The Manchester Lodge, formerly Mamas / Victoria, Rochdale Road. (c) googlemaps.
Unlike the three other new entries to our list of lost pubs found in the 1989 CAMRA guide, Mamas is a genuine find. Just a few yards up the road from Manchester's finest, the Marble Arch, is The Manchester Lodge, a fine looking café at No.85. Mamas is described as selling Chesters Mild, Chesters Bitter and Whitbread Trophy [1], rather staid offerings compared to its illustrious neighbour now, and probably then too. Going back a decade or two and this pub was called the Victoria, described as an ordinary pub selling Chesters Mild, Trophy, Guinness and Gauntlet, with the only notable feature being the jukebox which had some Irish Show Band classics [2].
Marble Arch with likely Mamas up Rochdale Road. (c) googlemaps.
1. Ale of Two Cities, CAMRA (1989).
2. The Manchester Pub Guide, Manchester & Salford City Centres (1975).
2. The Manchester Pub Guide, Manchester & Salford City Centres (1975).
Mamas was a very popular pub in the early 70s with the lads who worked for the tipper firm Beistys which backed onto it sometimes couldnt get in the place on a friday nights for drivers.
ReplyDeleteI lived here in the 70s had amazing teenage years living here.
DeleteThe Victoria was also run by my Grandparents Tom and Winnie Parkinson
ReplyDeleteI used to go drinking here in 95/96 when I worked at British Gas on Gould St for a while. Had decent Guinness and a good pool table for a lunch time trip.
ReplyDeleteMy uncle and aunt ran this pub late 70s early 80s Bryan and Jean Robinson
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