The Hen & Chickens was on Oldham Street seen in this battered photo from around 1900, next door to where Night & Day is now. This evocative photo from the early 1900s shows the Old Hen & Chickens in the background, as does this postcard from a similar time.
The Hen & Chickens was on the right-hand side of Oldham Street, between Dale Street and Hilton Street, and "today (1996) there is a gap in the line of Oldham Street where the Hen & Chickens once stood, but you can still see a reminder of the pub - the word "Billiards" on the back wall [1]". That means the pub was most likely here as this is the only modern building in the row (the egg sign is also a nice coincidence):
Former Hen & Chickens, Oldham Street. (c) Google 2010.
There's a link to a still standing pub, as the landlord of the Hen & Chickens before the First World War was called Foy. One of his daughters married the local boxer, Boy McCormick, and they later went on to keep the Crown & Kettle, just up the road [1].
1. Ancoats Lad, Mick Burke / Frank Heaton (1996).
On the 1911 Census, George Henry Dale (40, born in Cheshire),a Publican, wife Ethel 32 & son Claude 12 (both born Manchester) were at the "Hen & Chicken". He and his parents, George & Sarah had moved to Newton Heath in time for the 1881 Census.
ReplyDeleteim looking for the foy and his first name who had the pub named hen and chicken and had a daughter called catherine previous yrs before as they my ancestors
ReplyDeletehi im looking into my foy relative first name not known who had the hen and chicken with his daughter catherine any help would be appeciated
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