Manchester's Dilapidated Estate Pubs
Here's a collection of Manchester's special breed of establishment, the estate pub. Not always pretty but full of character, catch a glimpse before they all get knocked down...
Manchester, arguably the world’s first truly industrial city, has undergone more regeneration efforts than most during the last century. The influx of workers to ‘Cottonopolis’ in the 1800s meant that inner city districts such as Ancoats, Hulme, Moss Side, and old Salford were filled with Coronation Street-style houses by the mid-twentieth century. But as the factories slowly disappeared, so did many of the people as their houses were razed to make way for brutal high-rise flats and grim council estates. Communities and extended families were ripped apart and dissipated all over Greater Manchester, and in most cases, the community focal points – their public houses – were pulled down too. A by-product of these regeneration attempts was the ‘estate pub’. These were hastily thrown up, unapologetically functional, and usually quite intimidating boozers built to serve the new housing. Those who moved into the new estates were a mix of old locals, immigrants, students, and in the case of the notorious Hulme Crescents, musicians and rebels, but they all embraced their new pubs with gusto. Manchester’s inner city estate pubs arrived in the 1960s and ’70s – Britain’s pub heydays – but most have already been lost to the next wave of regenerations.
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Great photo gallery. I expect.
Funny, I was reading about the exact same thing happening in 70s Nottingham just last night. Over 50 pubs were pulled down in one area alone - St Anns - when they demolished most of the back to back terraces and replaced them with "modern" council housing. Same thing in Radford and the Meadows. The way those areas are today it did make me wonder about the importance of pubs in the social fabric of a place. And yeah, most of the few replacement estate pubs are now derelict.
The gallery is there - just click on the 'blog' link in the article. There's something hauntingly brilliant and simultaneously shite about these images. We had several of these type of pubs in Blackburn too when I started drinking in the late 70's. There's a cultural thesis in this somewhere.
There is @Martin ...in fact a socio economic thesis and i'm writing it.
Fuck me, they're rough boozers. Crumpsall Hotel?
Brenny - sounds good, any more details?
Great photo gallery.
granata - Later.
The ship? The pepperhill? Take your kevlar vest.
The house that jack built in Broughton, you could get lost in the corners in there if you were tripping! And the Gamecock in Hulme once spent Christmas Day Night asleep on the pool table in there (the bird's mate was the landlord's daughter).
Well, back when I lived there I was unfortunately been a patron in the Beehive and The Grafton Arms and I hope they both get blown up. Utter shit holes. Get rid. Get rid. Get rid. Like going drinking in Milton Keynes (not recommended).
Crumpsall Hotel used to be on cheetham hill precinct, is now an Iceland- i have fond memories of the crumpsall from my youth when shopping giant was next door ( ahh shopping giant!)...another good old one is the Penny Black from waterloo road, a very rough pub indeed, was burnt down by gangsters in the late 1990's.
As Terry Alderton said...The first thing you learn on a Council Estate is never drink in a pub with a flat roof.
rough as fuck
I have been in most of the pubs pictured and even took the photo of the Cavilier. Yes they were all very rough but i enjoyed going in all of them,the roughest one in my opinion was the Crumpsall Hotel,nice Holts beers but looked into the mirror behind the bar to keep a watch on my back.
Throughout my entire life, I've spent only seven hours in Manchester. This reminds me why.
Where is the Eagle in the middle of Robert Adam Crescent in Hulme? It was a legendary pub - not far from the fabled PSV Club.
Great pubs. Keep yourself to yourself and your nose out and dont be a hero you will be safe. If not god help you cos no other fucker will.
There are plenty of haunted pubs in Manchester: http://www.ghostpubs.com/haunted_pub/north_west_england/greater_manchester/detail.html