Pubs of yesteryear in the Manchester area

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's astonishing how many pubs Marston's had, and still have, in and around Manchester, given their Burton-on-Trnt roots.

 

[Barcon]

The Black Horse on Oldham rd. Failsworth. Ran by close family friends, Gladys and Tom.

Here you go Barcon .... I still have this ...

We used to start our crawls in the Black Horse .... then up to The Bridge, bit of a wander, and finish in the Pack Horse when the other Tommy had it .... cracking pubs all of them.

Tom and Gladys were brought in to save my local, The Robin Hood, Droylsden Rd, Newton Heath. But the damage had been done after they put a cockney wanker of the first order in as manager, after they got greedy and destroyed all the trade former tenants Bob and Louise Lamb had built up over the years .... It's an office nowadays ....

Ha, I've probably got one of those kicking around over here somewhere.
Did you know Steve or Alison?

 

[blueincy]

Loved going into the Royal oak on Oldham road for games of pool and especially stripper night aged 16..
Never forget this one time this stripper grabbed this guys pint and started to douche with it, he took it back of her and downed it in one.
He was staring in Corrie at the time.

It was here..

Remember the dead house on the corner(Grimshaw Lane) as a Kid, with the coffin inside. The Prince of wales I think it was called.
My dad said they would carry people into that pub regular who had been run over at that junction, most would die, that was the reason for the coffin and its nickname..

Billy Greens Collyhurst, would always go there before whit walks in our new clothes, because dad was collyhurst born..

 

[tidyman]

I don't go into town much these days, but has the Castle and Falcon disappeared now? From memory, it was on the proposed route for this new-fangled Metrolink I hear so much about.

Decent beer, proper pub, used to meet up there before a game, after working at the Co-op Bank on a Saturday morning shift in the late 60s.

Was a cracking boozer that.

Bit of a sad end really because it actually survived the building of the Metrolink despite years of rumours it would have to go to make way for it. But then shut a couple of years later anyway. I may be imagining this but it may have succumbed to a mysterious fire which some pubs seem to have a habit of doing.

 

[-nibz-]

'Pubs closing at rate of 31 a week' apparently.

The rate at which British pubs are closing down has accelerated to 31 a week and 3% of pubs in the suburbs have shut in the past six months, the real ale group Camra has warned.

Campaigners are calling for an urgent change in the law to make it harder for pubs to be demolished or converted to supermarkets and convenience stores.

The peak closure period was between January and June 2009 when 52 pubs ceased trading every week, and there are now 54,490 pubs left in the country.

At the start of its annual Great British Beer Festival, Camra has launched a campaign calling for a planning application to be required before a pub is demolished or converted to another use.

Pubs can currently be converted to a range of uses without planning permission. Camra says that in most cases communities have been powerless to save their locals.

Tom Stainer, head of communications at Camra, said: "Popular and profitable pubs are being left vulnerable by gaps in English planning legislation as pubs are increasingly being targeted by those wishing to take advantage of the absence of proper planning control.

"It is utterly perverse that developers are able to demolish or convert a pub into a convenience store or many other uses without any requirement to apply for planning permission. It is wrong that communities are left powerless when a popular local pub is threatened with demolition or conversion into a Tesco store."

Camra is urging more than 55,000 festivalgoers to lobby their MPs to support a change to the law. It is hoping for a repeat of its successful campaign to scrap the beer duty escalator, which automatically increased taxes by 2% above inflation.

Camra's week-long event features over 900 different real ales, ciders, perries and international beers across a total of 29 different bars. Nearly 50 MPs have already signed a parliamentary early day motion in support of closing the planning loopholes.

Stephen Langdon, one of a group of locals trying to save the Maiden Over pub in Reading, which has been threatened with conversion to a Tesco supermarket, said:"We found out just a couple of weeks ago that our valued local pub is shutting. My first thought on learning that Tesco were involved was that they would struggle to get planning permission for change of use. I was stunned when I learned that there was no requirement for this at all."

Camra said pubs support more than a million jobs and each contributes an average of £80,000 to its local economy each year.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/12/pubs-closing-rate-31-week" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... te-31-week</a>

 

[honkytonkman187]

Can anyone find a picture of the Red Lion in Gorton? Was knocked down in the 70s,I canT find a picture anywhere.

Please,no pics of a pile of bricks.

You could try having a look on here, it seems to have a large number of photo's history.

<a class="postlink" href="http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/</a>

this one?

http://images.manchester.gov.uk/Dis...071a2767a0c8f4&_ga=GA1.3.825006009.1420454416

 

[urmston]

Urmston hasn't had many pub closures because there weren't that many pubs there to start with.

The Red Lion was demolished a few years ago but that's about it.

 

[union city blue]

This place on Brinksway in Stockport was not for the faint hearted back in the 70's/80s, it served as the local for the Gorsey Bank estate. The name of the pub then was the Bulkeley Arms but it was always known as the Bow Garrett.

I can't remember the name but the pub on the junction of Stockport Road & Broom Lane used to have some decent bands on at one time, might still be there but I don't think so.

The pub on the corner of Broom Lane/Stockport Rd was the Wheatsheaf. I think the Levenshulme Supporters Club used to meet in there.It's been shut for a few years now. It briefly re-opened about 5 years ago for a few months as a Czech bar called something like the Star of Prague but very quickly closed down again after it was discovered that they were running a knocking shop with Eastern European ladies upstairs.

I went in not long after it opened (the bar, not the upstairs knocking shop) and it was a very odd place, whitewashed walls and no bar towels, beer mats, pictures or other pub-related paraphenalia you get in most pubs/bar. It was pretty clear that running a bar was not the primary purpose of the place!

 

[TCIB]

Was one in ashton you could walk into like a courtyard bit to get in near the bus stop.
Fucking rough that place was.

Used to have the odd half day of school to go to the three tonnes pub in the grove so i could see my gran.