The Old Monkey  On the corner of
Princess Street and Portland Street stands the Old
Monkey described by the Manchester Bar Review site as
follows: "A Joseph Holts owned traditional working
class pub, the old monkey is deceptively large inside,
whether you drink downstairs or upstairs the atmosphere
is the same, this is a traditional pub with friendly
staff and the Manchester brewed Holt’s beers."
 The building looks
new but as you can see from my sketch map below,
based on a 1888 map, you can see that there was a
Public House at that location 200 years ago.
 There was a lot
of damage in this area during the WWII Blitz but
as you can see in the aerial photograph below
the building survived into the 1950s.
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