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Bengal Street, MANCHESTER, M4 6AF

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

Sign for the Shamrock Image

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

Sign for The Shamrock Image

Traditional public house at the corner of Silk Street and Bengal Street.

At the corner of George Leigh Street and Bengal Street Image

The Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246277 Victoria Square was Manchester's first municipal housing, built in 1889, by Henry Spalding and A.W.Cross. It is in red brick with terracotta dressings and slate roofs. There is a square courtyard plan with balcony access inside the courtyard. It opened in 1894 and was intended for 825 people in 237 double tenements and 48 single. The flats had internal bathrooms and the Square had shared laundries with drying facilities in the top rooms of the corner towers - an attempt to rid homes of the damp air from drying clothes and thus reduce bronchial complaints. Demolition was proposed in 1970 but, since receiving Grade II listing in 1988, the flats have been extensively refurbished and converted into old people's dwellings, managed by Northward Housing and featuring 163 modern one- and two-bed flats. This photograph shows the corner of George Leigh Street and Bengal Street. It also fronts on to Sherratt Street and Oldham Road. Image

Building in Ancoats.

Demolition site alongside Bengal Street in Ancoats.

The M4nchester Two development in Ancoats.