Pubs of Manchester

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Saturday 8 December 2012

Pack Horse, Ashton Old Road

Pack Horse, Ashton Old Road, Openshaw. (c) D.N. at ManMates Facebook [1].

This odd collection of buildings is unmistakably an old boozer as you travel down Ashton Old Road into town, as the PACK HORSE sign remains.  Until recently it was a Holt's boozer and before that, Greenall Whitley's.

Former Pack Horse, Ashton Old Road, Openshaw. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.

These 1960s and 1970s photos show the Pack Horse as a Groves & Whitnall house on the corner of Louisa Street.  These days the old Pack House is in use as a variety of tumbledown foreign shops and businesses.

Former Pack Horse, Ashton Old Road, Openshaw. (c) mickaul at panoramio.

1. www.facebook.com/ManMates.co.uk.

1 comment:

  1. I grew up in this pub which was run by my grandparents Tommy and Ivy Carroll.

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