The Shamrock

Image: © Gerald England Taken: 11 May 2021

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) was 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 then a Marstons house in 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. When photographed in 2017 Image its website described itself 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. It was closed by Marstons in 2018 and earmarked for demolition. Whatpub https://whatpub.com/pubs/MAN/9796/shamrock-inn-ancoats reports "It was bought by Holts in March 2019 who will be undertaking a major redevelopment but not until 2020." For the moment then it remains boarded up and its future uncertain. Image

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