The Spara's
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The Spara's
Image: © David Lally Taken: 29 Aug 2008
This pub on Gladstone Street I expected to see closed-down and converted to a house. Instead I find it rebranded with an Irish Theme. For many years this was a Boddingtons pub called The Victoria Vaults. All the locals however knew it as "The Spara's" after a long-left landlord called Sparrow. Perhaps about eight years ago it was renamed "The Sparrows" with a suitable sign portraying a male passer domesticus but within the last two it has become Flanagan's.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.441322
Longitude
-1.949077