Historic Manchester Pub Walk

The Old Wellington is a timber-framed building covered in black and white lath and plaster, standing out against the brick and stone of the modern city center. Built around fifteen fifty-two, it served as a cloth merchant's house before…

The Shakespeare pub on Fountain Street features a stark, black-and-white timber-framed facade that stands out against the surrounding stone buildings. This structure originally sat on the corner of Great Bridgewater Street and Oxford…

The facade of Mr Thomas’s Chop House wears a distinctive skin of decorative terracotta tiling, colored in deep creams and browns. Established in eighteen sixty-seven by Thomas Studd, the restaurant occupies a narrow sliver of land that…

A bronze figure of Sir Ralph Abercromby stands atop a tall stone plinth in the center of the square. This general holds a telescope in his left hand, his gaze fixed toward the horizon. Sculptor Richard Westmacott cast the statue in…

The Britons Protection stands out with its curved, dark-tiled corner facade, squeezed onto the edge of a busy street. It takes its name from an old friendly society that met here to help soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars. Inside,…

The Peveril of the Peak wears a coat of glazed green and yellow tiles that shine even on the gloomiest Manchester afternoons. This corner building serves as a public house, named after a nineteenth century stagecoach route that ran between…

The Lass O'Gowrie sits on the corner of Charles and Brook Street, marked by its distinctive green tiles and rounded brick frontage. It spent the nineteenth century as a standard Victorian pub serving the workers of Manchester's textile…