Wheat Sheaf, City Road

Wheat Sheaf, City Road, Hulme. (c) Manchester Local Image Collection. Click here to view full image [1].

The Wheat Sheaf Inn stood at No.199 City Road, straddling Bright Street and Walter Street.  It opened in 1861 [2], becoming a Cornbrook Brewery house and saw its century out, closing in 1967 [3] for Hulme redevelopments.  The Wheat Sheaf is shown here in 1958 with a couple of old dears in shot (not sure what the one on the left down Bright Street is doing though.  These days City Road ends as it reaches Chorlton Road; the Wheat Sheaf would have been just on the left here:

Former location of Wheat Sheaf, City Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.

1. http://images.manchester.gov.uk.

2. The Old Pubs of Hulme Manchester (1) 1770-1930, Bob Potts (1983).
3. The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Bob Potts (1997).