Ian, at last after four years of campaigning I have found a sympathetic voice. If you see an earlier thread of mine, I discovered that Gail out of Coronation Street used to drink (and no doubt smoke) there - did you date her? And why with a good catchment area was it allowed to go belly up (Mr Butcher next door told me it was dodgy landlord/s)
Baggy Dave, every bit helps
Gail out of Coronation Street was a tasty looking 'bird' when she was younger but I never knew she drank in there.
I didn't go in there much to be honest as it was too clostaphobic for me.
I would only go for a drink there on a Monday night and meet my cousin who was a Freemason, his Masonic Lodge had their meetings in the upstairs room.
Friday and Saturday nights plus Sunday lunch times was standing room only in both bars.
The small public on the right and the saloon on the left with the bar being in the middle of the pub and it was a Charrington house if I remember righty ? Even my Dad stopped drinking there because it got too packed!
The demise of the MPH was bad landlords who took over in the late eighties. A female friend of mine was going out with one of them.
It used to have after hours drinking and one hot Sunday afternoon in the mid nineties during a lock-in there was a fight and someone got stabbed.
The air ambulance landed in the 'bone-yard' and took the guy to hospital.
The pub lost it's licence and closed down.
Before it was converted into flats there were a couple of rumours.
One was Wetherspoon were looking at re-opening it and the other was it was going to be a drug rehabilitation centre.
So now you know the full story.
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