It's a quaint and curious pub, one that you're drawn to as you step off the train at Manchester's Oxford Road station. Exiting the concourse the night draws you down a narrow flight of concrete steps - and then there you are - seemingly in a different era of cobbled streets running underneath railway arches.
Period tiles, wooden furnishings, barrels, comfy booths and walls covered in rock memorabilia. Like Grand Central nearby, . Between 1827 and 1947, the four acre district lay south of the area now occupied by Oxford Road Station, enclosed by the railway line and the loop in the River Medlock. It became known as 'Little Ireland' as it was inhabited by poor Irish immigrants drawn to the city as a centre of manufacturing, mining, warehouses, docklands and railway building.
Describing the inhabitants, he recounts "A horde of ragged women and children swarm about here, as filthy as the swine that thrive upon the garbage heaps and in the puddles."
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