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Aytoun Street, MANCHESTER, M1 3BL

Off Chatham Street.

Piccadilly Gardens car park is on the right.

From near the Portland Street crossing, the trailing crossover laid in Aytoun Street can be seen.

Towards Piccadilly Gardens.

On Gore Street, convenient for Piccadilly Station. Central bar with eating and drinking areas left, front and right; function room upstairs. Games machines, wood panelling, on two levels. Chinese food is served at lunchtime. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Heavy Industry Electric Mountain, Robinsons Blonde.

The Waldorf on Gore Street, according to Pubs of Manchester http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/1-waldorf.html was originally called the Woseley Hotel under Louis Walhauser, so named in 1883 to commemorate the visit of General Lord Woseley to Manchester to fund the building of the Woseley Masonic Lodge. By 1891 Francis Turner was registered as beerhouse keeper at the Woseley, and by 1901 Sarah Ann Clulow was recorded there. Her daughter, Kate, who had previously worked as barmaid at the Queens Hotel on Portland Street, then took over. The Woseley changed hands a few times after that until John Clough took over in 1929 and renamed it the Waldorf Hotel, which may have been in honour of the Waldorf Chop House which had stood on Thomas Street prior to this. The Waldorf has an upstairs bar for functions and gigs and the whole place had a refurb in 2009, meaning it's reasonably smart whilst maintaining a bit of back-in-the-day character - boards and stone floor - like it probably had in the '70s. It has a central bar offering service on three sides and a side door entrance onto Roby Street which is handy for smokers. It was closed against for refurbishment in August 2016 Image but is now open again.