( This entry has been amended following Colin K's information below )
First visited : 28 March 2015
The Martin's Nest was situated on the old Manchester Road. It had a name change to the Waggon & Horses some time ago.
I always thought of this as a friendly pub from when I used to travel to away games on the Rochdale FC Supporters Club coaches. If we'd won the match people drinking at the outside tables would applaud the coach as it passed on its way back to Spotland which was rather nice.
Today's visit was therefore something of a disappointment. It's a big pub with five different rooms around the bar but this teatime it was cold, pretty bare and empty with just half a dozen other customers lined up at the bar including two ladies singing along to eighties hits played at deafening volume. A stage set up for karaoke or something similar suggests it gets livelier at other times but there was nothing to encourage me to make another visit.
This is a photo of the Windmill, it's been closed/for sale a few years now. The Martin's Nest is a separate pub 200m away on the same stretch of the bypassed old Manchester Road.
ReplyDeleteThanks Colin. Do you know when it was closed or what's there now ?
ReplyDeleteMike, I was passing the Windmill a few weeks ago, it's still for sale but the exterior is in a poor state now. (http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/rochdale_windmill.html)
ReplyDeleteGoogle Street View from 2009: https://goo.gl/maps/BqI79
I also walked past the Martin's Nest. It had a name change some time ago and is now "Waggon and Horses".
Google Street View from 2009: https://goo.gl/maps/uvIXH