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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: curlywurly on Sunday 26 July 09 15:40 BST (UK)
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Hi!
I'm hoping that someone may be able to help me. I was given an old family photo album, which included the photo's below. I would be very interested to know any information anybody may be able to give me about them, as I have no information about them at all or any possible ideas of what the groups of people are there for.
Alexandra Park Hotel
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/curlywurly/Family/alexandraparkhotel008.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/curlywurly/Family/pub1011.jpg)
Thank you for taking the time to look att these. Any help is very much appreciated :)
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Hello Curlywurly,
Both photos show what I think must be the Brewery connected with the pub, which might help you find more information.
The first is Wilsons Brewery (you can see a sign in the window) and the second is Kays Atlas Brewery.
This website has some pictures of old Manchester pubs, but unfortunately not many of the actual frontages of them. http://www.breweryhistory.com/Defunct/Manchester.htm
Yorkslass
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A newer photo of the Alexandra can be seen here
http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/Display.php?irn=46144&QueryPage=%2F
One of the Moss Side Rootschatters may know if it is still up
even better type Inns, Alexandra Park into the search engine on the images site
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Thank you so much for your help! ;D I will go and have a look at those sites now and see if I can gather any information
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1913 Alexandra public house/Hotel was at 227 Moss lane east. Moss side. Run by a Mr George Burgess & Harry Milner Kennedy by 1929.
Migky ;)
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MIGKY has come up with the Alexandra Hotel which was on the junction of Moss Lane East and Princess Road (opposite the Harp (previously Newcastle & Scottish) brewery). It was known locally as the 'Big Alex' and was owned by Threlfall's/Chester's (later Whitbread). It was demolished about 30 years ago I think.
There was also a 'Little Alex' - officially called the 'Alexandra Park Hotel' which was a approx 300/400 yards away, just off Moss Lane at no 3 Alexandra Road. This was certainly a Wilson's house and would seem to be the pub in the photo. In later years it was owned by Vaux, but last time I was round there it was boarded up.
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Thank you for all the information ;)
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NO 1 & 3 Alexandra Road Moss side. 1929 was Mrs Lily Ann Bowers, beer retailer. Known as " The little Alex" much like two other pub round there at the time " the big western & the little western "
NO 1 & 3 Alexandra Road Moss side. 1895 was Mrs Elizabeth Ann Tomlinson, beer retailer.
At the same address late 1910 to early 1912 was:
SAMUEL COMPBELL abt 1883 age 28 Chorlton
ETHEL MAY COMPBELL abt 1879 age 32 Chorlton
VINCENT COMPBELL abt 1907 age 4 Chorlton
Migky ;)
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Hi: Probably too late for you, but by 1953 it was:
Alexandra Park Hotel: (Mrs Eliz Bennett). 1 and 3 Alexandra Rd, M S 16.
Best wishes
Emms
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MIGKY has come up with the Alexandra Hotel which was on the junction of Moss Lane East and Princess Road (opposite the Harp (previously Newcastle & Scottish) brewery). It was known locally as the 'Big Alex' and was owned by Threlfall's/Chester's (later Whitbread). It was demolished about 30 years ago I think.
There was also a 'Little Alex' - officially called the 'Alexandra Park Hotel' which was a approx 300/400 yards away, just off Moss Lane at no 3 Alexandra Road. This was certainly a Wilson's house and would seem to be the pub in the photo. In later years it was owned by Vaux, but last time I was round there it was boarded up.
jfp is right there was the big alex+the little alex,ive fallen out of both of them,ime pretty sure that the photo,is the little alex.
happy days ;D
mack
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The boys on the "Little Alex" photo are all wearing buttonholes as if they are off to a wedding. Not many ladies present tho, other than one in the centre of the front row and a couple of others lurking at the back.
Perhaps some Robinson's fan may recognise the other pub. Robbies site says they acquired Kays Atlas Brewery Ltd of Ardwick in 1929 so the pub in question was probably rebranded as Robbies after that.
http://www.frederic-robinson.co.uk/robinsons/
It looks like a street corner pub that's expanded into the house next door.
Looks like no 110 on the door.
Perhaps it was a ladies' day out and the girls were waiting for a chara' to
the seaside. ???
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MIGKY has come up with the Alexandra Hotel which was on the junction of Moss Lane East and Princess Road (opposite the Harp (previously Newcastle & Scottish) brewery). It was known locally as the 'Big Alex' and was owned by Threlfall's/Chester's (later Whitbread). It was demolished about 30 years ago I think.
There was also a 'Little Alex' - officially called the 'Alexandra Park Hotel' which was a approx 300/400 yards away, just off Moss Lane at no 3 Alexandra Road. This was certainly a Wilson's house and would seem to be the pub in the photo. In later years it was owned by Vaux, but last time I was round there it was boarded up.
jfp is right there was the big alex+the little alex,ive fallen out of both of them,ime pretty sure that the photo,is the little alex.
happy days ;D
mack
http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/Display.php?irn=46144&QueryPage=%2F confirms the which public house it is
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I don't think there is any doubt about the identity of the pub in the first picture but the Kay's house in the second picture is obviously (to me, anyway) a completely different place and we've not had a hint of a name for that yet.
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Hi
Playing with the unidentified pub in imaging software, and looking at the windows, there's the huge heart shape, which you can see any way, but I don't know if it's just me, but there seems to be a CAT on the window. Part of a word? There are other bits of lettering/decoration, too.
Curlywurly, I wonder if you'd mind me having a mail with the original on? Then I could play without all the extra shadows from the sixe reduction? Or maybe you'll get the ]]]] a real expert on the go!!
Best wishes
Emms
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I forwarded the Kays pub picture to Robbies brewery to see if anyone there recognised it and received the folowling reply:-
Kays Atlas Brewery
Your email dated the 29th July has been shown to me. Although I have the longest experience at the Brewery, I am afraid I have no idea which Kays pub is shown in the picture that you attached to your email.
Most of Kays houses were in Manchester and have long since been demolished or, in one or two cases, they were bombed in the war.
I have never seen an existing Kays property looking anything like the one in your picture.
Yours sincerely
Ah well, it was worth a try. :(
Thanks to the chairman and his secretary for taking the time to look at the photo and send a reply.
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I forwarded the Kays pub picture to Robbies brewery to see if anyone there recognised it and received the folowling reply:-
Kays Atlas Brewery
Your email dated the 29th July has been shown to me. Although I have the longest experience at the Brewery, I am afraid I have no idea which Kays pub is shown in the picture that you attached to your email.
Most of Kays houses were in Manchester and have long since been demolished or, in one or two cases, they were bombed in the war.
I have never seen an existing Kays property looking anything like the one in your picture.
Yours sincerely
Ah well, it was worth a try. :(
Thanks to the chairman and his secretary for taking the time to look at the photo and send a reply.
Thank you so much for doing this for me. Shame we didn't get the answer we would have liked, but it was kind of you to go to the trouble of emailing for me. And yes, I would also like to thank the chairman and his secretary for takinf the time to reply.
This is a fantastic site, with lovely people. Thank you everyone for all your help ;D
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I forwarded the Kays pub picture to Robbies brewery to see if anyone there recognised it and received the folowling reply:-
Kays Atlas Brewery
Your email dated the 29th July has been shown to me. Although I have the longest experience at the Brewery, I am afraid I have no idea which Kays pub is shown in the picture that you attached to your email.
Most of Kays houses were in Manchester and have long since been demolished or, in one or two cases, they were bombed in the war.
I have never seen an existing Kays property looking anything like the one in your picture.
Yours sincerely
Ah well, it was worth a try. :(
Thanks to the chairman and his secretary for taking the time to look at the photo and send a reply.
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Update on 'Little Alex' situation - it's gone - went past today and in the way of the 'Fallowfield', 'Seymour', 'Princess' and many other pubs in Manchester, it's been demolished and replaced by a block of flats. :(
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Hi,
This is another reason why everyone should put written information on the back of photographs.
To help any future genealogists who may crop up after me I write any info on white stick on labels so as not to mark the pictures.
Stops all the frustration caused by our ancestors.I have a load of photographs of my
family who I cannot identify & no-one surviving to tell me who they were.
Regards
Betty