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Christopher

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Boddington's Strangeway Brewery.
« on: 07:30:13, 20/11/07 »
Hi all,

I hope some of you can assist.

I've spotted a website about the closure of Boddington's Strangeways Brewery. It looks as though it's a couple of years old. Did the combined effort of the City Council, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) manage to save the historic site?

We've a similar problem, on a smaller scale, in Belfast with the Campaign to Save the Rotterdam Bar. I was talking to some musicians from Nottingham who were playing there on Sunday. They'd played at the The Cobblestone, a traditional Irish music bar, on the edge of the renovated Smithfield Plaza in Dublin on Saturday and said that it might well be facing a similar fate. Are any of Manchester's old bars likely to be pulled down? A similar situation is happening in New York ... in October the New York State Liquor Authority denied the application to transfer the liquor license from the old Orchard Bar to 200 Orchard on the grounds that it was not in the best interests of the community.

Does anyone know of any bodies one can approach ... Click here to see what has been done to date to save the Belfast bar.

Christopher
 

celeste

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Re: Boddington's Strangeway Brewery.
« Reply #1 on: 16:13:51, 20/11/07 »
Arthur might be able to assist, I know he has visited a lot of the Manchester bars
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Re: Boddington's Strangeway Brewery.
« Reply #2 on: 21:55:52, 03/12/07 »
Arthur might be able to assist, I know he has visited a lot of the Manchester bars

The brewary closed in 2005 - not sure what the building has been used for since - boddingtons cask is brewed at the hydes anvil brewery and mostly abroad - they had that great =crea, of manchester' ad campaign going too - shame - though never a great beer it's not a bad one
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