats and the surrounding area was perhaps the most crowded and violent part of town. Built around 1870, it had a bleak, windowless facade with a huge, still-standing chimney in the courtyard. Mounted police and were stationed here and their horses were stabled within. The main building has been demolished in recent years, and the complex looks like a derelict factory.
Inside Goulden Street Police & Fire Station, 2009. (c) camm33 at flickr.
A family friend, Alice Kirwan née Cullen a Wexford woman ran the Exile as it was known. You are right, it is now a car park. It stood on the corner of Goulden St. and Chadderton St, a Bass Charrington house. As a kid in St Mike's Georgie Leigh St, I knew it cos my dad drank there around 1970. Bar, lounge, and a death trap of a cellar door inside the bar. Irish and locals, Felix Doran, famous Irish piper played there.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if she was related to the Tevnan family who ran the Exile of Erin in Nicholas St, back at the turn of the 20th century? Mary Anne Tevnan (nee Cullen) ran that one for about 30 years between 1891 and her death in 1929.....
DeleteTevnan my family member .0161 4373916.i live in Heald green Stockport.
DeleteE mail me.hg.jackson@btinternet.com. I have photos of my Tevnan family.
DeleteTevnan and Cullen related.
DeleteTevnan my granparents.George Tevnan ran the pub after Mary died .
DeleteAlice Kirwan (nee Cullen) was not related to the Tevnan family. She came over to England in the mid to late 1940s and was the first of the Cullen’s to leave Cullenstown, Co. Wexford and cross the water to England; living in London, initially, before settling in Manchester until retiring and then returning back to home to Eire but in the west, Mayo.
DeleteAlso the exile of erin was run by a jimmy rafferty in the 1960s he was a smithfield market man fish market if my memory serves me right he run the pub for while with his wife vera happy days
ReplyDeleteThe Exile of Erin stood opposite the blue door of picture 1
ReplyDeleteMy mother and father used to drink at the Exile in the early 1950s'. Their surname was .... Goulden! They told the story of when they got married they returned from the reception to Goulden Street in a Black Maria sent from the Police Station
ReplyDeleteI lived in the old police station with my parents two brothers and two sisters for five or so years in 1963.I was friends with the son of the landlord who ran the Exile of Erin.The family were the Mcnieves who ran the pub.
ReplyDeleteThe police station on Goulden st was converted into living housing for hard up families.
ReplyDeleteIn the early '70s I was a student in Manchester and used to go to Irish traditional music sessions at The Exile of Erin. They'd often go on through the night, and I have a memory of tapping on the window at 4 AM and being let in, with music still playing and pints still flowing.
ReplyDeleteI also use to drink in the Exile of Erin and listen to the wonderful Irish musicians. Giant Haystacks and his brothers use to drink there. The best lock in Manchester.
DeleteI have photographs of the pub when it closed, just prior to demolition. I'll pop them up when I locate them.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice to see.. Tevnan was my familey
DeleteYep... Would love to see these. Many happy memoroes of the "Exile" as an Irish student in Manchester in eatly 1970s
DeleteHow do I add a photo? I’ve a photo of my cousin standing outside the Exile of Erin when my granny, Alice Kirwan (Lolly), was the licensee/landlady. She always had dogs - either Doberman Pinchers or boxers.
DeleteCatherine Tevnan worked in the Exile during the 1930s when she was married to John Hynes. I assume she was a sister of George Tevnan who was the landlord in those years? tonycarew@fastmail.fm
ReplyDeleteYes I visited them both as a child with my dad, her nephew. They lived at the back of Boggart Hole Clough
DeleteMy Grandma was her sister Mary Tevnan who married Thomas Jackson, my farther George Jackson.. had 3 boys Gregory, Graham. Anthony Jackson.
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