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this was a pretty poor drink the pub is still standing but has closed down and been converted to other use yet another manchester pub to close down alan winfield typical of its time developed to meet the needs of the new estates which replaced the slum clearance of the sixties in an area surrounded by industry once home to the osborne street baths and wash house and a pub of an earlier age the osborne still standing ceased trading manchester locai image collection photo gene hunt much of this is now gone the buildings the people and the work the pub had briefly become the centre for a telephone chatline service prior to its current use as a place of worship for the christ temple international church i chatted for a while with kath who lives opposite she had been a barmaid in the vault at billy greens boarded up and then demolished we recalled pubs long gone and the loss of trade the folks that drank in there have all passed on the vine is still open but nobody goes in there we have to go into town but it s dearer there i like the millstone and the wheatsheaf thanks for taking time to chat at a distance in these troubled times all pubs for the moment are a thing of the past here s a snapshot or two of a long gone pub posted in architecture closed collyhurst design england estate pub history manchester modernism photography pubs signs uk urban tagged alan winfield church closed collyhurst estate pubs manchester manchester estate pubs osborne street the lorimers arms vaux brewery 1 comment the gamecock hulme posted on november 13 2019 by modernmoocher booth street west boundary lane hulme manchester m15 6ge manchester local image collection 1964 the old hulme the old hulme of tight dense dark terraces shops industry and hubbub swept away by the waves of progress that washed over the area in the 1970s a system built concrete haven for a brave new world thus heralding the birth of the gamecock in 1974 as a wilson s house very much in the estate pub manner the pub survived the demolition of the brave new hulme from 1993 to 1995 as fresher waves of progress heralded the expansion of higher education seen here as a belhaven house in 1993 the gamecock ever in the shadow of one of the few remaining housing blocks photograph alan winfield nobody knows precisely when it ceased to be a pub suffice to say that at some point it sadly ceased to be a pub it now stands abandoned slowly reclaimed by nature as bramble and dock scramble over its sharp interlocking volumes of brick and once bright white cladding posted in brewery closed design england estate pub history housing hulme manchester modernism photography pubs signs uk urban wilson s brewery tagged boundary lane closed pub england estate pub hulme hulme crescents lost pub manchester manchester estate pubs modernism modernist pub public house the gamecock uk urban wilsons 3 comments apollo inn heywood street posted on july 31 2019 july 31 2019 by modernmoocher 79 heywood street cheetham hill manchester m8 0tx somewhat akin to a more than somewhat neglected child there only appears to be one tiny photograph of your younger self not a million miles away from you space age cousin in miles platting in your first incarnation as an inn a holts tied pub in an up and coming area the detritus of the earlier victorian era having been cleared away and a brave new world assembled in the 1960s i can find no reference online regarding your upbringing later years or final demise you passed it seems without trace you had a later flowering as an islamic centre as did full many other an estate pub though this too was short lived as the al falah moved on up the road where sadly a suspected arson attack was made so now you stand forlorn all alone and unloved surrounded and bound by chipboard and railings as nature reclaims your site was there ever a former glory an untold story or two posted in apollo architecture brewery cheetham hill closed design england estate pub history holts brewery housing manchester modernism photography pubs uk urban tagged apollo apollo inn cheetham hill closed derelict england estate pub greater manchester heywood street holts lost pub manchester modernism modernist pub uk 2 comments the apollo inn posted on july 26 2019 july 26 2019 by modernmoocher 2 varley street miles platting manchester m40 8ee the national divinity of the greeks apollo has been variously recognized as a god of archery music and dance truth and prophecy healing and diseases the sun and light poetry and more better known to us through the nasa space programme from whom i assume the inn got its name we were rocket mad in those days many thanks to mr david dunnico and his photograph for confirming my suspicions whatever happened to the sign one wonders for after all pubs are by their nature dionysian relating to the sensual spontaneous and emotional aspects of human nature rather than the more rational and ordered apollonian enough however of teutonic dialectics the area having been cleared of it victorian terraces then proceeds to reconstitute itself with a surprising space age alacrity apollo son of leto and zeus is born with a big block of flats for company a typically functionalist boozer with a two storey pitched roof home at its core with outrigger bars and commodious car park thanks again to alan winfield for his neat appraisal an estate pub that had a large block of flats next to it the pub had two rooms i had a drink in the bar which had a very rough edge to it the apollo was a boddington s tied house so i was pleased there were two real ales on i had a drink of boddington s mild which was a nice drink there was also boddington s bitter on sadly now closed down a familiar tale of demolition and rebuilding empty plots of land shifting demographics and economic downturns state enforced austerity and stasis welcome to the low paid low skilled world of the tinned up local the unnatural history which fails to learn from itself and endlessly repeats ad nauseam the land of buddleia barbed wire ragwort willow herb and grass cracked tarmac the final indignity the theft of your apron of paving stones a suspected thief was spotted ripping up nearly 200 flagstones and loading them into a shopping trolley he took his time tearing up the paving stones from the front of a derelict pub in miles platting a police community support officer spotted the suspected thief pushing a trolley loaded with flagstones away from the apollo pub on varley street one local resident said they ll take anything round here if it s not nailed down cleaner claire bevan 38 a mother of two said i ve heard about a lot of things but never that desperate times call for desperate measures i suppose posted in architecture boddington s brewery closed design england estate pub history housing manchester miles platting modernism photography pubs signs uk urban tagged alan winfield apollo inn boddington s england estate pub history housing manchester miles platting photography pub public house social history uk varley street 2 comments brown cow ancoats posted on july 20 2019 july 21 2023 by modernmoocher corner of butler street and woodward street ancoats how now brown cow no brown cow now tanning studio former organic goods store and one stop shop now i came in search of unclad flats and left with the inkling that this building must have been a former pub a little online research confirmed my suspicions there had in fact been two brown cows the former licensed in the 1820s to the john taylor co pollard street brewery until walker homfray took the firm over in 1929 who in turn merged with wilson s in 1949 serving the emergent industrial city and its citizens in an area dense with 19th century housing and industry the pubs of manchester blog details the pub s somewhat chequered history mick burke remembers the brown cow being frequented by the then notorious whizz gang from the woodward street area these were a gang of local criminals going by names such as flinka alf flynn tobacco and cigarettes man and reynolds alfie lacy a safe breaker one sunday night in the 1930s the whizz gang did over a post office on ordsall lane and nicked the safe despite a huge police search it was never found and rumour was that it had been dumped in the canal at ten acres lane in newton heath the robbery was the downfall of the whizz gang as they were caught selling stolen stamps in the brown cow john logan has a very different tale to tell i got back to manchester and in the meantime my family had moved two and a half years out there and they d moved they sent me a message saying our new address is the brown cow hotel butler street ancoats they d moved into a pub so i go out looking for it hammock on one arm and kitbag on the other and i see this copper stopped at the traffic lights i ask if he can tell me where the brown cow is goodness gracious he says i was going there later this is half ten at night you see when it would ve been closed so he takes me to it and he says this is what you do after time he knocks on the window the door opens a bit i ve got someone to see you kitty he says the door opens fully and there they are my family you usually get a fortnight of leave but i had two months you can imagine what a time i had the area was part of the manchester post war slum clearance scheme during the 1960s and rebuilt as a mix of low and high rise homes but beginning with a brand new pub wilson s brown cow archive photographs local image collection alan winfield recalls a very grim looking estate pub in an equally grim area of ancoats the pub had the usual two room layout with a basic bar and a lounge i had a drink in the bar which had a boisterous atmosphere this was a wilsons tied house with one real ale on this was wilsons bitter which was a decent drink as i wandered around woodward street snapping i was stopped by a local resident fifty years or so living next door to the pub it was a mint boozer as a lad i would fall asleep listening to the sound of the turns in the pu b the brown cow is now no more much of the 60 s redevelopment has been swept away ancoats the hippest place on the planet is on the move close by estate pubs it seems have yet to designated as hip so the brown cow along with countless others moos no more little details have been retained the delightful balcony rail concrete window frames and angular porch on a quiet night you may pause to hear a feint echo of the whizz gang at work opening up their ill gotten ordsall safe good luck with that flinka and crew posted in ancoats architecture brewery closed design england estate pub history housing manchester modernism photography pubs uk urban tagged ancoats beer brown cow butler street england estate pub john logan john taylor co manchrester pollard street brewery pub public house uk walker holmfray brewery whizz gang woodward street 1 comment the old garratt manchester posted on may 9 2019 by modernmoocher 127 princess st manchester m1 7ag once there was a hall that s all the garratt old hall seen here in this well preserved glass negative print of 1910 i assume that the hall was demolished around this time the surrounding area also boasted a garratt dye works mill and bridge then rather confusingly the old garrick pub appears in 1844 demolished in 1965 1973 and the old garratt opens as a boddington s house seen here in its original flat roofed concrete and glass brewery branded glory typical estate pub architecture though sadly lacking an estate to speak of alongside on the railway viaduct is a poster for the then ubiquitous and iniquitous tartan bitter happily the garratt sold a great pint of boddington s bitter on cask a milky pale pint that went down so cheap and easy on one occasion we all met up after work to have a drink before going to the the carousel on plymouth grove to see the pogues we never made it i assume shane and the lads did time changes everything the cream of manchester is now a somewhat sour subject the old garratt has dropped the old in favour of ye olden days a look which it clearly lacked modernity is now dragged up as a cut price stage set coaching house caprice replete with lamps black and gold lining columns and pediments the pub that thinks it s a pack of john player specials add a little neon and faux grass and voila a dog s dinner for two or more at least it s still open for business archival photographs from the local image collection posted in architecture boddington s design england estate pub history manchester modernism photography pubs signs uk urban tagged architecture beer boddington s brewery cream of manchester drinking england flat roofed pub garratt garratt old hall manchester modernism modernist post war architecture princess street uk 3 comments the four heatons aka the moss rose stockport posted on july 31 2018 march 8 2019 by modernmoocher 63 didsbury road heaton norris stockport sk4 2ba do not let the unusual design of the exterior put you off visiting this pub when it first opened it was called the moss rose an extensive refit had very considerably improved the interior decor of this once welcoming pub with its pleasant vault and well appointed lounge quiz is on wednesdays and a disco on saturdays lunches twelve until three do not let the fact that the pub was demolished on the 26th of november 2013 deter you from visiting we still have our memories and a few surviving snaps i have lived almost opposite the site for sixteen years though ever so local it was never my local but it provided a convenient and comfortable bolthole for the odd pint every now and again once it looked just like this opened in 1971 it was and always was a hydes pub stockport image archive it had a distinctive architectural style and layout all of its own an asymmetric timber clad dwelling at the core complemented by a fan of single story rooms extending into the car park the name was changed subsequent to the tragic and unfortunate gangland killing that took place in september 1999 it never seemed to recover from such a damning reputation and though well used by the many residents in the well populated surrounding area the offer of hard cash for the site must in the end have proved irresistible the doors closed the windows boarded up no more karaoke no more northen soul no more free pool no more nothing the hoardings went up the pub came down now it s a co op with flats attached posted in architecture closed design england estate pub history hydes brewery modernism photography pubs signs stockport uk urban tagged abandoned architecture closed design didsbury road england hydes brewery modernism murder photography pub seventies sign stockport the four heatons the moss rose typography uk urban 2 comments posts navigation older posts archives january 2023 1 march 2021 1 april 2020 1 november 2019 1 july 2019 3 may 2019 1 april 2019 1 july 2018 2 may 2018 1 february 2018 1 january 2018 1 october 2017 1 september 2017 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