Factory Tavern, Butler Street

Factory Tavern, Butler Street, Ancoats. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Factory Tavern opened in the 1860s near the corner of Elizabeth Street on Butler Street in what was previously a newspaper shop.  It lasted until 1933 (around when it was photographed) when it closed as a Walker's of Warrington house [1].  Today, this is the corner of Garforth Street and Butler Street.

Former location of Factory Tavern, Butler Street. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Maps.

1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).

Butler Inn, Butler Street

Butler Inn, Butler Street, Ancoats. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

Opening in 1834, the Butler Inn was on the corner of Daniel Street and Butler Street, described as "a first class beerhouse, the best stand in Manchester... with a new vault."  As pictured in Neil Richardson's book exactly a century ago, it was a Walkers of Warrington house, and closed in 1937 [1].  The site of the old Butler Inn is now taken by the estate pub-resembling Trinity Methodist Church on the corner of what is now the southern end of Ridgway Street.

Former location of Butler Inn, Butler Street. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).

Swan, Eccles New Road

Swan, Eccles New Road, Weaste. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The Swan closed in 1996 and was pulled down a year or two later and has made way for the Weaste tram stop on the Eccles line.  Shown here as a Chesters then Whitbread branded house, its neighbour, the Grey Mare survived although has recently closed its doors and is tinned up [1].

Swan, Eccles New Road, Weaste, 1972. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

Alan Winfield photographed the Swan in 1995 as a Vaux pub [2].  As shown below, the garage from which the 1972 photo was taken is long gone like the Swan.

Former location of Swan, Eccles New Road, Weaste. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
2. www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/77463.

Cardigan Arms / Free Trade Vaults, George Street

Cardigan Arms, George Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Cardigan Arms sat on the corner of James Street and George Street, the former of which is better known these days for boasting the Islington Mill gig venue.  George Street is now known as Islington Way and the lower end is now carried on as James Street, while Rodney Street now meets here at the crossroads.  On this corner the Free Trade Vaults beerhouse opened in around 1848.  It was renamed the Cardigan Arms in the 1890s and was then owned by Walkers Brewery until it closed in 1927.  Reasons given for its closure was there was never more than a dozen customers with only 177 barrels and 374 dozen bottles being sold that year [1].

Former location of Cardigan Arms / Free Trade Vaults, Islington Way (formerly George Street), Salford. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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

Factory Tavern, George Street

Factory Tavern, George Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

Islington Way runs south off the west end of Chapel Street today, and is so-named after the old name of this part of old Salford - Islington. The street was formerly known as George Street when it had one pub and five beerhouses.  The Factory Tavern stood on the corner of Barrow Street and George Street, opening in 1824 before passing to Threlfalls around the turn of the century.  The brewery rebuilt the Factory Tavern with a grand tiled frontage but the pub closed in 1938 and its licence transferred to the (now demolished) Oakwood on Lancaster Road [1].  The spot where the Factory Tavern used to stand is on the left, below.

Former location of Factory Tavern, Islington Way (George Street), Salford. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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

Longsight Tavern, Stockport Road

Former location of the Longsight Tavern, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

Seen here in 1970 [1], this little Boddingtons beerhouse sat next to the larger Church (note the sign for Boddies Stout).  The Longsight Tavern is also shown here in 1969, the next door-but-one shop being an wines and spirits shop.  Today the street is much-changed, with a bookies where the Longsight Tavern stood, an ASDA behind and block containing the off licence has also been rebuilt.

1. http://manchesterhistory.net/LONGSIGHT/PUBS/longsighttavern.html.

Church, Stockport Road

Church, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

The Church was a huge pub on the main Stockport Road through Longsight opposite Mitre Road [1].  It is long closed and today  finds use as a furniture outlet.  Unfortunately for the gents outside the new bookies, there is no boozer here for them to watch the race on.  It's shown here at the archives open in the 1970s.

Church, Stockport Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. http://manchesterhistory.net/LONGSIGHT/PUBS/church.html.

Horse Shoe, Coke Street

Horse Shoe Inn, Coke Street, Broughton. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

Coke Street still runs through part of Broughton near Cheetham Hill today, though it doesn't quite meet up with St Mark's Lane any more. At the easterly-most point of the current Coke Street used to stand the Horse Shoe beerhouse, sometimes recorded as the Three Horse Shows.  The first record of the Horse Shoe is in the 1850s and by the 1880s the Adelphi Street Brewery were the owners before it passed to Yates's Castle Brewery.  Robinson's, the surviving family brewer of Stockport, took over the Horse Shoe in 1924, and it's shown above as a Robbies house in the '50s with a happy family posing outside. Predictably, the boozer was lost to a compulsory purchase order, closing for good in 1967 [1]. The Kildadkin was built for the new estate, a hundred yards or so to the south.

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

Duke Hotel / Dukes Head, Liverpool Street

Duke Hotel, Liverpool Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Duke Hotel, or Dukes Head, opened in 1867 when a house and shop were converted.  Originally a beerhouse, the Duke stood on Liverpool Street between West Charles Street and West Ann Street, but by the 1880s it was fully licensed under Threlfalls - as shown above in the 1920s advertising Threlfalls Blue Label.  Sadly, the pub was included in the Liverpool Street industrial zone clearance order of 1964 so the Duke was closed a year later for ever [1].

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

Anson, Beresford Road

Anson, Beresford Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

The Anson was a huge pub on the Anson estate in Longsight on the corner of Farrer Road and Beresford Road.  Probably an inter-wars build, it closed some time in the '00s and today is in use as a Pakistani wholesalers and a couple of other businesses.

Anson, Beresford Road, Longsight. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

Hanging Gate, Tatton Street

Hanging Gate, Tatton Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The Hanging Gate beerhouse on the corner of Doddington Street and Tatton Street closed in December 1971 after the neighbouring house collapsed and damaged it, although I suspect its demolition soon after was also part of the Ordsall regeneration scheme.  It's pictured above, and in Neil Richardson's book, a few months after it had closed.  The Hanging Gate was first licensed in 1867 and was a Cornbrook Brewery house by the start of the following century.  By the 1960s it had passed to the giants, Bass, before its closure.  The name 'Hanging Gate' stemmed from the gate which used to be fixed on the corner wall which read "This gate hangs well and hinders none. Refresh, pay and carry on" [2].

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).

St James Hotel, Markendale Street

St James Hotel, Markendale Street, Ordsall. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

This big Greenall Whitley boozer was closed and demolished in 1976 having previously been a Groves & Whitnall house before and after a rebuild [1,2].  The St James Hotel was on the corner of Smith Street and Markendale Street, an area which has more recently been swallowed up by the tram line running through Ordsall.

St James Hotel, Markendale Street. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [2].

St James Hotel, Markendale Street. (c) SalfordProud Facebook [3].

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

2. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
3. www.facebook.com/groups/salfordproud.

Royal Hunt, Robert Hall Street

Royal Hunt, Robert Hall Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

Situated on the corner of Gloucester Street and Robert Hall Street (the two streets don't quite meet these days), the Royal Hunt was the oldest beerhouse on the street, opening in the 1860s.  A year after a slight rebuild, Joseph Holt's bought the Royal Hunt in 1891 and the beerhouse lasted for 80 years until it was demolished under the Ordsall compulsary purchase order of 1971 [2].

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).

Bush Hotel, Deansgate

 
The Bush Hotel, Deansgate. (c) Neville Bradley with kind permission .

The Bush Hotel used to stand where the House of Fraser (better known as Kendalls or Kendall Milnes) is today on Deansgate.  It stood in the middle of the department store block today, and was joined by other pubs, clothes shops and an opticians [2].  The Bush Inn, as it was originally called, was ran by James King in the mid 1840s [1].  It was later known as the Bush Hotel and was run by Cecil Burrows around 1910; Cecil is on the WWI memorial plaque in St Anns Church and the photo above is kindly supplied by his great nephew, Neville Bradley.  The photo is thought to be around a hundred years old, dating from around 1910, judging by the appearance of the car.

Former location of Bush Hotel, Deansgate. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. Manchester (Oxford Street & Gaythorn) 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2010).
2. Manchester City Centre 1849, Alan Godfrey Maps (2008).

Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East

Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

Just off Bury New Road on Great Cheetham Street East, the row of shops that once stood here was known as Sun Terrace and its datestone read 1853.  On the corner of Rigby Street, the grocers shop was granted a beer licence, so in the 1870s the Sun Inn was opened [1].  

Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s flickr [2].

The Sun was a Boddingtons house and survived as the shops and houses around it were demolished in the name of progress.  As can be seen above, ugly new high-rises were built, but only some of them appear to have survived, below.


Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East. (c) History of Rock and Roll [3].

Local beat poet John Cooper Clark was pictured outside the Sun Inn by the NME when he was guest singles reviewer in February 1979, not long before it was pulled down.

Former location of Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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

Dover Castle, Highclere Avenue

Dover Castle, Highclere Avenue, Cheetwood. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

The "Big Dover" (so called due to the Dover Inn on nearby Fenney Street) is one of the latest inner city pubs to close its doors for the last time.  This 13-roomed boozer on Highclere Avenue just off Waterloo Road is now tinned up and available for the paltry sum of £180,000 [2].  On the Salford border in Cheetwood, the Dover Castle is surrounded by new housing but sadly the new residents don't appear to need a pub on their doorstep.

Dover Castle, Highclere Avenue, Cheetwood. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The original address of the Dover Castle was Garnett Street when it was opened in 1874, the licence of the beerhouse transferring from an original Dover Castle on Palmer Street off Gravel Lane when Exchange Station was built.  The area known locally as Murraytown, was served solely by the Dover Castle, which was fully licensed in 1882 and a Threlfalls house by 1892.  Whitbread took over in the 1960s, escaping demolition in 1963, before passing to Chesters in the '80s and Burtonwood in the '90s [3].

1. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
2. www.2by3properties.co.uk/dover-castle-highclere-avenue.

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

Kings Arms, West Craven Street

Kings Arms, West Craven Street, Ordsall. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

This old Walker & Homfray then Wilsons house on the corner of West Craven Street closed in 1971 and was pulled down a year or two later as part of the Ordsall redevelopments of the early '70s.  The young lad with the ball is below a sign that really does say 'PLAY STREET - PROHIBITED ALL VEHICLES'.  How times have changed - although at the bottom of the still surviving stretch of West Craven Street, Ordsall Park still caters for those who want to play ball.

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

Royal Albert, Liverpool Street

Royal Albert & Union, Liverpool Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Royal Albert opened on the corner of Cranbourne Street and Liverpool Street in the 1860s as a beerhouse and provisions shop [1].  

Royal Albert & Union, Liverpool Street, Salford. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.

Groves & Whitnall took over in 1896 and with it, the office and several houses next door [1], thereby extending the Royal Albert, putting it next door to the Union Tavern, a still surviving Holts house.

Former Royal Albert & Union, Liverpool Street. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.

The Royal Albert closed in about 1961 and for several decades was used by Salford Direct Metals [1], although it appears vacant these days, next to the still popular Union Tavern, a Salford survivor.

Former Royal Albert & Union, Liverpool Street. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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

Copenhagen, Oldham Road

Copenhagen, Oldham Road, Newton Heath. (c) David Dixon at geograph under Creative Commons.

The Copenhagen has recently closed its doors for seemingly the last time, another sad reminder of the never-ending demise of pubs and pub culture on these shores.  Once a Wilsons house, as pictured below, the Copenhagen ended its days signed up as a Vaux pub on this corner of Oldham Road and Copenhagen Street.   Vaux were actually bought by Whitbread in 2000, and by then the latter had given up on pubs, so the pub may have been a freehouse for the last few years.  The Copenhagen is shown here in 1961 (note the Wilsons rugby advert), 1970 and even in decent shape in 2008, despite having been closed for a while.  

Copenhagen, Oldham Road, Newton Heath, 2011. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

1. A History of Wilsons Brewery 1834-1984, Neil Richardson (1983).

Tatton, Tatton Street

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

Pictured above in 1972 around the time it was closed and knocked down, the Tatton Arms opened in 1866 on the corner of Derby Street and Tatton Street, just off Oldfield Road, passing into the hands of Hardy's Crown Brewery by the 1890s.  The wonderful photo below shows landlady Sarah Howard and family members outside her beerhouse (which sold wines, but not spirits), the Tatton Inn, in 1905 [2].  The Tatton became a Bass house for its last few decades but closed around 1972 like most of the Ordsall pubs and beerhouses.  If you extrapolate the remaining part of Tatton Street west towards Oldfield Road where it once ran, where it meets St Bartholomew's Drive today is where the Tatton would have stood.  

Tatton, Tatton Street, Ordsall, 1905. (c) Neil Richardson [2].

Graham Marsden takes worked at the Cornbrook Brewery as an apprenticed Joiner in the 1960s.  One of his jobs was to visit on foot a number of the company’s public houses in the Ordsall area putting up 'Canada Dry' signs:  "As I came across Mark Addy’s bridge over the canal it was the first call on my list.  I note on the picture that it was still in place screwed to the wall by the entrance. On one occasion I visited the property with my Foreman Arthur Smith.  I remember Arthur saying how highly respected Harriet Hindley was by the brewery as the consummate professional landlady.  I was hugely impressed by the cleanliness of the bar, the Britannia tables, bentwood chairs and any other wood visible was polished to perfection and was a standard that the brewery reps often held up as an example that other pubs should aspire to."

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

"I would only add that sadly the old Mark Addy’s bridge has gone as well.  It had a marvellous Dickensian look about it with its old winding hand worn rail and deeply hollowed stone steps that admittedly in this day and age would be classed a death trap.  Sadly missed all the same - it took many years of Mill workers' feet passing over it to get in that condition and like the Tatton Inn was an important piece of local history."  Thanks to Graham for these great memories.

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).

Star Inn, Martha Street

Star Inn, Martha Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The Star Inn was a small beerhouse on the corner of Ryall Street and Martha Street, the latter of which used to run from Oxford Street, across Ordsall to Goodiers Lane near Broadway.  The Star opened in 1868 and Groves & Whitnall bought it and the house next door in the 1890s [2], and presumably then passed to Greenall Whitley as the sign in the photo above suggests [1].  The beerhouse stayed in business until 1972 when it was yet another victim of Ordsall regeneration.  The old location of the Star Inn is pretty much where  Craven Avenue is marked on the map today.

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).