When pub alfresco meant three steel chairs, a wobbly table and a wooden bench

It isn’t that long ago that when summer came pubs offered up a few old chairs and tables, often past their best, as their contribution to alfresco.

If you were lucky the chairs didn’t sag and the tables proved stable enough to keep four pint pots from toppling over.

And so here we are outside, the Horse and Jockey sometime in 1979.

What fascinate me more is the ghost space on the side of what was the chippy.

I can’t now remember what it would have advertised but I bet someone willand maybe even dredge up a picture.

We shall see.

Location; Chorlton

Picture, the Horse and Jockey, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson