Now as an introduction to an adventure and a series of pictures of one of our lost pubs Andy’s opening comment pretty much nails it on the head.
Although I do a have to break the news gently that it closed in 2010 which may be a salutatory warning to Andy to visit all the pubs on his in danger list.
But that is unfair. In the last year he has charted some of the most interesting and forgotten bits of the city and continues to get pictures of places just before they vanish forever.
Well with the exception of the Talbot which may be a pub I have been in but I can’t remember.
So I have also drawn on the knowledge of that excellent blog Pubs of Manchester to fill in the gap in what I know.*
In the 1950s when Swift had it before he became a journalist, the pub was known as the Talbot and there are archive photos from 1959 and 1970 as a Threlfalls house, plus one from Alan Winfield in 1993 as a Whitbread pub.
In recent years the Talbot had a spell as 'Peninsular' which was a student pub with a seaside theme. Its final hurrah was as The Ladybarn when it reinvented itself as a food-led pub, receiving some favourable reviews as recently as 2006. However, the pub didn't last long, being knocked down in early 2010."
Now there is more, but for that you will have to go off and read the pub blog.
Pictures; that hole in the ground, 2014, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and the Talbot in in 1959, by H W Beaumont, M50629, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*Pubs of Manchester, Past and Present, http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/#uds-search-results
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