Beautifully Ugly - The Last Estate Pubs of Manchester
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2021
- Love them or loathe them, estate pubs are a symbol of a bygone era - of a regeneration trend in the 1960s and 70s that swept across the nation, wiping away old tired neighbourhoods and replacing them with new, bold and ambitious designs. Tower blocks, concrete lines, composite constructions, streets in the sky. With the new houses came new pubs and they were equally as unusual in their simple modernist, even brutalist design. Strange cuboids and odd sloping roofs.
But now those estates are changing once again, and the pubs are going one at a time. Pubs in general are struggling, and these ones get little sympathy. But their dwindling numbers make them historic and endlessly fascinating. For some reason I've fallen for them.
And Manchester (and the surrounding area) has a lot to answer for.
Speaking as a retired German Shepherd, I spent the best years of my life in the 80's prowling around the flat-roofed, heavily barb-wired part of one of these architectural gems- snarling at punters and so on.
Thank you for calling out Farage as a toff who puts on a 'man of the people' act. Can't believe people still fall for it
As my old dad used to say, if you don't want a glass in your face, never drink in a pub with a flat roof...
My dad spent all his working life as a joiner, he told me when new estates were built the first thing to be built was the pub to give the workers somewhere to go at dinner time! Oo how the world has changed and i don't think for the better.
Tiger Moth in Irlam is a jewel in the crown of Irlam. When a large gas blast damaged a few dozen houses locally they opened their doors and gave board, food and drink to all. Lockdown they did special days to get people out their homes and socialising. Seamus and Eileen would give their shirts of their back to help their community. With it being on an estate - back 40 years ago it got a bad name due to it's football team of the day being a bit boisterous. Them days are long gone. Now it's full of local people who help each other, play darts, pool, dominoes and have a good chat. So if you live close by call in and give it a try. By your 3rd or 4th visit you too will be one of the Tiger family...
Sean Locke's dad, allegedly, once gave him the advice " Never drink in a pub with a flat roof". I totally agree.
"never drink in a flat roofed pub"
We should visit as many pubs as possible ..they will soon all be gone..
I drank my first pint in the Artillery Arms in Chorlton on Medlock. I was 15 years old, and looked it. I paid my one shilling and elevenpence halfpenny, and felt like a giant. I winced at the intense bitterness of what must have been my pint of Wilson's, but I never looked back.
Great piece, thank you. These pubs are being swept away, and while many of them may have been great places to have a drink amongst friends old and new, too many of them were places where the local bullies and self appointed hard men tried to make up for their many inadequecies.
That was brilliant, really pulled at the heart strings.
I built all the Concrete entrances for these pubs around Ancoats,Collyhurst,Bradford ect as entrances over services had to be constructed of reinforced Concrete that made it compulsory to try them all out when they later opened.
Great video
This video is fucking great!
Uglyful
The Red Beret in Wythenshawe is a classic of the genre!
Brilliant video.
Ive been in yhe Thompson arm's and the Garratt in Gorton wasdown the Red lane from me.
My friend use to go to the Swinging Sporran.
Retro used to host touring punk bands in the early 90s when it was The Swinging Sporran.