Admiral, Butler Street (c) panoramio.
The Admiral on Butler Street just off Oldham Road was demolished a couple of years ago and was a pub we passed on many occasions but never made the plunge. A typically uninviting looking estate pub, it was derelict for a few years, but is still shown as inhabited (though boarded up) on googlemaps.
Admiral, Butler Street. (c) Pete Taylor.
The Admiral had a reputation as a rough boozer full of 'characters' and strippers were a regular feature as recently as the late 1990s. It's a shame that these estate pubs are lost as communities are either literally forced out due to redevelopment, or at the very least, priced out of drinking in pubs.
Admiral, Butler Street. (c) closedpubs.
I know this is from a while back but if anyone sees this then I want them to know that this pub was NOT lost to the community! This pub was a massive part of my child hood and always full of lovely amazing local people who had a different story to tell every day. My nan worked in the pub for years as one of her friends was the landlady until a druggie took it over(that was it's down fall) In the summer holidays I would go to work with her and sit behind the bar with a colouring book and a shandy, the best memories of my life are in this pub and the fact that you never 'took the plunge' doesn't give you the right to pass judgment on the pub or the people.
ReplyDeleteDidn’t Alex Stepney once own the Admiral pub many years ago
ReplyDeleteI used to work in Victoria mill and mostly went in the White Hart on Oldham Road and occasionally had a pint in the Admiral