Nelson, Claremont Road, Rusholme. (c) NewtonBluesMCFC.
The Nelson on Claremont Road closed not long after City vacated the area to move into the City of Manchester Stadium in the east of the city. Better known as the Lord Lyon, it was a bit of a dive on the odd occasion we popped in here, usually on the way to better pubs like the Claremont or Beehive. I'm not sure why the Lord Lyon was renamed - may have been after the original street name, Nelson Street - as shown here in 1969.
Lord Lyon / Nelson, Claremont Road. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.
The following describes the Lord Lyon in happier times, and also mentions another old, closed and much-missed Maine Road pub, the Welcome: "Mickey Gold ran the Lord Lyon on Claremont Road in Moss Side, perhaps the nearest pub to Manchester City's old ground at Maine Road and only a cock's-stride from Roy St Clair at the Welcome on the other side of Wilmslow Road. Good beer and good people at the Lord Lyon. [1]"
Although still shown on googlemaps, the Lord Lyon / Nelson, which stood at the corner of Claremont Road and Victory Street, has recently been demolished, having spent its final years as a church meeting venue and then a snooker hall, 'Rusholme Pool Corner'. It joins its old neighbours, the Gardeners Arms, Rusholme Working Mens Club and Osbourne on the ghost pubs of Victory Street.
I think that may have been it's original name. Never a good boozer, in my opinion, but still sad to see these ones go.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Victory Street used to be Nelson Street - http://images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=26400&reftable=ecatalogue&refirn=46742
ReplyDeleteAgreed, it was probably my least favourite boozer round here
i remember going in it during the strangeways riots, it was on the telly and a few of clientelle spotted people they knew on the roof ,nuff said
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DeletePub On every Corner In Those Days in Rusholme Red lion Sherwood lord lion gardners arms Osborne white lion happy days
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ReplyDeleteThe landlord's name was Nugent, dont know his first name, his son & daughter-in-law lived there, and there was a fire upstairs in which their baby died.Can anyone remember the name of the daughter-in-law?
ReplyDeleteThere was never a fire upstairs, Natalie (the baby ) my niece , died in my brothers house and her name was Mary
DeleteThink it was Jimmy Nugent who was the landlord but don't remember the name of the daughter in law.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad TERRY Mc Holyhead Blues used to take us there to see Jimmy every City Home Game early 80s always had a Great Welcome off Jimmy 🇮🇪🏴☘️
DeleteWas a regular in the late 1960s - it was one of the better pubs in the area, good music room, pianist called Mabel who had been performing there since before WW2. Last stop before the Temperance zone on way to Maine Rd. Everything has its day. Sorry its gone.
ReplyDeleteI did the Lord Lyon with the wife after watching Nottingham Forest at Maine Road,we did the pub on the 6th April 1991,the pub was signed as a Bass tied house but we were lucky in finding Holts bitter on the bar.
ReplyDeleteIt was packed with Man City fans but felt safe enough to have a second pint and a half of the cracking Holts bitter.
remember this as a very cheap pub - Holts was always the cheapest beer. A group of 10 or us went in (we were students) and it went quiet and everyone turned around and stared at us. We didn't stay long!
ReplyDeletemy grandad use to frequently visit the lord lyon in its day then walk down to the bookies next to the red lyon opposite the sherwood
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ReplyDeleteMy Grandparents, Harry and Lilly Moores used to go to the Lord Lyon pub every Saturday night in the 1930's/40's. It was probably quite nice in those days! I believe it was a Cornbrook pub. My Grandad used to work for Cornbrook Brewery, Hulme as a Drayman, delivering beer to North West pubs. He always thought Cornbrook Ale was the best! I recently sent for a photograph of the pub from Manchester City Council (Local Image Collection) which dates from 1971. It was still the Lord Lyon then. I'm very happy to have found a photo of the place where my dear Grandparents spent many a happy hour with friends. They would have been sad that it's now gone. Thank you for the very interesting information about it.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should write a book about this pub!! Jimmy Nugent and family were great landlords, the characters and the antics it was full of them! I had some great times in there.
ReplyDeleteRusholme great pub my sister and husband were landlords at one time
ReplyDeleteWas there ever a fire in lord lyon pu in the 80s
ReplyDeleteI remember this pub in 1980, it had regulars that was gangsters, even had Olympian wrestlers too, very strange pub
ReplyDeleteI was a Pub Manager of the Lord Lion, for Bass (with my ex-husband) in 1986/7?
ReplyDeleteI was only 24.
The pub was very busy & full of colourful ‘characters’ and had plastic windows due to the amount of times the windows had been put through!
It was ok for a few months but then my husband was threatened with a sawn-off shotgun when he stumbled on a drug deal going down in the toilets. We had kids and we’re too scared to report it.
Plain-clothed police officers had been coming in for a few weekends prior to this, as they knew the pub had a drug problem. On their fourth visit, they brought the ‘Tag Squad’ (a dozen or more police in riot gear) and cleared the pub.
There was a riot the following day - I managed to get to safety of the strong-room upstairs and my husband and bar-cellarman had to run for their lives! Everything - every stool, chair, optic and glass, were smashed.
After getting a menancing phone call (threatening my kids!) Bass moved us on to a much nicer pub!
My great grandma lived across the road in the fifties and used to sit on her doorstep and the regulars would all say "hi ma". She once saw Diana Dors going in, she must have been filming in the area.
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