Three pictures ..... one place ..... and another pub vanishes

I am not sure I believe that story that when another pub closes Eric Postlethwaite calls last orders and rings his bell somewhere in the vast licensing hall in the sky.

2020

But who am I to challenge the myth?

Instead I present three days in the life of the Farmer's Arms on Stockport Road  in Edgeley accompanied by Andy Robertson's observation on his pictures, "The Farmers Arms flattened on a flaming Friday in February.   Friday and February may or may not have been involved but I do like the liberal use of F words!"

On a May day in 2020 all seemed well, by November of the following year the place had gone dark and a week ago there was just a hole in the ground. 

2021

'nuff said.

2024

Location Stockport

Pictures; three days in the life of the Farmer's Arms, 2020, 2021, and 2024, from the collection of Andy Robertson

Stockport’s loss …… the Railway ….Avenue Street

There will be someone who will have stories of the Railway on Avenue Street.

Andy tells me it has closed, which means it has been lost to us only recently, because only last year various pub guides announced its continuing presence.

It is  a pub I have never visited but I liked his picture of the lamp advertising Porter Ales.

Once and not that long ago such lamps were standard adornments to pubs, lighting the way in the semi darkness to a place of beer and good cheer.

But like those similar blue lamps outside police stations and the stripy poles advertising a barber’s shop, pub lamps have had their day.

So that is it.

Location, Stockport










Pictures; the Railway, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson