Old House at Home, Braemar Road, Ladybarn. (c) Google 2011. View Larger Map.
This backstreet local's pub sadly closed in 2010 year and has recently been converted into accommodation. The planning document laments the loss of the pub as "...regrettable as it represented a community facility that facilitated social cohesion [1]." The Old House at Home was hidden away on Braemar Street, parallel to Moseley Road in between Wilmslow Road and Kingsway in Ladybarn. There is a photo of the pub as a Greenalls house taken by Alan Winfield at Pubs Galore.
1. www.manchester.gov.uk/Braemar_Road_final.pdf.
Used to love going to this pub circa 1999, usually after we got bored of being in the Kingsway. Tom and Hilda ran the place. Sometimes they'd ask us to put some music on the jukebox, chuck us some sandwiches or Tom would turn off whatever his sister-in-law was watching so that we could watch Match of the Day. The locals were very welcoming of a couple of southern students and we would swap betting tips and watch Who wants to be a millionaire with them. Great community pub and definitely stumbled out the door after hours a few times. Was great to be made welcome at a time when there was a lot of anti student sentiment about.
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