Lost and forgotten streets of Salford ...... nu 28 Gore Street

It isn’t so much that Gore Street has been lost or even forgotten it is just that it has become another giant Salford car park.

And what were once Morris, Beck, Ridings and Bolton Streets have suffered the biggest indignity of now being relegated to car park entrances with only one still being marked with its name on the street map.

Also gone are Walker’s Place, Temple Place, Short Street, and Back Saxon Street along with three pubs and the Albert Bridge Brewery.

To be fair I have no idea of the state of the housing off Gore Street but I suspect they were not good.

Likewise at least one of the pubs had vanished by the 1890s leaving only the Griffin and the Red Lion on Chapel Street and the Egerton Arms Hotel on Gore Street.

And now only the Egerton is still serving pints.

As for the brewery, according to one source the brewery which stood in the shadow of the New Bailey Prison, was founded sometime before 1788,

“Accounts from the Ring O'Bells, Didsbury, show that the pub served Joule's beer in 1791 when two barrels of strong beer cost three pounds and sixteen shillings. The brewery document reproduced on the following page carries the warning ‘Barrels to be returned when empty being never sold’. By the 1840s the brewery on New Bailey Street had about 13,000 barrels in use.”  

The Joule family who had owned it from the beginning  put it up for auction in 1855 and although it was then owned by various brewers by 1868 the site was used for storage and was later redeveloped.

There is more but that would stray into a new series ............ the lost and forgotten breweries of Salford and that is for another day.

To which Alan Jennings has added, "A very interesting post, I worked just around the corner on Chapel StreetThe Egerton Arms was a great pub in the 1960s when it was run by Nan Freshette, and I was a regular customer, The cast from Coronation Street used the pub regularly and there was a beautiful full-length portrait of Pat Phoenix in evening dress on the wall, Peter Adamson who played Len Fairclough would stagger out very drunk, the pub itself has a long and fascinating history with the first license being granted in 1834, when the pub was rebuilt in 1897, it was announced that it had been rebuilt regardless of cost and that it had the ' Grandest concert room in Salford, but it also drew attention from the police who described the Egerton as a disorderly house".

Location; Salford

Picture; Gore Street, 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*James Joule – Brewer and Man of Science, Brewery History,
http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/115/bh-115-002.htm