Colourful Drinking Establishments

[Dirty Harry]

The Talisman (but I knew it as 'The Cock o The North' in the good old days) was always a bit lively, the above photo doesn't look too different from many a ' morning after the night before', fun and games guaranteed, always some poor fucker flying through the windows, and if you didn't cop one there, there was always the chippy over the road after closing.

Sorry Dennis, didn't see yours.

Add Silver Birch to that. Only place I've seen it kick off mid afternoon on a Wednesday and half the pub scrapping!

Tudor looks a dump from the outside and isn't much better inside. Not too bad though.

The Benchill was notorious but never though it was that bad. The Anvil was ten times rougher.

As a nipper I used to live down the road on Haveley (my Nans house, nearer to the circle), it was rough as fuck even back then 40 odd years ago, think it went a few years ago didn't it mate ?

 

[yerwot?]

Add Silver Birch to that. Only place I've seen it kick off mid afternoon on a Wednesday and half the pub scrapping!

As a nipper I used to live down the road on Haveley (my Nans house, nearer to the circle), it was rough as fuck even back then 40 odd years ago, think it went a few years ago didn't it mate ?[/quote]

Haveley circle was dangerous, no other word to describe it. Police would only go as a last resort and never less than mob-handed

 

[s1ty m]

Mid 1980s, a seedy little pub opposite the bottom of the ramp that leads up to Piccadilly station. The Coach and Horses. I loved it, but it was the oddest little boozer ever.

Is The Coach and Horses now Monroes? Not sure myself on that one.

Another one, just over the lights which was a rum gaff was The Imperial. Now Malmaison, so not much change there really.

No the Coach and Horses was demolished. I remember there was a record on the jukebox by an Irishman who was singing a humorous song about Margaret Thatcher.

The Thatcher Song by, I think, Poor Scholars and Spailpin or some weird name.

Maggie Thatcher, you can't match her, she's the darling of us all,
She's the curse of the Irish nation, Fina Gael and Fianna Fayle.

And so on. I'm not a bitter drinker, but I think a mate introduced me to a decent pint of Tetley's in there. Grotty pub, but amazing too.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

The kings Head, Near the Hydes Brewery, Moss Side

then

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now

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Great research. Thanks for that.

No wonder I don't remember it. The top photo looks like it was taken between the wars.

BBB showing her age here I think. I'm not even gonna work out how old you gotta be if you used to drink in a boozer that shut in 1972.

Lol didn't drink in it, well only pop, used to be friends with the landlords daughters. I was a very small child:p. The pub shut in 72 and they knocked the whole street down. Our house is in the first picture, second one along

 

[Dirty Harry]

Add Silver Birch to that. Only place I've seen it kick off mid afternoon on a Wednesday and half the pub scrapping!

As a nipper I used to live down the road on Haveley (my Nans house, nearer to the circle), it was rough as fuck even back then 40 odd years ago, think it went a few years ago didn't it mate ?

Haveley circle was dangerous, no other word to describe it. Police would only go as a last resort and never less than mob-handed[/quote]

Don't know if you ever remember it, but there used to be a big hole in the bushes of the garden on the corner on the circle(on the right as you went down to The Anvil) , was there for decades, my Mam did that on a bike when she was a kid.

 

[tidyman]

The kings Head, Near the Hydes Brewery, Moss Side

then

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now

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Great research. Thanks for that.

No wonder I don't remember it. The top photo looks like it was taken between the wars.

BBB showing her age here I think. I'm not even gonna work out how old you gotta be if you used to drink in a boozer that shut in 1972.

Lol didn't drink in it, well only pop, used to be friends with the landlords daughters. I was a very small child:p. The pub shut in 72 and they knocked the whole street down. Our house is in the first picture, second one along

Well at least it proves I've not quite lost all my marbles just yet. That pub was long gone before I knew the area. In fact everything round there was long gone.

Completely changed by the time I first lived there in the late 80's. Looks like your street is Sam Cowan Close now. So you can at least say you used to live on a street that is now named after a City player.

Funnily enough my eldest lives just a couple of streets away now and it's all changed again since when I lived there.

 

[Blue Til Death]

I have fond memories of the Church in Hyde, my old man used to take me in there in the back tap room, they had a dart board with no trebles, just a slice of tree that you had to throw your darts at 500mph just to get em to stick in.
Think I was about 12 when he gave me half a boddies brain damage which I slurped straight back without a care, waited until my dad was throwing his darts then legged it to the bogs to throw up....The Hull Cheese too, cracking pubs.. Great memories..!

 

[The Ox]

The Talisman (but I knew it as 'The Cock o The North' in the good old days) was always a bit lively, the above photo doesn't look too different from many a ' morning after the night before', fun and games guaranteed, always some poor fucker flying through the windows, and if you didn't cop one there, there was always the chippy over the road after closing.

Sorry Dennis, didn't see yours.

Add Silver Birch to that. Only place I've seen it kick off mid afternoon on a Wednesday and half the pub scrapping!

Tudor looks a dump from the outside and isn't much better inside. Not too bad though.

The Benchill was notorious but never though it was that bad. The Anvil was ten times rougher.

As a nipper I used to live down the road on Haveley (my Nans house, nearer to the circle), it was rough as fuck even back then 40 odd years ago, think it went a few years ago didn't it mate ?

My old man played for the Cock of the North and was in there when someone got shot on a Sunday afternoon.
He played for the Portway which also seemed rough when I was a kid.
My Uncle Dabz could regale a tale or two about the Benchill or the Anvil as he frequented them with my other Uncles.
Funnily enough being a Timperley lad it was like running the gauntlet going from my Nannas on Benchill Rd to Flannies on Havely Hay for some sweets :)
Not a rough pub but the Faulkners in Alty had some fucking oddballs - seen a bloke neck a pint of Guiness whilst doing a handstand against a wall lol

 

[BWTAC]

Add Silver Birch to that. Only place I've seen it kick off mid afternoon on a Wednesday and half the pub scrapping!

Tudor looks a dump from the outside and isn't much better inside. Not too bad though.

The Benchill was notorious but never though it was that bad. The Anvil was ten times rougher.

As a nipper I used to live down the road on Haveley (my Nans house, nearer to the circle), it was rough as fuck even back then 40 odd years ago, think it went a few years ago didn't it mate ?

My old man played for the Cock of the North and was in there when someone got shot on a Sunday afternoon.
He played for the Portway which also seemed rough when I was a kid.
My Uncle Dabz could regale a tale or two about the Benchill or the Anvil as he frequented them with my other Uncles.
Funnily enough being a Timperley lad it was like running the gauntlet going from my Nannas on Benchill Rd to Flannies on Havely Hay for some sweets :)
Not a rough pub but the Faulkners in Alty had some fucking oddballs - seen a bloke neck a pint of Guiness whilst doing a handstand against a wall lol

I never knew Fetlocks boozed in Alty?

 

[Chipmeister]

The Green End in Burnage was an awesome pub. Some great characters in there.

Boarded up now. Would make a good development site situated, as it is, on the very edge of the Heatons with a lot of land.

No way has the green end gone? Happy memories :)

I heard all the boys were playing bowls these days, sad to here it has closed.