Pubs of Manchester

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Saturday 3 January 2015

Grove House / Jacobs Well, Ellor Street

Grove House, Ellor Street, Hanky Park. (c) Paul Wilson with posthumous permission.

Jacobs Well was a beerhouse on the corner of Ellor Street (bottom end) and Elizabeth Street in Hanky Park, opening in the mid-1850s.  Groves & Whitnall bought Jacobs Well by 1896 and the brewery renamed the beerhouse after themselves, as Grove House.  A compulsory purchase order in 1959 - presumably an early part of the Hanky Park slum clearances - saw off the Grove House in 1960.  Then landlords, George and Tilly Banner, moved to the Park Inn on Tatton Street, Ordsall, which was later to become the Rovers Return [1].

1. Salford Pubs Part Three: Including Cross Lane, Broad Street, Hanky Park, the Height, Brindleheath, Charlestown and Weaste, Neil Richardson (2003).

2 comments:

  1. The landlord and landlady were called Bramer not Banner

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  2. My great great grandfather , Frederick Mercer ran the pub in 1881 with his son Samuel. It was listed in the census as 162 Ellor Street, he was a beerhouse keeper so presumably it was an alehouse with no spirits on sale.

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