Oxford Street Rock Pub Manchester

[annafabulous]

It is indeed the same pub and it's still going strong! Is there anything you can tell me about the Beef and Barley such as the names of the owners or managers or anything?

[amram]

I can't remember the name of the landlord then, but I do remember him coming over to have a drink with The S's landlord StJean Kelly. I left Mcr for Canada in 1978, so dont know what happened next but I will ask a friend, she will know, she worked there too.

[Mr. MIGKY]

As part of the local history library is shut for renovation at Manchester library, you could take a wee trip over to Salford local history library as the have all the same Directories and you can look up every two years up to 1969 ( when the telephone book took over ) and see who was at 80 Oxford street.

Salford Local History Library Address Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Peel Park
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WU
Telephone 0161 778 0814
Email local.history[at]salford.gov.uk

Migky 

[Barbara.H]

I can't tell you anything useful  other than I did go there once or twice when it was the Shady Lady, that would be sometime between 1977 and 1985.

I recall it was a very cramped place with low ceilings, it easily got overcrowded so that's why I didn't go there often. ooh another memory, Breakout and Space Invaders were on the machines, so that would make it late 70s perhaps?

Hope that jogs someone else's memory a bit better than I've jogged my own!
  Barbara

[Mr. MIGKY]

This might be of use if and when you do get in Manchester library?

Click for Manchester records

Seems you are one shady lady Barbara    that and playing about on Jacksons clay pit 

Migky

[amram]

Grey cells are working.....
Between the Beef and Barley and The Shady Lady it was called the Cork and Screw.
In fact it was probably that when I worked at the Salisbury for 10months (77/78). May have been a brief incarnation. Probably became Shady Lady in 1979.

[Mr. MIGKY]

Err! i hope the Guinness has improved since march

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Migky 

[Mr. MIGKY]

A little bit about one of the early landlords

Dayffd (David) Lewis and his wife Annie Elizabeth Lewis are buried together in Southern cemetery.
Church of England section. Grave number H 1830.
If you start a new post on the look ups section, asking if any one is willing to see if there is a headstone and photograph it for you, i am sure you will get some kind soul who will do anything for a freebie pint
Dafydd died  age 71
buried 20th Feb 1926

His wife Annie Elizabeth Lewis in the same grave died ages 79 and was buried on 24th March 1949.

Migky 

[TSB]

hi annafabulous
sorry i am late in repling istand corrected
i said it was called the oxford i was wrong,the oxford was faceing
the palace theater   now pulled down.
before it was called the beef and barley it was the oxford bar
oxford street.hope this helps
                      tsb