First visited : 30 November 2014
This is our first still open pub in Tameside. I always know when I've crossed this municipal boundary because , having spent some time in Tameside MBC's Rates office at the start of my working life, all the street names are vaguely familiar. Of the nine "towns" that make up Tameside , Denton is geographically closest to Manchester and seems most like a suburb.
The Silver Springs is fairly central , on the road out to Ashton. My expectations were not high as the adjacent building is derelict and the entrance is festooned with notices about drugs, CCTV and low beer prices. The pub was also peripherally involved in the Dale Cregan case as one of his co-defendants was alleged to have pulled a gun on the landlord in 2004.
Inside however it's actually quite nice with what looks like a genuine Victorian bar with glass panels at its centre. It's clean and tidy throughout. It was practically empty this afternoon with just a couple of locals who looked quite rough but then one of them invited Simon to play pool with his son which was quite nice. I noted in the games room that they were hedging their bets by having both City and United pictures on the walls.
With no food and actually a fairly restricted range of drinks, I can't see myself going back there but there was nothing unpleasant about it.
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