Roughest pub

[davymcfc]

definitely not a rough pub but the bridge in sale was the host of the greatest pub brawl i have ever seen/ been involved in. friday night the whole pub was involved and it took 12 police riot vans to intervene. about 3 years ago it was.

 

[itsnevereasy]

No it was far later than that late 2000 early 2001.

Aaah right ... the concrete Bullring maisonettes that i used to live on and were opposite the pub would be long gone by then ..... yet the pub survived , and now looks better than ever .

You can see the maisonetttes that i lived in on this photo , they were demolished in the nineties .... the Junction pub is on the extereme left.

I never knew though , until i spotted this youtube , that the junction pub once had three floors.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPiIDj8FXH8[/youtube]

How places change eh!

 

[Blue Trucker 69]

Aaah right ... the concrete Bullring maisonettes that i used to live on and were opposite the pub would be long gone by then ..... yet the pub survived , and now looks better than ever .

You can see the maisonetttes that i lived in on this photo , they were demolished in the nineties .... the Junction pub is on the extereme left.

I never knew though , until i spotted this youtube , that the junction pub once had three floors.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPiIDj8FXH8[/youtube]

How places change eh!

Probably got bombed in WW2 blitz on Manchester.A lot of buildings lost floors when they was rebulilt.

 

[mancityvstoke]

The grants

 

[Stuart]

Used to go in the Pheonix on Briscoe lane in Newton Heath with my Grandad. Rough as fuck area, would probably think twice about going in without a "local" nowadays. The only time women came in was when they were dragging the men out or planting a full sunday dinner on a poor, pissed up blokes head.

It took sixteen pages for Newton Heath to get a mention.....amazing, lol.

Add The Railway, White Lion and Horseshoe in N/H to the list too.

My mate is the landlord of The Culcheth Gates. Always a lock in when I mooch down there to see him. Rag central though.

 

[mancitymick]

Closed down now but another Little Hulton gem - The Horse Shoe. Used to be a decent pub but the years leading up to its forced police closure it was a shit ole

 

[itsnevereasy]

Is the Woodpecker on Selsted Road still open?

Pretty sure it is mate, the old Labour club next door has gone though iirc, spent more of my youth in these two than is healthy though.

Lived there when i was a kid for about 6 years, always seemed a decent bunch of people in there (well most of them, there was a few nutters).

 

[-dabz-]

Pretty sure it is mate, the old Labour club next door has gone though iirc, spent more of my youth in these two than is healthy though.

Lived there when i was a kid for about 6 years, always seemed a decent bunch of people in there (well most of them, there was a few nutters).

My dad used to take my grandad in there on sunday afternoons in the seventies. He told us once that Tommy Cooper walked in one day, walked behind the bar, and started pulling pints for everyone. Apparently, he was appearing at the Golden Garter and decided to go on a local pub crawl and ended up in the Woodpecker.
I can confirm it is deffo still there, I live round the corner. Been here for fourteen years and never stepped foot in the place.

 

[The Ox]

the bridge in altrincham must been i dive for the outsiders cos its a total dump, i remember one lanlord wanted to have a beach party and wanted to get a few tonnes of sand in and was goining to spread it all over the pub and he was in the process of putting a fishtank in a fruit machine so you could see the fish behind the reels but he did a runner with the taking that week! very strange man

Had a few pints in here - what a shithole !
Pig and Porcupine was the tastiest of a weekend, kicked off every weekend mostly with riot police turning up after the windows had been put through !
The Pear Tree was a good drink and a bit rough if you were an outsider - I played football for them for a few seasons in the late 90's and they had some bruisers.
My Dad played for the Cock of the North and was there when some guy got shot, aswell as the Portway for years.
BTW alreet Dabz

 

[Dirty Harry]

Lived there when i was a kid for about 6 years, always seemed a decent bunch of people in there (well most of them, there was a few nutters).

My dad used to take my grandad in there on sunday afternoons in the seventies. He told us once that Tommy Cooper walked in one day, walked behind the bar, and started pulling pints for everyone. Apparently, he was appearing at the Golden Garter and decided to go on a local pub crawl and ended up in the Woodpecker.
I can confirm it is deffo still there, I live round the corner. Been here for fourteen years and never stepped foot in the place.

The Vault had a fair few nutters for sure INE, was a good pub though.

Wouldn`t surprise me that Dabz when you consider it`s on the way out to Cheshire way, seen a few `celebs` in there myself, think Paul Power was a regular at one stage.