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Gin palaces in Manchester: blessed gaudiness
As you might expect, when it comes to writing about gin palaces, London seems to hog the limelight, but they popped up all across England in the early 19th century, including Manchester. Without...
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News, nuggets and longreads 18 April 2020: Liverpool, Collyhurst, Heywood
Here’s all the beer and pub related writing that grabbed our attention in the past week, including a bumper crop of notes on pubs and beer festivals in the North West of England. We’ve been asking...
View ArticleWatered-down beer in Oldham, 1960
In 1960, a mysterious man slid into pubs in and around Oldham and secretly tested the strength of the beer. What he found was criminal. We first came across a version of this story back in 2016 when...
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Two decades of overlooking the obvious in central Manchester
Manchester has many wonderful old-fashioned pubs that, for some reason, we’d overlooked until last weekend. Why haven’t we spent more time in The Peveril of the Peak, The Britons Protection, The City...
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The Alpine Gasthof: let’s crack this
The Alpine Gasthof in Rochdale is something of a mystery. Why is there a replica of a German building in Lancashire? When was it built? And who designed it? We wrote the first version of this post in...
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