Oxford Street Rock Pub Manchester

[Mr. MIGKY]

Well maybe not 
Just found Peter Bostock
Dinning rooms
80 Oxford street
1863 directory

Migky 

[annafabulous]

Thankyou Migky! Just speaking to the regulars downstairs & figured out the picture, it's further up the road!

[Barbara.H]

Very good Mig... we only serve spirits  

Anyway about your picture.  The Hippodrome was pulled down in the 1930s. It was opposite Portland St, where the McDonalds is now. So if that is in the lower left, your picture is looking towards St Peters Square, not past GC and the Palace. So its a view toward St Peters Square before the Central Library was built.

Just looked at your images and I'm sure thats what it is. That is the Cenotaph in the distance. Just a Kiss is the Princes Theatre, became the Gaumont Cinema and then (oh joy) Romanovs and Rotters disco.


  Barbara

[Mr. MIGKY]

More dead bodies for you 

1861 Census
80 Oxford street.
Peter Bostock 26  Eating house
Hannah Bostock 31
Ellen Salisbury 26 domestic servant
Theodore Kummant 22  boarder

Source: RG9; Piece: 2943; Folio: 97; Page: 36; GSU roll: 543053.

Migky 

Found Peter Bostock & an Edward T Kummant buried in the same grave. Spooky or what.
After a phone call to a friend, who tells me Peter died age 68 and died at the 80 Oxford road address and was still a beer retailer. Buried 11th June 1904
Now Edward ( shame it wasn't an Alice as i know a song about that    ) who ever he turns out to be?
Edward buried 26th Sept 1904 and was a restaurant keeper in Didsbury.

Both buried in the same grave at Southern cemetery
Church of England section
Grave number C277

Migky 

[annafabulous]

Think we've found our first ghost!!!   

[Mr. MIGKY]

I found Hannah Bostock
She died age 67 at the 80 Oxford road address to.
Buried in Southern cemetery on 28th Feb 1893
Church of England section.
Grave number C227

With in 6 months later Peter remarried.
Annie Cummant Mar 1/4 1894
At Manchester Cathedral (formerly Manchester Collegiate Church)

Found them on the 1901 at the 80 Oxford road address.
Peter Bostock 65
Annie Bostock 31
Florrie Oliver 16 Servent
Ida Paton 9 Nice
Fanny Stephenson 27 Servent

Source: RG13; Piece: 3747; Folio: 8; Page: 7.


Migky 

[annafabulous]

He remarried an Annie Cummant... I wonder if that's just another spelling Kummant, and Annie was related to Edward - the restaurant owner in Didsbury?

[Mr. MIGKY]

Could well be? As Edward seems to have been Polish you know what they are like for changing names to fit the English language.
Will look to see if Edward pops up as Cummant tomorrow if i have time?

Migky 

[annafabulous]

That would be brilliant please