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.
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