Halfway House pub sign, 435 Manchester Road
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Halfway House pub sign, 435 Manchester Road
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 2 May 2010
The name apparently originates from the pub's location approximately halfway between Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne. The sign shows a horse-drawn coach outside a building which doesn't look remotely like the present one. Maybe this was the original pub? It's interesting to reflect on the changes in public transport running along this road over the past 200 years - horse-drawn coaches, double-deck trams, electric trolleybuses, motor buses and from early 2012 modern single-deck articulated trams. Image Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.480765
Longitude
-2.166767