The Crown on Great Ducie Street is described as "a bikers pub under the railway bridge just before you got to Manchester Cathedral... in the late '70s [2]." The Crown is then said to have "the best jukebox in Manchester at the time. It also had a mural on one wall of the Rolling Stones in a stagecoach going to London. I recall it being a Tetley's house. It shut ages ago and is now an Indian supermarket [2]." Finally, "I remember seeing it on my way into Manchester opposite what is now the Arena [2]." This 1899 photo shows the Crown on the right after the shop.
Former location of the Crown, Great Ducie Street, 2010. (c) Google 2013. View Larger Map.
Another account on Manchester Beat describes the Crown in the '60s: "I was a regular in the Crown Pub in the sixties. It was the only pub in Manchester that would serve people with long hair and it became known as the long-haired pub. My first experience of smoking dope was in a pub called the Assize Court which was across the road from the Crown [3]." The old Manchester Assize Courts were on Great Ducie Street before being demolished in 1957 after terrible war damage, explains the pub of the same name opposite the Crown.
Former location of the Crown, Great Ducie Street, 2010. (c) Google 2010. View Larger Map.
2. http://services.salford.gov.uk.
3. http://www.manchesterbeat.com.
