Thursday, 22 December 2011

Greyhound, Woden Street


Greyhound, Woden Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

Just over the River Irwell into Salford, the Greyhound sat on the corner of the lost Bigland Street and Woden Street, just off Ordsall Lane.  It was first recorded in 1865 and was a Groves & Whitnall house by the 1920s followed Greenall Whitley's in the '70s or '80s [2].  The Greyhound was one of Ordsall's survivors into the 1990s but sadly it closed in 1991 and was demolished shortly afterwards.


Greyhound, Woden Street, Ordsall, 1972. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

1. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
2. Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).
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2 comments:

  1. Graham WALKER18 January 2012 at 18:34

    Hi....I'm interested in the Greyhound PH on Bigland Street Salford, ideally from around 1880 to around 1920. I have written and recorded a song called 'The Ballad of Billy Unsworth' which is about a Salford lad who was born in Sunnyside st, Ordsal, and went to the Boer War, and then rejoined the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1914, only to be killed at Gallipoli on 21st August, 1915. Billy was a regular in the pub, affectionally known as 'Nicky Burkes' after the landlord of the time. I can be contacted at g.walker914@btinternet.com

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  2. granata18 January 2012 at 19:02

    Salford Pubs - Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003):

    The Greyhound was one of the last old pubs in the area to close, in 1991, having been first recorded in 1865 in the directory under William Thorp.

    After Thorp left for the Queens on Ordsall Lane, it was run by Henry Coates then Edward Whitehead.

    Then Nicholas Burke (there's your 'Nicky Burke') became the landlord of the Greyhound from around 1880 to 1910. What was presumably his daughter, Miss Mary Burke, then took over until the 1920s. By this time the pub and the house next door belonged to the brewers, Groves & Whitnall.

    Sunnyside Street where Billy Unsworth was born also had a pub on it - the Baltic Fleet (originally known as the Napier and Baltic Fleet) (1855-1936).

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