The Blue Bell was a large pub on the corner of High Street and Turner Street in the 1800s. It dwarfed the neighbouring Wheat Sheaf - today's English Lounge (formerly Bensons and Hogshead) - as it used to jut out as a triangular shaped pub rather than the tapered building which now houses the Salimar take away [1].
1. Manchester (New Cross) 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2009).
It was supposed to have had a licence in 1443, that's old!
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