How Manchester Saved its Oldest Pubs by Picking Them Up and Moving Them


f all of Manchester’s historic public houses, the timber-framed Tudor-period ‘Old Wellington’ and its nextdoor neighbour ‘Sinclair’s Oyster Bar’ are the two most famous. While it’s fairly common knowledge that they were moved to their current location in the 1990s to accommodate the regeneration of the city centre, not many people know where they came from, how old they actually are, what they’ve witnessed over the years… Or that they weren’t just moved once. But twice!

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