Saturday, 28 September 2013
56 The Summit - Heywood
First visited : 28 September 2013
After Heap Bridge the A58 starts a long climb up to Heywood and the pub at the top of the hill is called appropriately enough The Summit. The building is not particularly attractive with its cream-covered cladding but it's in a relatively nice area, is still open and looks to have had a fresh coat of paint recently.
I visited it at tea time this afternoon after watching Dale make hard work of a 3-2 victory over Wycombe from being 3-0 up after half an hour. It was still reasonably busy with a football-watching crowd catered for by three separate screens. The décor is fairly Spartan but it's clean and comfortable. There are live bands most Saturday nights and a quiz night on Mondays.
Saturday, 21 September 2013
55 Old Boar's Head - Heap Bridge
Not visited
The Old Boar's Head was just a few yards further up the road from The Bridge. It has now been demolished .
54 Bridge Inn - Heap Bridge
Not visited
Anyone familiar with the area will realise that we missed the Roach Hotel ( still open ) and the Seven Stars ( now Automoney ) on Rochdale Road before arriving in Heap Bridge.
The Bridge was unmissable, a large detatched red brick building serving this small industrial community. At the time we were passing through the huge Yates Duxbury paper mill nearby was still open but it fell in the Thatcher recession of the early eighties.
I'm not sure when the pub closed but the building is now Emerald House, the headquarters of an import/export firm.
53 Peel Hotel - Bury
First Visited : 21st September 2013
At last we've come to one that's still open ! The Peel Hotel survives amid mainly Asian-owned businesses on Rochdale Road. I visited on a Saturday lunchtime and found it friendly and quiet with a few unthreatening middle-aged regulars knocking about. It's reasonably clean although the toilets could do with a lick of paint and there are what look like original glass fittings over the bar. The walls are decorated with some mildly interesting photos of old Bury.
Sunday, 15 September 2013
52 New Road - Bury
Not visited
This one was situated on Rochdale Road at the junction with Heywood St opposite The Crown, not as I recorded in Heap Bridge. There is now a car park where the pub stood.
51 Crown Hotel, Bury
Not visited
This one was situated a bit further along Rochdale Road. It closed sometime between 2010 and 2012. This is getting a bit depressing isn't it ?
50 The Claybank - Bury
Not visited
This was situated on Rochdale Road as you left the town centre. It has now been demolished.
49 The Royal Huntsman -Bury
Not visited
This was a large pub which was demolished as part of the town centre redevelopment in 1985.
48 George Hotel, Bury
Visited : ?
We have now reached Bury town centre with this one overlooking the bus station. It closed down around four or years ago I think and had a rough reputation. It is now a card and balloon shop.
I put a question mark against this one because I have a vague memory of popping into a town centre pub in Bury in August 1987 to kill time prior to a pre-season game at Gigg Lane ( I recall our new signing Mark Gavin looking impressive ) and this pub is a good candidate.
Saturday, 14 September 2013
47 The Derby Arms - Bury
Not visited
I think we missed one called The Wellington which lies in between the Jolly Carter and this because it doesn't look new.
The Derby Arms lay just before the junction with Ainsworth Road which is where I turn off for home coming back from Rochdale games. Although I never patronised it, it caught the attention by painting the gable end showing in the photo above with a St George Cross whenever England were playing in an international tournament. I think it shut down a year or so ago. It has now been demolished and the site is a car park for a car showroom.
46 The Jolly Carters - Bury
Not visited
The Jolly Carters ( which I misrecorded as The Holly Carters ) was on the left hand side of the A58 as it starts dropping into the centre of Bury.
When I started this blog it was an Indian restaurant, the Mumbai Lounge and the reason for the lack of movement here for the past couple of years is simply that I couldn't afford to go there. They didn't offer any sort of deals at quiet times and it seemed too self-indulgent to buy a pricey meal while I was ( and still am ) underemployed. However they've now solved the problem by shutting down so we can move on. It was never in the right place to be so expensive and so the building is currently vacant.
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