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Middleton Pubs : The Brunswick pub in Middleton near Manchester
'The Brunswick used to be a great, tatty bikers' bar (the front room having original posters up from the 60's - it just never got decorated) - a great jukebox, a good crowd of rockers, bikers, punks, hippies and just about everything else. It was the original greasy spoon pub. Never saw a fight there or any trouble in 20 years. After a change of management, the bikers are gone, as is everyone else. The pub is totally run down and now survives as a "Manchester City" pub. The first thing you smell is the toilets. The next thing you get is a brooding air of violence just around the corner. Surly bar staff, rotten beer, food is relegated to "D'you want crisps ? " - rotten, rotten, rotten - even for Middleton.'
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Middleton Pubs : The Railway pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Across the road from the Brunswick (almost definitely classifiable as a truly rotten boozer) the Railway boasts a crowd of locals who should all be bit part actors in "Deliverance". You may not notice as the beer is so badly kept that your intestines may part company with your body at any moment. There are a few live bands on, and for the musos amongst us, a semi-regular jam night, where you can take an expensive musical instrument in to have it smashed up, nicked, or have Mad Eric say "I can play that" and then proceed to vomit down your trumpet. A night in the Railway is perhaps slightly more appealing than being embalmed. '
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Middleton Pubs : Thornberries pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Dreadful faux "upmarket" pub in Alkrington, the "posh" area of Middleton. Occasionally have live music in the form of a jazz band who have yet to understand the basics of time, rhythm or melody. This pub was formerly the Roebuck, which went through several refurbs, each one more demented than the last, in a vain hope to drag punters in through the door. Faint praise - one of the few pubs in Middleton where it's unlikely you'll get your teeth kicked in, but you may actually prefer that to happen at the end of the evening to add some excitement to the stultifying boredom. And the staff are unpleasant in the extreme - "Drink up and get out" - at closing time. Another Middleton pub to avoid.'
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Middleton Pubs : Ring O Bells pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Once a decent little pub with friendly regulars and reasonable beer tucked away in a quiet area of Midd, opposite a church, now "redecorated" in such an "Ipcress effect" style that you need a strong stomach to even look at the wallpaper. The Pub Ruining Brigade have been at this one, and it shows as the "Ringers" is virtually deserted at night, presumably the regulars are all home with eye strain. There is reportedly a ghost which haunts the cellar - the most lively thing about this pub. '
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Middleton Pubs : Dusty Miller pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Sadomasochists form an orderly queue to go in the Dusty and get their heads kicked in. Avoid, unless you're a member of the Fight Club re-enactment society....'
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Middleton Pubs : Olde Boars Head pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Frequented by.... very few people, the Boars Head is a characterful pub which has had all the character drained out of it. Unimaginative beers, typical Middleton chav punters, though of somewhat a higher order than normal, it's a pub Middleton Monkeys pass through to go to more "lively" ones. You also get thrown out on the dot of closing time by the Rottweiler bar staff. Service is slow due to the small bar, and it's just stultifyingly dull, dull, dull. '
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Middleton Pubs : The Old Roebuck Inn pub in Middleton near Manchester
'Being in the centre of Midd, this is not a pub you go in if you're a rare blood type. The chance of emerging with limbs and teeth intact are low. This is to pubs what Winston Churchill was to Woodbines. '
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Middleton Pubs : The Lancashire Fold pub in Middleton near Manchester
'....... dreadful. Hope it does fold. Moronic bar staff (didn't know what a Bloody Mary was)- the food is pre-chewed by mange-infested goats around the back, not one customer resembles anything more advanced than Cro Magnon man and to top it all, the Lanky Fold dishes up sour "Lees Lager", possibly the main ingredient for scouring powder.'
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Middleton Pubs : The Tandle Hill Tavern pub in Middleton near Manchester
'The Tandle Hill Tavern can be found at the end of a very, very, very long and dreadfully pitted dirt track, which is probably the best place for it. '
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Manchester Pubs : Matt & Phreds Jazz Club pub in Manchester
'- as a musician - Matt and Phreds is packed full of students who wouldn't know a minor scale if it jumped up and bit them. A very poor follow on from the sadly now dead (?) Band on the Wall. It's not a jazz club, it's a club full of kids pretending they know what they're talking about - loudly. Cramped stage, too. '
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Manchester Pubs : The Lion & Lamb pub in Manchester
'Horrible skanky pub with a reputation. I once walked past to see someone thrown through a plate glass window. Second time I went in - not by choice - I was immediately offered goods stolen off some poor old dear by two of the roughest lesbians I've ever seen. A pub to avoid - screaming.'
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Manchester Pubs : The Marble Arch pub in Manchester
'Good pub, indeed, but Marble beers are, er, not too hot. Yes, they are real ales, but lack body and substance. Nonetheless, one of the better pubs in Manchester - this is how it should be done.'
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Rochdale Pubs : Cask & Feather pub in Rochdale
'Used to be a bikers' pub - The Fusilier - now pretty characterless. Good range of single malts, though. No idea what it's like at night....'
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