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Rosamond Street, MANCHESTER, M15 6EB

Bus stop near Boundary Street West and Cavendish Street.

The large red building on the left labelled "Liberty Living" is given over to student accommodation.

The pub opened in 1974 as a Wilson's House but soon changed to Watney's. It stands in the shadow of some of Hulme's surviving flats on the corner of Boundary Lane and Booth Street West. Having stood empty for a long time it seemed quite likely to be demolished to make room for yet more student accommodation. http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/gamecock-boundary-lane.html In 1993 it was a Belhaven Brewery tied house. http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/manchester_m15_gamecock.html but by the time of its closure it was Tetley's house. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/pubs/gamecock.html An application for student accommodation on the site was turned down in 2012 on the grounds that the development would be out of scale with the two-storey residential houses nearby, would block out sunlight and there was also a lack of adequate parking. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/application-to-build-giant-block-of-students-693402

Probably a former estate pub, not especially interesting to the casual observer, but possessing a certain nostalgia value for me and so I'm sorry to see it fall on hard times. While a student in Manchester living in a nearby hall of residence, Cornbrook House, a few of us made this pub a reasonably regular haunt. We would often play darts. This was in 1987/88 and people would have you believe that in the bad old days of Hulme, before the crescents were pulled down, it wouldn't have been possible for a group of students to enter a locals' pub like this and emerge with their limbs intact. However, there was never a sniff of trouble. Update and more info: Image

The Gamecock public house.

The Salutation, known as “Sal” to regulars, is shown on old maps to have stood at the corner Boundary Street and Higher Chatham Street from at least as early as 1844. It is thought to be one of only two pubs in Manchester to have retained its 1840s décor. The Sal was saved from closure when it was bought by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011. At the time, a spokesman for MMU said The Salutation Pub is a local landmark which has been a popular haunt of Manchester Met staff and students over many years. Buying a pub is a bit out of the ordinary but represents a strategic acquisition for the university – surrounded by land which we either own or occupy” (http://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/save-the-sal/ Manchester’s Finest). As a testament to its history, the Boundary Street side of the building bears a blue plaque commemorating Charlotte Brontë’s visit to Manchester in 1846 when she began to write the novel Jane Eyre (Image]).

Heading south.

Blue plaque on the Boundary Street side of Image CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855) In 1846 The Revd. Patrick Bronte came to Manchester for a cataract operation accompanied by his daughter Charlotte. They took lodgings at 59 Boundary Street West (formerly known as 83 Mount Pleasant). It was here that Charlotte began to write her first successful novel Jane Eyre 2005