It’s the ruin you spot from the tram at Cornbrook.
Once it was the Railway Inn, pulling pints and offering a bit of cheer on a drab corner.
I have been interested in it for years, have written about it in the past and featured some of Andy Robertson’s pictures of the place.
It still clings on although now there is little left bar a few walls.
Andy has gone back and here are a few more of his photographs along with one in happier times.
It stands on the corner of Cornbrook Road and Dover Street and in 1911 Jonas Barraclough dispensed the beer and the cheer.
It was a densely packed area of terraced houses and industry.
So walking down Cornbrook Road from Chester Road to Dover Street the causal visitor would have encountered the homes of a chimney sweep, a postman and stevedore along with factories making tinplate, paint and cut glass in between the premises of
Joseph Bradley Herbalist, Arton Snowden, fried fish dealer and a printing works.
All very different from today.
Pictures of the Railway Inn today courtesy of Andy Robertson, and the Railway Inn in 1958, E Stanley, m 50339, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*Looking down on Cornbrook and the ruins of the Railway Inn, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/looking-down-on-cornbrook-and-ruins-of.html
Once it was the Railway Inn, pulling pints and offering a bit of cheer on a drab corner.
I have been interested in it for years, have written about it in the past and featured some of Andy Robertson’s pictures of the place.
It still clings on although now there is little left bar a few walls.
Andy has gone back and here are a few more of his photographs along with one in happier times.
It was a densely packed area of terraced houses and industry.
So walking down Cornbrook Road from Chester Road to Dover Street the causal visitor would have encountered the homes of a chimney sweep, a postman and stevedore along with factories making tinplate, paint and cut glass in between the premises of
All very different from today.
Pictures of the Railway Inn today courtesy of Andy Robertson, and the Railway Inn in 1958, E Stanley, m 50339, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
*Looking down on Cornbrook and the ruins of the Railway Inn, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/looking-down-on-cornbrook-and-ruins-of.html
Seeing the railway Inn again was wonderful I was born at 60 dover street in 1944 opposite the pub
ReplyDeleteGone now completely
DeleteSeeing the ruining of the pub with the road sign dinton street brought back memories of my childhood
DeleteMy dad Albert Walton had many a a pint in the Railway, I was born in Dover street just before it changed to Dinton street,
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