Pubs I think I might have drunk in ..............

The trouble with being 72 is that lots of things I did blend into a heap of vague memories.

So, I might well have drunk in the Anson in Longsight.

Of course, being a pub the memories do have a habit of becoming even more hazy.

Not so Andy Robertson who took a wander across Longsight recently and recorded a few lost pubs, adding “this is the ex-Anson Hotel on Beresford Rd, Longsight. 

It was one of the many typical such "estate " pubs that sprang up everywhere in the thirties. 

Nearly all are closed and many demolished. 

Many have been put to other uses like the Anson which houses an Asian food outlet/wholesalers and other businesses. 

Many buildings still exist today here in Manchester, e.g., Southern Hotel in Chorlton, Yew Tree in Wythenshawe. 

Evidence of its pub existence can be seen in the Outdoor sign and Threlfalls sign, which must have been hidden for many years.”

Now if you trawl the newspaper records for the early decades of the last century, you can come across reports of the both the breweries and the City Council conduction polls of the residents to ascertain support for a proposed pub, and not unsurprising in most cases the vote went the way of Bolly Brewer.

Location; Longsight

Pictures; the Anson, 2022, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and the Anson in 1971, by B Garth,  m49180, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass