The Shamrock
Introduction
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The Shamrock
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 14 Jan 2017
According to Pubs of Manchester http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Shamrock%20-%20Bengal%20Street this quaint little back street pub halfway down Bengal Street (of Bengal Tigers infamy, as detailed in The Gangs of Manchester and the play Angels With Manky Faces) is the last remaining pub within Old Ancoats in an area that once housed an untold number of pubs. Shown as a Wilsons house in 1962 http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=72326 by 1984 it was a Burtonwoods pub and is a Marstons house today [2010]. It was described in the Manchester Guardian in 1862 as "Vault, brewhouse, grocer's shop and dwelling house", belonging to Renshaw & Cardwell's Hulme brewery. As its name suggests, it was an Irish pub, where the Orangemen and Catholics of Ancoats would mix freely. Nowadays it describe's itself http://www.shamrock-irishbar.co.uk/ as a hidden gem on the outskirts of the Northern Quarter with plasma screen showing all live Premiership Matches, a restaurant serving home cooked food and a beer garden. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.485788
Longitude
-2.227821