"Isonomy" means equality of the citizens before the law. The Isonomy Inn, known locally as the I-I according to Mike Burke, was fittingly an immigrant's pub, popular with the Irish and Polish of Ancoats. It started out as the Grapes Inn beerhouse in the 1830s and lasted until the 1960s. The Isonomy, at the top end of George Leigh Street near Poland Street, is pictured above as a Wilsons house from Neil Richardson's book in the 1950s [1].
1. The Old Pubs of Ancoats, Neil Richardson (1987).
