Welcome, Rusholme Grove, Rusholme. (c) NewtonBluesMCFC.
The Welcome is one of the most recent of the old pubs around Maine Road to close, and is still shown open on googlemaps. I had a few post-match visits here but don't remember much of it, although it was always regarded as one of the quieter match day boozers.
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The Welcome was popular with the BBC staff when they had their studio on Dickenson Road around the corner between 1954 and 1975. There were pictures hung in the pub of the stars that had recorded at the studio - apparently extras were recruited for filming on the promise of a pie and pint in the Welcome [1].
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During its later days the Welcome was a keg only pub, but a few years ago I think I remember it serving Tetley's cask. These days the Welcome is hardly living up to its name, looking sorry for itself, boarded up with its "Keep Clear" sign.
Welcome, Rusholme Grove, Rusholme. (c) googlemaps.
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Late 70s it was Greenall Whitley's I think. I remember those photographs of stars - there was a very camp one of David Jacobs - but I didn't get the connection till I read the above. It was a very pleasant, if unexciting, pub in those days.
ReplyDeleteDrank there 1981-82 when a student at Hollings campus. Remember the photos of BBC personalities well. The floor near the bar had a mural of two wrestlers grappling on it. The landlord at that time was an ex pro wrestler with cauliflower ears. Very friendly local pub in those days.
ReplyDeleteits closed now re opened as a dentist
ReplyDeleteI lived around the corner at 7 Dickenson Road. I was born there in 1955. My father Harry Gosnay was a regular from then until the late 60's.
DeleteThe landlord was Francis St Clair Gregory, a famous wrestler and his sons were Roy and Tony. Both were also accomplished wrestlers.
I had my first pint of beer there at age 11. My father would only allow me to have mild beer saying that bitter was chemical beer and 'no good for a young 'un'.
Happy Days. :-)
Francis St.Clair Gregory was my dear uncle what a loving caring man, visited the Welcome Inn on more than one occasion,sorry to see its rather dilapitaded condition now.So much history attached. Pauline from Cornwall
ReplyDeletePlayed football for The Welcome back in the early 80s! Great community pub at that time.
ReplyDeleteOnce, a great local community pub. Threatened in the mid 70's with demolition along with neighbouring streets, a group of local people and Manchester University student population, successfully campaigned to save the building, persuading MCR City Council to use the new "listed building" status to preserve the building and to rufurb most houses or rebuild in similar terraced styles, those destined for "redevelopment". It's now a dental surgery and in a sorry state, sadly
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