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Post by baycityroller on Jun 14, 2011 13:23:01 GMT -1
Interesting to read members talking about Manchester's smallest pub elsewhere on the site. Am I right in thinking that a one-room pub on Lapwing Lane close to Burton Road was once the city's smallest pub? I do seem to remember somebody telling me a while ago that the pub had knocked into the cobblers shop next door to it to double its size which wasn't very much as the cobblers shop, which my family used a lot, was tiny initself. Unfortunately can't recall name of pub but I know I had a drink or two in there in my youth.
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Post by baycityroller on Jun 15, 2011 8:29:36 GMT -1
I've been doing a bit of research and I now think the pub was called The Railway, presumably named because of the nearby West Didsbury and Withington train station which went under the Beecham axe.
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Post by odtricia1 on Sept 5, 2011 8:36:57 GMT -1
Hi, while I never frequented any pubs in Manchester. There is a most unusual pub I was ever in, in Cooraclare, Co Clare. It is owned by the O'Keeffe's. A retired couple. They don't have paint or paper on the walls. The walls are covered in photographs - all laminated photographs and articles from papers. It is a cornucopia of parochial history. It doesn't matter - rich or poor, if you are from that area, sports, weddings, christenings, communions, confirmations are all included. It is a great little pub for a quiet drink and you can ask the couple who the people are and they can tell you exactly who they are, who their relatives are and that their grandparents were involved in farming circle's/associations or were great musicians and singers. An enjoyable place to visit.
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