Stretching north of the city centre, Cheetham Hill Road's shops hide a number of old pubs. The Griffin is shown here in 1971 as a Wilsons house on the Cheetham Hill - Crumpsall border. In its heyday the Griffin had Irish bands playing regularly but today is shop selling fabrics to the local Asian communities.
Griffin, Cheetham Hill Road. (c) googlemaps.
MY parents ran this when it was a pub back in 70s . Margaret and Ronnie Harrison who now live back in Ireland , He still has he's publican licenceon a portrait of the pub
ReplyDeleteBizzarely, I'm a Harrison, though my Grandmothers maiden name was Green. She became a Harrison in 1934 (married Abel Harrison). She has 515 Cheetham Hill Rd listed as a residence of hers in the early 1900s. (I don't have any details unfortunately)
DeleteWe may well be related. My maternal grandmother was Mary Winifred Green (born 1893) and her father Henry Albert Green was the licensee of the Griffin from its being built, and previously of the old Griffin that it replaced, with the licence being retained by the brewers, Walker and Homphrey(?), building a bar in a shed at the rear until the new building was ready. David Owen, Sale.
DeleteI've found the building listed as the residence of my Grandmother in the early 1900s?
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