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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Mrs Warbouys on February 01, 2012, 09:06:12 PM
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Feel free to list local pubs within 5 miles of Alty that have gone and been lost forever in our life times, I'd like to see the complete list, I'll start:
The Anville
The Bakers
The Beeches
The Benchill
The Bridge
The Bleeding Wolf
The Broomwood
The Hogs Head
The Greenwood Tree
The Huntsman
The Lantern
The Lively Lobster
The old cock
The Park
The Pig and porcupine
The Royal Oak
The Railway
The Royals
The Wagon and Horses
I've missed a load obviously
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The Unicorn Inn in Hale Barns had a decent pint
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Some of those pubs had scary reputations
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The Well Green
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Cheshire Cheese
Woodcourt
Cock o'the North (Talisman)
Yew Tree
......and over half the pubs in Northenden !
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Feel free to list local pubs within 5 miles of Alty that have gone and been lost forever in our life times, I'd like to see the complete list, I'll start:
The Anville
The Bakers
The Beeches
The Benchill
The Bridge
The Bleeding Wolf
The Broomwood
The Hogs Head
The Greenwood Tree
The Huntsman
The Lantern
The Lively Lobster
The old cock
The Park
The Pig and porcupine
The Royal Oak
The Railway
The Royals
The Wagon and Horses
I've missed a load obviously
The bakers and Jake best lock in ever - begged to be let out out a 7am and walked across Sainsbuys car park in a daze :D
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Cheshire Cheese
Woodcourt
Cock o'the North (Talisman)
Yew Tree
......and over half the pubs in Northenden !
I know this isn't really my field of expertise, but... I live in Northenden and along Royle Green Road there was three pubs pretty much across the road from each other. All gone now! In the space of a couple of years
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The brickies is now closed
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Spent many an hour in The Park eating greasy food as cooked by my dear old brother. Pat Crerand was a generous host.
|When did The Bleeding Wolf go?
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bleeding wolf - i'll put a guess at 15-18 years ago.
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bleeding wolf - i'll put a guess at 15-18 years ago.
more like 10-12 years ago.
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The brickies is now closed
When did that happen then?
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The brickies is now closed
When did that happen then?
This week apparently.
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The Grapes,
Kellys Bar
The Litten Tree
In all fairness, the three i have listed probably closed for the best. it's not as if the town is short of pubs, and they are terrible places anyway.
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Used to love The Brickies, can't believe that's gone.
Friday evenings after work sat in the front bit on George Street watching the world go by....
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Used to love The Brickies, can't believe that's gone.
Friday evenings after work sat in the front bit on George Street watching the world go by....
Absolute tragedy if The Brickies is gone, best jukebox EVER!
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One of the worst bits is that the good ol' pubs have been replaced by soulless, characterless, hateful pub chains,
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Cheshire Cheese
Woodcourt*
Cock o'the North (Talisman)
Yew Tree
......and over half the pubs in Northenden !
Fond memories of The Woodcourt, halfway down Brooklands Road. Served an excellent pint of Wilsons, which perfectly complemented their ploughman's lunch and went down particularly well on a sunny lunchtime out at the front of what was a magnificent building. Mortified, a few years ago, to discover it had been bulldozed to make way for flats. I'm even old enough to remember the Big B, as opposed to the Little B, which was at the Brooklands end of Hope Road, pretty much opposite the railway station.
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Feel free to list local pubs within 5 miles of Alty that have gone and been lost forever in our life times, I'd like to see the complete list, I'll start:
The Anville
The Bakers
The Beeches
The Benchill
The Bridge
The Bleeding Wolf
The Broomwood
The Hogs Head
The Greenwood Tree
The Huntsman
The Lantern
The Lively Lobster
The old cock
The Park
The Pig and porcupine
The Royal Oak
The Railway
The Royals
The Wagon and Horses
I've missed a load obviously
Yes, The Pubs we've lost thread could be a more accurate title though
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It'll be cans on Stamford park at opening time at this rate! I'd been in plenty of the pubs above, and they did what they said on the tin.the pubs left in Alty are soulless, I couldnt begin to even try and compare a pub in the altrincham area with any of the pubs in Weymouth or the pub we found in Gainsborough last week.
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I remember when The Pig & Porcupine reopened as "Kelly's Bar" and it used to be rammed in there some nights. Good days.
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The Downs
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The Grapes
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It'll be cans on Stamford park at opening time at this rate! I'd been in plenty of the pubs above, and they did what they said on the tin.the pubs left in Alty are soulless, I couldnt begin to even try and compare a pub in the altrincham area with any of the pubs in Weymouth or the pub we found in Gainsborough last week.
Hughsey think we sadly have to accept that bar meals and children are now big money earners too. Walk into the slug and lettuce, no we will bring your drinks to the table before you can have a look yourself on whats on draught and please mind the prams and yes we will clear the mess from the previous family. I was very raraly taken into a pub as a child but now its seems second nature.
I know its not a pub but I think losing McDonalds in Alty town centre was a blow too AND Ben's 50p store AND the Red Balloon AND Costa's before it was done up AND the worlds bumpiest car park where the cinema is AND the Roller Rink AND the tramp lady that lived near Dunham Massey in the woods & used to hang around the station poor girl AND Spudulike AND the grassy bank by the Main Stand AND how the snack bar by the Main Stand was split for the seats & terrace
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Woolworths and Stolen from Ivor.
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Singer Sewing Centre
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Oddbins, the Post Office (yes, I know its in WH Smiths), Alty Sports and Red Balloon (I know its already been said, but was a great toy shop!)
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racquets plus on hale road
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Our Price/Music Zone....many visits after school to get cds.
My Dad took me to The Downs before my first Alty game, while Litten Tree (or Bar Med as it was then) was where I went drinking after games when I was 15/16.
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Our Price/Music Zone....many visits after school to get cds.
My Dad took me to The Downs before my first Alty game, while Litten Tree (or Bar Med as it was then) was where I went drinking after games when I was 15/16.
You must have looked about 8 then mate!
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White and Swales!
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Peter J Swales Records on George Street;
Discount Records on George Street;
Gordons Records on Kingsway.
Many hours (and pounds) spent in each of those.
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This exile hasn't been to Cheshire, never mind Alty, since 1995! Is there any point in my returning? Will I even be able to find my way to Moss Lane?
When was Sugar Lane renamed Ridgeway Road? etc etc
Actually, I just got across the border to Chester this week, but that doesn't count as its now a suburb of Liverpool. ;)
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Getting back to the thread, the Red Robin club (ala Chequers)! Snooker table was on the left when you walked in, dance floor at the end get in ;)
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Peter J Swales Records on George Street;
Discount Records on George Street;
Gordons Records on Kingsway.
Many hours (and pounds) spent in each of those.
The days when you would go to a shop and buy your latest favourite single on vinyl rather than just sitting in your bedroom to do it! There was something very satisfying about that first slight crackle when the needle hit the vinyl!
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Getting back to the thread, the Red Robin club (ala Chequers)! Snooker table was on the left when you walked in, dance floor at the end get in ;)
Yes Yes Yes .....before it was chequers
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The old Alty bus station, the old library, Alty cinema, Hippodrome cinema and Hale cinema
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The old Alty bus station, the old library, Alty cinema, Hippodrome cinema and Hale cinema
You mean they've all gone? :'( :'( :'(
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Spent many an hour in The Park eating greasy food as cooked by my dear old brother. Pat Crerand was a generous host.
Didn't The Park have a brief incarnation as The Jolly Friar?
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This exile hasn't been to Cheshire, never mind Alty, since 1995! Is there any point in my returning? Will I even be able to find my way to Moss Lane?
When was Sugar Lane renamed Ridgeway Road? etc etc
Actually, I just got across the border to Chester this week, but that doesn't count as its now a suburb of Liverpool. ;)
Are you calling me a Scouser? Pistols at dawn pal.......
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Spent many an hour in The Park eating greasy food as cooked by my dear old brother. Pat Crerand was a generous host.
Didn't The Park have a brief incarnation as The Jolly Friar?
Yes, when paddy crerand had it
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The Bricklayers, noooo! Even worse someone on a pub site I use has just posted that The Orange Tree is closed and the lease up for sale, can anyone confirm?
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Our Price/Music Zone....many visits after school to get cds.
My Dad took me to The Downs before my first Alty game, while Litten Tree (or Bar Med as it was then) was where I went drinking after games when I was 15/16.
Didnt there used to be a HMV in Alty too?
The Blockbuster DVD store which seemed to have been Alty for as long as I can remember closed late last year
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The Stamford Hall (played there once, saw The Animals, Spencer Davis Group, and The Merseybeats among others).......
......and the original Alty Baths where I did some top bombing a la Peter Kay (only thrown out once !)
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The Bricklayers, noooo! Even worse someone on a pub site I use has just posted that The Orange Tree is closed and the lease up for sale, can anyone confirm?
Alas, all true.
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The old Alty bus station, the old library, Alty cinema, Hippodrome cinema and Hale cinema
You mean they've all gone? :'( :'( :'(
Aye, and Chris Senior is on loan at Guiseley!
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Apparently they are getting relief staff in to run both the brickies & the orange tree pubs. #saveourpubs #Altrincham
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I remember the old Alty baths, I nearly drowned in them when I was 11 and had just learned to swim. Over-confident I jumped in at the deep end and found my feet couldnt touch the floor. I went under several times and was passing out when a teenage lad came up to me, pulled me up so my head was above water level and asked if I was ok. I said no and he dragged me to the side where I gratefully clung on, moved to the steps got out, dried and dressed and went straight home. It was my briefest ever visit to a swimming pool. I was in the water around 5 minutes tops.
I did thank him afterwards but quite possibly I owe my life to him as the attendents were nowhere to be seen. If you know who you are, and happen to read the Alty website, cheers once again mate.
I would also like to add I am now a competant swimmer!
Anyway!!! I also remember going with my brother to White and Swales to hear the new Beatles single I feel fine in 1964 when I was 6 going on 7. He bought it! I also remember being a train mad little kid at the age of 4, and my mum leaving me on the station platform to watch the electrics going to Manchester and the old buzzbox diesels going to Chester. The real treat was a steam train giong through to the ICI works and Northwich Salt mines. Anybody in Sale remember Burts toys near the old Odean and Stanley Tole toys in Cross Street. What was the old bike shop called at Woodheys that also sold toys. Anybody also remember Lone-Star miniature metal train sets. I used to love playing with them when I was 3!!!
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Pembertons Steve
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Timothy Whites and Rumbelows!
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Stanleys market, Harry Brown Electrical Shop and Hepworths the tailors
Talk of the town by George Street was an article each week in the Altrincham Guardian
The Axe and Cleaver pub at the bottom of Kingsway and the Bears Head Cafe just along from the Don Chippy
All sadly long gone
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I don't suppose there's any danger of Trafford Council reducing business rates any time soon is there. ::)
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
Your going old school now!!!
Remember the ABC's?
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It'll be cans on Stamford park at opening time at this rate! I'd been in plenty of the pubs above, and they did what they said on the tin.the pubs left in Alty are soulless, I couldnt begin to even try and compare a pub in the altrincham area with any of the pubs in Weymouth or the pub we found in Gainsborough last week.
Stamford park has been teased a few times since The Bridge closed.
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The Bears Head Cafe, many happy memories going in there aftr a trip out on the motorbikes, any used to go to Cezannes in George street on a tuesday night, rock night with Mick and Doug, saw Saxon there when they were playing as Son of A Bitch wicked ;D
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I've heard that rip rap is reopening and the fred flintstone mascot is coming out of retirement, but not before ive bought some farrahs for school from legs of man.
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Anyone remember Adam West Boutique :D just up from the station clock
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Anyone remember Adam West Boutique :D just up from the station clock
Yep, bought a purple suit there in 1972/3 with 3inch matching platform boots!
Wore them to a job interview the next year, and got the job!!
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This exile hasn't been to Cheshire, never mind Alty, since 1995! Is there any point in my returning? Will I even be able to find my way to Moss Lane?
When was Sugar Lane renamed Ridgeway Road? etc etc
Actually, I just got across the border to Chester this week, but that doesn't count as its now a suburb of Liverpool. ;)
Are you calling me a Scouser? Pistols at dawn pal.......
Sorry, got it backwards...historically, Chester merchants moved to Liverpool when the Dee silted up, so Liverpool is officially a Chester overspill.
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Anyone remember Adam West Boutique :D just up from the station clock
Yep, bought a purple suit there in 1972/3 with 3inch matching platform boots!
Wore them to a job interview the next year, and got the job!!
Was that a vacant post as Huggy Bear's PA...?
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
Your going old school now!!!
Remember the ABC's?
I used to buy badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
Your going old school now!!!
Remember the ABC's?
I used to by badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library
I have a book about George Best that my mum ermmmmmm forgot to return - Christ knows what the fine is up to nowadays :D
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
Your going old school now!!!
Remember the ABC's?
I used to by badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library
Had a fling with a waitress from the Wimpy. She had nice buns.......
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The Royal Thorn in Withy.
What's the latest on the Bricklayers and Orange Tree?
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Hi haven't been to Hale in 30 yrs. Had my first drink in the 'Bleeders', the Bleeding Wolf and was caught by the cops for being 17yrs old. What happened to it/what is there now. Also the Station was great in Hale. Any news on what is there now or were they demolished? Cheers! An oldtimer with happy memories.
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Hi haven't been to Hale in 30 yrs. Had my first drink in the 'Bleeders', the Bleeding Wolf and was caught by the cops for being 17yrs old. What happened to it/what is there now. Also the Station was great in Hale. Any news on what is there now or were they demolished? Cheers! An oldtimer with happy memories.
Small road there now called Wolf Grange. Just houses on it.
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
I even remember when it was called the Pop Inn
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Also lost the following night clubs , jeeves, chequers , check inn which became squires and r place
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The Orange Tree was certainly open last night.......no doubt about that !
The Bleeding Wolf Building still stands (like the Cheshire Cheese does)......one is a fancy apartment, the other a heating engineers head office
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If you include shops then there was Radio Shack / Tandy opposite the train station.
That shop along with Rumbelows and possibly Zodiac Toys on George Street were the few shops that used to sell games for the Atari 2600 home computer systemanium in the 80's. Games like 'Q-bert'.
Lazy, crazy days.
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Also lost the following night clubs , jeeves, chequers , check inn which became squires and r place
Check Inn (previously Cezanne's) is still there at Totty's lap dancing bar (a friend told me).
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Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?
I even remember when it was called the Pop Inn
So do I, Jim.
Wasn't it located on Lloyd Street, approximately where Sainsbury's is these days?
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Them's was the days. Streets Ahead was a husband and wife business that grasped the idea of punk before the other shops in town and you could buy some quite obscure stuff there. The shop was next to where the 263 and 264 buses terminated just where the Sainsbury's car park wall fronts onto Lloyd Street.
Syke's Records was a pretty good shop too and a much cooler place to go that Peter J, Swales. And the woman in there was the spitting image of Ann Nightingale. Of course the coolect place to buy your vinyl was Black Sedan on Oxford Road near the university in the days before they moved into the university precinct.
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I don't suppose there's any danger of Trafford Council reducing business rates any time soon is there. ::)
There should be a law that if landlords haven't let a shop after twelve months the council should be allowed to take a lease at a peppercorn rent and sublet to local businesses. I also think part of the problem in Altrincham is that some landlords would rather leave a place unlet until the market turns then they can sell the whole site for redevelopment. I'm sure that's what's happening with the old John Hawker/McDonalds corner.
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the Pop Inn had been there ages but the change came when "greedy" Bob took over with his wife Jane, eventually renaming it Streets Ahead. I always felt their change in direction and subsequent success was down to me and my mates going in every day on our way to get the 263/4 home and asking for increasingly obscure singles.
If you read any of the Rough Trade histories they get a few mentions as they became the nortwest hub for the RT distribution network and as such really important in that postpunk era.
Also of course they were responsible for promoting the legendary gigs at the Bowdon Vale Club, Joy Division, the Fall, Scritti Politti etc etc
(http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/gfx/400-8439.jpg)
look at that line up! every now and then I tell a factory/joy division obsessive I was there and watch them froth at the mouth
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Had my first pint in the Downs(it was opposite work,best chippy used to be Peter Street.Used to like the Wilsons mild in the pub by George Masons,but cannot remember its name now.
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the Pop Inn had been there ages but the change came when "greedy" Bob took over with his wife Jane, eventually renaming it Streets Ahead. I always felt their change in direction and subsequent success was down to me and my mates going in every day on our way to get the 263/4 home and asking for increasingly obscure singles.
If you read any of the Rough Trade histories they get a few mentions as they became the nortwest hub for the RT distribution network and as such really important in that postpunk era.
Also of course they were responsible for promoting the legendary gigs at the Bowdon Vale Club, Joy Division, the Fall, Scritti Politti etc etc
(http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/gfx/400-8439.jpg)
look at that line up! every now and then I tell a factory/joy division obsessive I was there and watch them froth at the mouth
The Manager of Joy Davision, Rob Gretton use to live next door to my Aunt on Fouracres Road opposite Wythenshawe hospital. Sadly he passed away in the 90's at the relatively young age of 42 - he was a big City fan.
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Had my first pint in the Downs(it was opposite work,best chippy used to be Peter Street.Used to like the Wilsons mild in the pub by George Masons,but cannot remember its name now.
The Faulkners Arms.
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I'm reliably informed that the licensee of The Bricklayers and The Orange Tree has handed the keys back to Enterprise Inns. Enterprise have put a temporary manager in the Tree for now until a new leaseholder can be found. No news on the Brickies.
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those lovely people from enterprise inns , britains second best pub closing company slightly behind punch taverns. thats yer rent and its 3 times more expensive than the wholesalers to buy yer beer . dont fall for it if your thinking about it?
british pubs will continue to die whilst people like these own the pubs
rant over......... sorry
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Thanks Phil it was indeed the faulkners arms
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those lovely people from enterprise inns , britains second best pub closing company slightly behind punch taverns. thats yer rent and its 3 times more expensive than the wholesalers to buy yer beer . dont fall for it if your thinking about it?
british pubs will continue to die whilst people like these own the pubs
rant over......... sorry
apot on. smokers think its the smoking ban that's closing pubs. it's not. its the bent Pubco practices.
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those lovely people from enterprise inns , britains second best pub closing company slightly behind punch taverns. thats yer rent and its 3 times more expensive than the wholesalers to buy yer beer . dont fall for it if your thinking about it?
british pubs will continue to die whilst people like these own the pubs
rant over......... sorry
Don't be sorry Peter, spot on, the pubco parasites are the reason our favourite boozers are vanishing so fast, the only thing we can do is support your local, and perhaps lobby your MP. The British pub and local is an endangered species.
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oh now you've got me started
the smoking ban doesnt help but its fourth behind
no 2cheap booze from the supermarkets
and no 3 the fact that my generation is the last generation to think going to the pub every night is normal , particularly to play that dying game darts , or doms or don or crib . you just dont see it any more. its been replaced by television in pubs . televisions should only be switched on when there is football on . for fecks sake people watch all sorts of sh*t now. switch it off talk to each other, become friends, play games you have to think about .
RIP the british pub .
rant not over there is more to come
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Not convinced by the smoking ban argument, you can still go to the pub and nip outside for a fag, most pubs have made provision. For every smoker there should be someone who doesn't who can now go home without having to wash their clothes. Tricky one. I just ask everyone to support their local pub at least once a week or lose it. Please do.
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AS A BORN AGAIN NON SMOKER (apart from the last two weeks in goa which may not have been entirely tabacco related) I have some sympathy but dont se e why you cant have a room where every one can smoke, if it is away from the non smoking room . ie not connected at all. if the bar persons says they are happy to work in that environment (obviously signs a form in triplicate to say so) then whats the problem if there are people smoking in there and you dont like it dont fecking go in there. or is that to simple for this nanny state.
the gazelle ..........ranting well tonight
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Apart from the attractions of Sky tv a home and cheap supermarket beer doesn't a big part of the problem go back to the breweries having to offload a large number of their pubs in the name of competition with the result being there's even less competition now because there's even less pubs?
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oh now you've got me started
the smoking ban doesnt help but its fourth behind
no 2cheap booze from the supermarkets
and no 3 the fact that my generation is the last generation to think going to the pub every night is normal , particularly to play that dying game darts , or doms or don or crib . you just dont see it any more. its been replaced by television in pubs . televisions should only be switched on when there is football on . for fecks sake people watch all sorts of sh*t now. switch it off talk to each other, become friends, play games you have to think about .
RIP the british pub .
rant not over there is more to come
Spot on.
Unfortunately talking to each other is a foreign concept to most people these days. There's nothing in this world more interesting than people and when they've had a couple of pints they usually get more interesting.
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I remember the owner of the bar Orange Grove in El Rompido, Huelva in Sevilla ,saying it was cheaper to run a bar in Spain than it is to run a pub in England.
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The Manager of Joy Davision, Rob Gretton use to live next door to my Aunt on Fouracres Road opposite Wythenshawe hospital. Sadly he passed away in the 90's at the relatively young age of 42 - he was a big City fan.
His line in 24 Hour Party People is a belter, pointing to the Belgian girl Ian Curtis was involved with "Her! Fookin Joan of Arc over there!" :D
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Alty featured in this item on Sky news http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16171546
From Facebook Altrincham HQ
What do you think of this Sky News story on Retailers shutting 14 shops a day - features Altrincham http://ow.ly/97TFt
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Them's was the days. Streets Ahead was a husband and wife business that grasped the idea of punk before the other shops in town and you could buy some quite obscure stuff there. The shop was next to where the 263 and 264 buses terminated just where the Sainsbury's car park wall fronts onto Lloyd Street.
Syke's Records was a pretty good shop too and a much cooler place to go that Peter J, Swales. And the woman in there was the spitting image of Ann Nightingale. Of course the coolect place to buy your vinyl was Black Sedan on Oxford Road near the university in the days before they moved into the university precinct.
I still have my cherished fold out sleeve copy of the Drones "Bone Idol" that I got from Streets Ahead. "Them's was the Days" indeed!
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Article from this week's Messenger on the closure of the Orange Tree and Brickies :'(
http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/9547512.Last_orders/
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Article from this week's Messenger on the closure of the Orange Tree and Brickies :'(
http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/9547512.Last_orders/
scary stuff ! Be no where left soon
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Get GH to manage one as an Alty FC themed pub!
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Get GH to manage one as an Alty FC themed pub!
Not another GH thread!! ;)
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Article from this week's Messenger on the closure of the Orange Tree and Brickies :'(
http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/9547512.Last_orders/
The penultimate paragraph should read anyone who wants to be a publican with enterprise inns should forget it
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The Plough and flail at Mobberly,it might be still there,but its lost cos i can never find it these days whenever i come back up north
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The Plough and flail at Mobberly,it might be still there,but its lost cos i can never find it these days whenever i come back up north
Great pub with amazing food, its still there but I couldn't find it either without a sat nav!
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The Plough and flail at Mobberly,it might be still there,but its lost cos i can never find it these days whenever i come back up north
Great pub with amazing food, its still there but I couldn't find it either without a sat nav!
when I first went there after I'd moved to Knutsford in 1970, it was still a house with the pub in the front room.More than 10 customers and it was chokker. then it became a restaurant, was extended and went downhill IMO.
I could probably find my way there, even after all these years,but I wouldn't like to try to give directions......turn left at the second cow..etc ;)