Gransmoor, Ashton Old Road, Openshaw. (c) Alan Winfield with permission.
The Gransmoor was a big Wilsons pub on the corner of Gransmoor Road and Ashton Old Road in Openshaw. In the early 1990s Alan Winfield remembers a garishly decorated and predictably empty Banks's pub [1]. A subsequent name change to CK's didn't appear to improve the old Gransmoor.
CK's closed in the mid-2000s and the old pub has since been used as a second hand appliances shop, as mentioned on the 'A Brief Encounter' blog. This also reminisces about the bands that used to play at the Gransmoor in the 1970s [3].
Former Gransmoor / CK's, Ashton Old Road. (c) John Topping at geograph under Creative Commons.
Former Gransmoor / CK's, Ashton Old Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.
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