Showing posts with label Didsbury pubs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Didsbury pubs. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 March 2025

A history of Didsbury in just 20 objects number 11 … .the plan of a pub

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The story of Didsbury in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a paragraph or more. I am looking at the plan of the lo...
Friday, 4 November 2022

Changing Didsbury …….. the bits we miss

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  Now, we are all familiar with those old images of Didsbury stretching back into the last century and beyond, and the fun is comparing them...
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Friday, 20 May 2022

The Prince Albert …….. one of the lost Didsbury pubs

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The discovery of the Prince Albert was and remains a big surprise.   Prince Albert, 2020 It stood on the northern side of Wilmslow Ro...
Monday, 28 February 2022

The Fletcher Moss ……… once the Albert and once a railway pub

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The beer house which became the Albert and then the Fletcher Moss and had been owned by a railway company. The Albert, 1970 The Fletch...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

That pub on Palatine Road ……… with a bit of its history

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Now, the Greenfinch pub rather dominates the corner of Palatine Road and Lapwing Lane. It was  once a school for ladies, whose Principl...
Monday, 24 February 2020

The one you can’t visit …………….. today in Didsbury …… no. 2 CAU

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This was the Wellington which has a long history dating back into the early 19th century if not earlier. Depending on your age, you ...
Saturday, 25 January 2020

The Didsbury pub that never was ……………a case of mistaken identity and incompetence

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Now it is so easy to get things wrong when it comes to identifying a local pub. You start with a picture that looks vaguely familiar, d...