The Jolly Angler is a pub either you know about and love or is one that someone told you about, because it was a bit off the beaten track.
For years it has stood as an almost isolated beacon surrounded by what had once been busy enterprises, of which a few still exist.
As later as the 1950s there were two saw mills, a clutch of engineering works, a heap of old canal warehouses and plenty of small terrace housing, all of which would have offered up a host of clients for the pub.
And now things are going full circle with the return of residential apartments within a few minutes walk of the pub.
But alas the pub is closing.
I picked up a tweet at the weekend from the landlord that, “It’s with a heavy heart that we tell all our @TheJollyAngler regulars, new visitors and visitors still to come that we will be closing after Xmas this year. The building is sold and will not continue to operate as a pub. We are gutted but grateful we have a few more months”.
Now isn’t the time to go looking for the plans someone will have for the area, and instead I shall just reflect that there are many who will remember it with fondness.
It featured in our book on city centre Manchester pubs, and is the first of the 76 which were serving up beer and good cheer, back in 2016 when we wrote and published the book.
That book was less a guide and more a history of the pubs, the people frequented them and the area where they were situated.
In all there were 78 drinking places, and four years ago all but two were open and doing business. Of the two that were no more, one had only just closed and the other was Tommy Ducks, which as Mancunuian knows was an establishment we couldn’t leave out.
You can order the book, along with our Chorlton and Didsbury pub books, at www.pubbooks.co.uk or the old fashioned way on 07521 557888 or from Chorlton Bookshop
Location; Ducie Street, Manchester
Pictures; The Jolly Angler, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and the interior, 2016, Peter Topping, Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors City Centre page 224
*Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors City Centre,Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson, 2016
As later as the 1950s there were two saw mills, a clutch of engineering works, a heap of old canal warehouses and plenty of small terrace housing, all of which would have offered up a host of clients for the pub.
And now things are going full circle with the return of residential apartments within a few minutes walk of the pub.
But alas the pub is closing.
I picked up a tweet at the weekend from the landlord that, “It’s with a heavy heart that we tell all our @TheJollyAngler regulars, new visitors and visitors still to come that we will be closing after Xmas this year. The building is sold and will not continue to operate as a pub. We are gutted but grateful we have a few more months”.
It featured in our book on city centre Manchester pubs, and is the first of the 76 which were serving up beer and good cheer, back in 2016 when we wrote and published the book.
That book was less a guide and more a history of the pubs, the people frequented them and the area where they were situated.
In all there were 78 drinking places, and four years ago all but two were open and doing business. Of the two that were no more, one had only just closed and the other was Tommy Ducks, which as Mancunuian knows was an establishment we couldn’t leave out.
Location; Ducie Street, Manchester
Pictures; The Jolly Angler, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and the interior, 2016, Peter Topping, Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors City Centre page 224
*Manchester Pubs The Stories Behind the Doors City Centre,Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson, 2016
Not sure where it is ,i was thinking near the old Manchester Steel Clayton.
ReplyDeleteDucie Street, off Great Ancoats Street
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