Imperial, Delaunays Road, Crumpsall. (c) Alan Winfield with permission.
The Imperial was a strange-looking, industrial pub on Delaunays Road in Crumpsall, just south of the former Avecia, Zenace and ICI Building [1], now known as Hexagon Tower science and technology site in Blackley. This 1966 photo shows its previous incarnation, possibly as a club.
The Imperial was popular enough with workers despite resembling more of a canteen than a pub, and Alan Winfield rates it as one of the worst two pubs in Greater Manchester - he should know having done pretty much every one in the 1990s.
The Imperial was a Lees house with several function rooms, and lasted until the late 2000s before being pulled down to make way for new houses and apartments.
Former location of Imperial, Delaunays Road. (c) Google 2014. View Larger Map.
It was the ICI social club.
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For years the building was the ICI Club. When the old Hospital Club (nicknamed the Cowshed), located on a car park just inside the hospital, behind Birch Road was knocked down in 1982, the people running the Hospital club took over the ICI club for a number of years. I went to a few wedding dos there in the 1980s. Later on, the landlord of the Fox Inn took it over and made it the Imperial pub, it was demolished around 10 to 15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI remember going here 20 odd years ago just old enough to drink! Its a shame they pulled it down and have done nothing with the land since. Hopefully its made use of soon
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