The Queens Hotel on Rochdale in 1959 amongst the backdrop of destruction and again 2011 with the flat that were built soon after the demolition.
The Queens Hotel still stands on Rochdale Rd in Harpurhey, although its business is purely as an hotel rather than its historic use as a public house under the hospices of Peter Walker & Sons Ltd – Warrington & Burton-upon-Trent.
The Queens Hotel is now called the Sandown Hotel and is a rare survivor on this stretch of Rochdale Road as the photographs show.
More often than not, public houses would often fall last in demolitions, but they would most certainly fall. Not in this case thankfully and Harpurhey still retains this rich piece of architectural and social history.
Renamed the Harpers Hotel in this photograph from 2006.
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