Farewell the Church Inn
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| Happier Times, 2015 |
You were a pub I never visited,
But friends spoke highly of you
And of that long tradition of dispensing beer
Which stretched back to 1852.
My sources tell me that long before you sold beer and cheer*
You were one or two residential dwellings,
And had celebrated your fifteenth birthday
Before the old Queen came to the throne in 1837.
And now you have gone …… closed in 2016, and demolished in 2021
In your place will rise “62 units and associated landscape
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| 2015 |
And highway works”**
It wasn’t easy I understand
And the proposed plans were turned down twice, before final acceptance.
No more will shouts of last orders drift across Cambridge Street
And in their place will be heard the sounds of earnest and not so earnest students
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| Unhappy times, 2019 |
My old friend Andy recorded you in happier times,
And may even have ordered up a pint of J W Lees
But his last visit was to view a hole in the ground
A sad end to the Church Inn
Location; Hulme
Pictures; The Church Inn, 2015-2019, from the collection of Andy Robertson
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| Hole in the ground, 2021 |
*The Church Inn Hulme, Manchester, Heritage Appraisal, Stephen Levrant, Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture Ltd, https://www.heritagearchitecture.co.uk/
**Planning application 125654/FO/2019 | Erection of a nine-storey purpose built student accommodation building comprising 62 units and associated landscape and highway works, following demolition of existing structures | Former Church Inn 84 Cambridge Street Manchester M15 6BP, Manchester City Council Planning Portal, https://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=Q23IPBBC03O00
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