Lost pubs of Manchester nu 3 ....... the River Inn, Palmerston Street

This is the River Inn on Palmerston Street and I am glad that Andy wandered into Ancoats at the weekend and recorded this lost pub.

He had been preparing for his “next walk and  stumbled across this so I thought I had better get it before it goes. It could be one of those that goes overnight.”

And in the way of these things there is every chance that it will soon vanish as Andy says “it happens to be about the only old building that remains on Palmerston Street.”

It was “licensed in 1860 as a Cronshaws Alexandra Brewery house before becoming a Groves & Whitnall house.  

By the 1980s it was a Greenalls house [and] before it shut, a freehouse.  
Since closure The River has deteriorated badly.”*

Andy reminded me of this earlier picture which shows the pub in happier times.

But with the slow regeneration of the area there may just be a chance that it will survive, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Plenty of better looking buildings, some of which were better preserved, still

trading and surrounded by customers went with little warning.







Pictures, The River Inn, 2015 from the collection of Andy Robertson, and in 1964 by T. Brooks, m50388 courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass

*Pubs of Manchester, http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/River%20-%20Palmerston%20Street