First visited : Spring 1998
Well we put it in the book but this was always a restaurant rather than a pub.
I don't think you can count sitting in the porch as a visit so I didn't enter the place until nearly twenty years later for a meal with Manchester Christian Social Group. I can't find it on the printed programmes so it must have been a replacement for something else.
It wasn't a happy occasion. Although Julie and I were now married she still felt that the MCSG occupied too much of my attention and the focus of her ire was generally my friend Aamir the co-ordinator. He said something that she took exception to - almost certainly something very trivial - and she tipped her glass onto his food and walked out into the night . I assumed she'd gone to the toilet and it was some time before I realised she was no longer in the building. You'd have to ask her why a four mile walk back home in high heels on a cold dark night seemed preferable to our society.
I have a feeling we went back there a few years later for a meal with Bolton Outdoor Group but I can't be bothered rooting around for the exact date.
It closed in August 2012 when the owners sold out to property developers.
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