Neptune Inn, Murray / Masonic Street

Neptune Inn, Murray Street, Miles Platting. (c) Adshead at Digital Archives [1].

On what was Murray Street in the 1851 [1] and 1891 maps [2], but Masonic Street by the 1920s, Neptune Inn was at the top end, just one building off Oldham Road on the Ancoats - Miles Platting border.  A couple of doors and streets along Oldham Road from the Angel, the Neptune is shown on Masonic Street in 1935 as a Cornbrook house.

Neptune Inn, Murray Street, 1891. (c) www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html [2].

The Neptune escapes coverage in the late Neil Richardson's superb (and still available) book [3], and just about comes under Miles Platting.  The old location of the Neptune is just north of today's Butler Lane where the first of the tower blocks stands.

1. Adshead's Twenty Four Illustrated Maps of the Township of Manchester divided into Municipal Wards, 1851 at Digital Archives.

2. www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html.

3. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).