Friday, 23 November 2012

Sharston, Altrincham Road

Sharston, Altrincham Road, Sharston. (c) With permission: Northenden Old & New [1].

The Sharston was another of the huge Wythenshawe inter-war estate pubs built for Manchester's new "garden estate" in the 1920s.  The above photo of the Wilsons house is by Mr B. G. Boyle, hosted at the excellent Northenden Old & New site with kind permission, and it's also seen here in 1955.  This substation on Altrincham Road at the Sharston roundabout is still labelled the Sharston Hotel, as seen on a close-up.  The Sharston has been swallowed up by the M56 Sharston bypass, which was built in 1970 and now scythes through what used to be Sharston's shopping precinct, in the distance in the below view, around the Altrincham Road-Mullacre Road junction.


Former location of Sharston, Altrincham Road. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

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7 comments:

  1. Unknown15 February 2015 at 14:32

    The 2nd picture is not the location of the pub. My Dad used to manage it and we lived in it when I was 14.

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    1. Anonymous2 November 2022 at 18:01

      Would love to have seen the inside of this pub,we moved just down to this place in 1977,I think it was already closed,we used to mess around in the ground,s after coming out of Sharston baths.

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  2. Anonymous7 January 2016 at 03:19

    The Sharston remained long after the motorway bypass was completed and wasn't demolished until the 1980s, though it had been closed for years by then. An office building, Ability House, now stands in its place.

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    1. Unknown18 April 2020 at 06:02

      Was the Sharston pub known by another name. I seem to recall a pub called the Birds Nest, or bird in hand that was near the Sharston or was the Sharston. Help.

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    2. Anonymous16 May 2022 at 22:54

      The birds nest was the disco based upstairs in the sharston

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  3. pat30 August 2021 at 05:25

    Birds nest was the name of the nightclub upstairs

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