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21-05-2011, 11:40
Visit The Pub Curmudgeon site (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/05/dust-and-ashes.html)
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Here’s a picture of the now-closed Ash Hotel in Heaton Norris, Stockport, scene of the last night smoking lock-in described here (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/02/going-out-in-blaze-of-glory.html). It’s a rather magnificent redbrick Edwardian building in the Jacobean style. I hadn’t really appreciated before taking this photo how impressive the side elevation was as well. At one time it had its own bowling green at the side, later used as a beer garden.
By the time I first visited, it had been extensively altered inside, but it still retained a possibly unique free-standing hexagonal handpump stand in the space between the lounge and vault bar counters, and a “Cocktail Bar” in the left-hand lounge which was typical of 1960s attempts to make pubs appear more sophisticated. It later received a further nondescript refurbishment which involved reducing the public area and taking the large rear vault out of use. Now it will never trade as a pub again – reports say it is to be used as a bakery.
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Here’s a picture of the now-closed Ash Hotel in Heaton Norris, Stockport, scene of the last night smoking lock-in described here (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/02/going-out-in-blaze-of-glory.html). It’s a rather magnificent redbrick Edwardian building in the Jacobean style. I hadn’t really appreciated before taking this photo how impressive the side elevation was as well. At one time it had its own bowling green at the side, later used as a beer garden.
By the time I first visited, it had been extensively altered inside, but it still retained a possibly unique free-standing hexagonal handpump stand in the space between the lounge and vault bar counters, and a “Cocktail Bar” in the left-hand lounge which was typical of 1960s attempts to make pubs appear more sophisticated. It later received a further nondescript refurbishment which involved reducing the public area and taking the large rear vault out of use. Now it will never trade as a pub again – reports say it is to be used as a bakery.
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