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Which Pub is this.
Which Pub is this.
Photo: Mark Conroy
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Item #: 15212
I'm sure I took this photo in a Wigan pub but I can't make out which it is.
The year is 1979 and Pete Blackburn is on the left and Dennis Johnson on the right.Forgot who that is in the middle?

Comment by: 1934granada on 6th July 2010 at 12:17

Pear Tree vault perhaps?

Comment by: margaret on 6th July 2010 at 18:42

could it be beech hill labour club?

Comment by: Mark Conroy on 6th July 2010 at 21:04

I've remembered and its the Market Hotel in the room on the right as you went in. It was about the only time we went in that room as we were waiting for a taxi and could see ouside,I think. We always used the back room normally.

Comment by: Dave Johnson on 7th July 2010 at 15:36

Don't think it's the Market, looks more like a games room. My first thought was Central Labour Club, did you ever go in there?

Comment by: Mark Conroy on 7th July 2010 at 16:24

Yes I did go in the Central, Dave..you could be right. My memory may be confused.

Comment by: farrie50 on 7th July 2010 at 19:05

the box on the wall looks like a meter for the snooker table light ,which suggests a games room 8iqho

Comment by: Art on 8th July 2010 at 00:28

It isn't the Pear Tree, the ceiling's too high.
Harp Lager was served in Burtonwoods pubs tho'

Comment by: Cyril on 8th July 2010 at 11:25

Is that Dennis who was the diesel train driver?

Comment by: Mark Conroy on 8th July 2010 at 12:39

Yes it is Cyril

Comment by: Cyril on 8th July 2010 at 17:15

Thanks Mark I knew Dennis from The Dog & Partridge and The Raven, this photo could have been taken in the vault of The Bricklayers in Hallgate, it definitely isn't The All Saint's Tavern which was further down as the walls aren't splattered with blood.

Comment by: Mark Conroy on 8th July 2010 at 17:50

I don't think its the Bricklayers as I only went in there very rarely Cyril.

Comment by: gee h on 11th July 2010 at 16:18

Its def not the Bricklayers vault, could it be the Crofters?? im sure the vault in there was shaped the same with windows looking out to the alley at the side.

Comment by: Bill Green on 18th August 2010 at 12:25

A month late, I know, but this is Central Labour Club --now Riley's - as Dave Johnson has said. The snooker metre's the give away.

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