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The City
Road Inn
 The City Road Inn
curves around the corner of Albion Street and
Whitworth Street West. It is located across the
road from the site of the former Hacienda club and the
"trendy" bars under the railway viaduct beside the
Deansgate Locks. Just how long it has occupied
that site isn't clear. It isn't on the 1849 map
of the area but then neither is Whitworth Street
West. I have added a wide red line to indicate
the approximate position that Whitworth Street West
would take when it was built. You will see a pub
called The Hawthorn Tavern on the corner of Albion
Street and Smith Street. That is the site of the
City Road Inn but it seems likely that it was
demolished to make way for the present building rather
than being transformed into it.
 By the 1880s
Whitworth Street West is showing up on maps and
there is a Public House curving around the corner
with Albion Street, although it isn't named.
 The 1879
Slaters Directory for Manchester and Salford
does list the City Road Inn and the landlord
was Frederick Sumner. So it would appear
that it has stood on this corner for at least
132 years
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