First visited : Mid-80s
Now we're right in the centre of Rochdale. The Flying Horse is a huge pub in the Town Hall Square. I can't remember when I first went in but it was probably the mid-eighties as I often went to games by train from Littleborough and it's on the route (well one anyway) between station and stadium.
One visit I can date with certainty was on Friday 4th February 1994 as I used it as a meeting point for my leaving do from Tameside MBC. I had often made the trip to places like Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge for other peoples' so they were coming to Rochdale for mine ! We went on to the long-gone Dynasty Chinese restaurant opposite the bus station. I picked the Flying Horse because the Town Hall was probably the easiest landmark to find for those not familiar with the town. The realisation that that was twenty years ago now is terrifying !
I'm also fairly sure I went in there on my stag night ( 22 November 1997 ).
Perhaps due to its size and situation the Flying Horse has always seemed to me the classiest of the town centre pubs although no doubt it's seen its moments over the years. The current building dates from 1923 but there was an earlier pub of the same name on the site.
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