The Lass O'Gowrie is still a decent pub but it's now a Greene King pub with a good selection of beers. Back in the day though, it was its own brew house and you could look through a window to see them making the stuff while you were drinking. It was a very nice brew as well. Alas no more.
Seconding the Castle (as a pub in general, don't think they've got tvs though) and is over the road from Gulliver's which is also well worth having a pint in.The Castle Hotel | 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE
Letting the good times roll since 1776! Iconic NQ pub and music venue serving a selection of craft beers, wines and spirits. Check our website for listings.thecastlehotel.info
Great boozer and scene of many a northern urbs meets.
If I'm over that way I'll drop you a pm.
wakelet.com
factoryinternational.org
One of my favourite artists. It's right at the top of my to do list for when I come back to Manchester in a couple of weeks.This has just opene which looks fab.
Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons
Yayoi Kusama is bringing her largest-ever immersive environment to Manchester. Conceived especially for Factory International.
People's History Museum, though I can't recall the statue.
It's outside a complex called HOME ( cinema, theatre , events where my eldest daughter got married) down the road from where the Hacienda was.
It wasn't always there, it was brought over after HOME opened.
Got chased through them flats by a gang of skinheads after a bit of mither with them in the Russell Club (the Factory).Pictures of the people of Hulme crescents....seem to be from the 70s and early 80s. Lots here I'd not seen before.
Hulme | Mysite
www.davidchadwickmanchesterphotographer.net
And it's a Sam Smith's, so used to be a really good option for if you wanted a cheap city centre pint somewhere with a bit more atmosphere than spoons. Not been there since lockdown though.View attachment 385376
n 1971, Sinclair's Oyster Rooms in Manchester was raised to street level to preserve its heritage.
This incredible engineering feat involved lifting the entire building - a structure that stood for centuries. It was later relocated again, this time it was dismantled, brick by brick...
Read more here: A Historic Gem Raised and Relocated: Sinclair's Oyster Rooms
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Long and turbulent history behind Manchester's oldest bar
From bombings to moving a whole street away, this 18th century institution has been through a lot throughout the yearswww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Good article. Knew a couple of people who had lived in Hulme (as I suspect did most Urbanites‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub
Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural meccawww.theguardian.com
) and heard the stories of the knocked-together party flats. This, from the comments, cracked me up:
Was just coming here to post that. Seems like a bit of a shame that the photography display's running for such a short time, but if anyone's free tomorrow:‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub
Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural mecca
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