Saturday, 30 June 2012

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.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 May 2013 at 11:25

    used to love going in the swan remember it well as I used to work round the corner

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  2. Anonymous19 February 2016 at 10:23

    I used to live there in around 1987/88. To say it was haunted is an understatement.

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    1. Unknown22 August 2017 at 20:33

      The swan hotel was haunted? My grandparents ran it from my birth to 96 and they never told me it was haunted! THANKYOU for that. I'm trying to get history on it if I can

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    2. Unknown22 August 2017 at 20:33

      The swan hotel was haunted? My grandparents ran it from my birth to 96 and they never told me it was haunted! THANKYOU for that. I'm trying to get history on it if I can

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  3. Jcalderwood23111 December 2018 at 02:11

    thats funny my dad ran the swan pub also we lived on thornfeild actually behind the pub its self had to be 1994 at the latest not i remember a lady taking it over and she had a grandaughter called jade boardmaan bot long after there was a fire in the pub

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  4. Unknown9 December 2018 at 17:07

    Joy division used to reherse in an upstairs room ,could it have been Ian haunting the place ?

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  5. redge16 February 2021 at 22:11

    Yes.reading John Savage book on Joy Division and it say they used to reherse there.

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  6. Anonymous31 July 2023 at 21:31

    @Jcalderwood2311 i remember ur mum an dad having the pub. Then a bloke called Dave an his wife. Then my dad ran it for a while an someone took over from him but it wasn't for long an then it closed. I lived over in humber st across the Rd. I never knew it was haunted. I was down in the celler, out in the kitchen, all upstairs on my own an never experienced anything. The swan was the best

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  7. Anonymous21 January 2024 at 13:55

    My Dad ran the pub in mid forties. I was born there an told I learnt to walk in the bar.
    Remember very little ,only it had a yard at the back with a large gate leading onto the side road

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