Horse Shoe, Back Hope Street

Horse Shoe, Back Hope Street, Higher Broughton. (c) Goole 2012. View Larger Map.

The Horse Shoe beerhouse opened in 1862 as competition for the nearby Star Inn which had opened around 1855 as still survives today, run as a regulars' cooperative.  The Horse Shoe became an Openshaw Brewery house and they rebuilt it into the fine building which still stands today at the top end of Back Hope Street.  

 
Horse Shoe, Back Hope Street, Higher Broughton. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr.

The Horse Shoe became a Bass Charrington house in the 1980s but retained its Openshaw Brewery signage.  Its listed status means the Openshaw Brewery advert and etched windows survive but sadly the pub closed in 2000 and is today used as a nursery.

Horse Shoe, Back Hope Street, Higher Broughton. (c) Brewery History Society.

Horse Shoe, Back Hope Street, Higher Broughton. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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

2. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.

William The Fourth, Robert Hall Street

William The Fourth, Robert Hall Street, Ordsall. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

On the corner of Ellesmere Street and Robert Hall Street, the William The Fourth opened in 1878, lasting just shy of a century as it closed in 1972.  The William The Fourth was a firstly a Walkers & Homfray house before it passed to Wilsons in the 1950s.  In 1975, Wilsons built a new estate pub, the Chequerboard to replace the old beerhouse, and it still survives today as the Welcome under Lees Brewery [1].  Ellesmere Street has been lost to the new St. Joseph's RC School, as has the stretch of Robert Hall Street where the William The Fourth used to stand.  Its approximate location was where Mayflower Avenue would intersect with Robert Hall Street if it continued west.

William The Fourth, Robert Hall Street, Ordsall. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [2].

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.

Burlington, Union Street

Burlington, Union Street, Greenheys. (c) Bob Potts [1].

This pub was rebuilt in 1938 but lasted only three more decades before it was closed in 1967.  The Burlington was an Empress Brewery then Peter Walker & Sons pub on Union Street off Greenheys Lane, Boundary Lane and Burlington Street.  These days the former site of the Burlington is this off licence and supermarket.

Former location of the Burlington, Union Street (Greenheys Lane). (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Royal Hotel, Lloyd Street

Royal Hotel, Lloyd Street, Greenheys. (c) Bob Potts [1].

The Royal Hotel on Lloyd Street was immediately round the corner from the still just-about-surviving Ducie Arms (the Ducie on Devas Street was sadly shut on a Saturday afternoon when we tried it).  Shown above in the 1930s, it is shown in 1970 as a Whitbread house, The Royal.  The pub shut the same year and today the street is known as Lloyd Street North.

Former location of Royal Hotel, Lloyd Street North, Greenheys. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Beehive, Temple Street

Beehive, Temple Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. (c) Bob Potts [1].

The Beehive was an Empress Brewery house on Temple Street off Rusholme Road.  It closed in 1931 and all traces of the street are gone [1].  Its location was somewhere off Grosvenor Street near Downing Street, and this 1920s photo shows it from Jackson Street looking to Altrincham Street.  Interestingly, the photo of the Beehive in Bob Potts's book has "sold" handwritten on it, confirming it was taken in the early 1930s just before its closure.

1. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).

Big Fiddle, William Street

Big Fiddle, William Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Big Fiddle beerhouse closed as under Walkers of Warrington in 1936 on the east side of William Street, just of Chapel Street in old Salford.  Dating back to around 1852, the Big Fiddle became a Walkers house in the 1890s and lasted until 1936 when its closure was blamed on sales being down due to general pub trade conditions [1].  William Street was lost under the Trinity Way ring road, but to give an idea of its location, it used to stand only a few dozen yards to the rear of the Kings Arms on Bloom Street.

1. Salford Pubs - Part One: The Old Town, including Chapel Street, Greengate and the Adelphi, Neil Richardson (2003).

Rob Roy, Arlington Street

Rob Roy, Arlington Street, Salford. (c) Neil Richardson [1].

The Rob Roy stood on the corner of Mount Street and Arlington Street in the Adelphi district of Salford, opening in 1830.  The pub was rebuilt partially in the 1880s, giving it a tiled frontage and an 1888 date on the gable end.  By this time the Rob Roy was a Mottram Brewery house, named after Richard Mottram, a local councillor, who owned the brewery in Brewery Street.  Cornbrook Brewery took over the Mottram Bewery pubs in the 1890s and expanded the Rob Roy by buying up the shop next door on Mount Street.  In 1961 the pub passed to Charringtons Brewery but just a few years later, the Rob Roy was included in the January '67 St John's Primary School compulsory purchase scheme and was pulled down in 1968 [1].  Both streets are still in existence today but the site of the old Rob Roy is nothing more than the meeting point of two footpaths in between the new housing and the school.

1. Salford Pubs - Part One: The Old Town, including Chapel Street, Greengate and the Adelphi, Neil Richardson (2003).

Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road

Former location of Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s at flickr [1].

The Alexandra Inn stood on the corner of Montague Street and Lower Broughton Road, a site which is still there today marked by this tree at the corner of Heath Avenue.  The beerhouse opened in the 1860s, becoming a Groves & Whitnall house which passed to Greenall Whitley's before its closure in 1976.  The Alexandra had been spared from the original Lower Broughton clearance area.  However, a public enquiry sealed its fate in 1974 [2], and rather than a boozer, this tree now serves the new population.

Former location of Alexandra Inn, Lower Broughton Road, Lower Broughton. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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).

Masons Arms, Robert Hall Street

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

The Masons Arms stood from 1874 to 1971 on the corner of Brighton Street and Robert Hall Street in Ordsall.  The first licensee of this Hardy's Crown Brewery beerhouse, Grace Megson, had her licence transferred from the old Masons Arms on Chapel Street.  The tenant during WWI, Samuel Torkington, almost lost his licence due for allowing "treating" (buying someone else a drink, which was illegal during wartime).  The Masons passed to Cornbrook, then finally to Bass Charrington when it closed in 1971 for development [2].  Brighton Street has gone, but the old location of the Masons Arms is opposite the Royal British Legion on Robert Hall Street.

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).

200. Railway, Wellington Road North

Railway, Wellington Road North, Stockport. (c) Adam Bruderer at flickr.



Railway, Wellington Road North, Stockport. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

199. Midland / Dillons Whistlin' Jig, Wellington Road North

Midland, Wellington Road North, Stockport. (c) Adam Bruderer at flickr.

Dillons Whistlin' Jig, 2001, now Midland, Wellington Road North, Stockport. (c) Lord_Lucan at flickr [1].

1. www.flickr.com/photos/70325985@N00/98346327.

198. Crown, Heaton Lane

Crown, Heaton Lane, Stockport. (c) deltrems at flickr.

Crown, Heaton Lane, Stockport. (c) calflier001 at flickr under Creative Commons.

197. Pineapple, Heaton Lane

Pineapple, Heaton Lane, Stockport. (c) Adam Bruderer at flickr.

196. Swan With Two Necks, Princes Street

Swan With Two Necks, Princes Street, Stockport. (c) deltrems at flickr.

The Swan With Two Necks is a superb old boozer in the dying heart of Stockport.  It is rightly on CAMRA's Heritage Pubs list, and there is a fine selection of photos of the interior courtesy of Mick Slaughter.  Mid-Saturday afternoon and the pub was pleasingly rammed, and we were squeezed into the snug over decent pints of Robinson's bitter, these days rebranded as Unicorn.  Another bonus point comes in the form of traditional outdoor toilets and the drinking yard.  The Swan With Two Necks is definitely one to look out for during any visit to Stockport.