Devonshire, Stockport Road, Ardwick. (c) Eddie Sinclair at Facebook.
Shown as a Wilsons house twice in 1970 and 1971 after a lick of paint, the Devonshire was a grand hotel on the corner of Devonshire Street and Stockport Road in Ardwick. In the past it was also known as Tommy Brown's Music Hall [1], a Threlfall's house, and the Devonshire was called The Circus for a time before its demolition.
Devonshire, Stockport Road. (c) anneokeefe1@hotmail.com with kind permission.
An evocative shot of the inside of the Devonshire, kindly supplied by Anne O'Keefe, shows it was a big and busy old pub. The Devonshire was sadly knocked down at some point in the 1990s and has, rather ignominiously, been replaced with a McDonald's.
Devonshire, Stockport Road. (c) anneokeefe1@hotmail.com with kind permission.
An evocative shot of the inside of the Devonshire, kindly supplied by Anne O'Keefe, shows it was a big and busy old pub. The Devonshire was sadly knocked down at some point in the 1990s and has, rather ignominiously, been replaced with a McDonald's.
Former location of the Devonshire, Stockport Road. (c) Eddie Sinclair at Facebook.
1. www.myspace.com/jimmarshactorsinger/blog/441672677.
I remember well Tommy’s music hall.
ReplyDeleteMany happy memories. If my memory serves me well. The venue was featured in a well known British film.
Chris Bluer
A Kind of Loving 1962. Pub crawl ended there. It started at Queen Victoria, Ealing Broadway 180 miles away!
DeleteI remember well Tommy’s music hall.
ReplyDeleteMany happy memories. If my memory serves me well. The venue was featured in a well known British film.
Chris Bluer
I certainly remember the good old days.
ReplyDeleteI worked as the pianist here. My grandmother lived nearby in Small Street.
Did you live in Oldham then ? And have a brother who also worked there ?
DeleteHi, can anyone tell me, was there a drag queen running the pub in the 70's/80's..and what was her name..... Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJackie Carlton and Bunny Lewis were prominent figures at The Devonshire but I dont recall any of them running the pub.
ReplyDeleteJim and Alma were the last tenants at The Devonshire and prior to that it was Pat and Anne Slattery as far as I recall.
ReplyDeletePossible someone else had it in its very last days. ?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know who owned it in 1971-72? I worked there. The tenant who hired me to work 4 nights weekly was very nice. It was a drag/transvestite bar and one night my ‘’straight’ boss from my daytime office job walked in! As I wasn’t allowed to work a second job, my jaw dropped. But, he was ‘caught’ frequenting a disreputable trans/drag pub with a decidedly raunchy act. We swore each other to secrecy and kept my job. I would like to know who owned it then and when Bunny Lewis owned it. Were people aware of the raunchy act?