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Picture source: Neal Buckley

The Rising Sun was situated on Cheetham Street. This Sam Smiths pub closed on 16th October 1966.

Source: Ted Stott

During WWII my Grandmother and Grandfather Leonard and Doris Holroyd ran this pub with my Father Alan Holroyd. He was serving behind the bar a far too young an age but there was a war on. My father used to swing on a old rope slung on a beam in the attic until he found out that the rope was used by a former landlord to hang his self. My father is still going an tells the story today 2023. That which he swung on was the remains of the rope after they cut the landlord down. circa 1938/9. My Grandmother always left two bottles of beer with the caps losened in the yard at night for either the police on duty all night or the ARP wardens during the war.

Stephen Holdroyd (February 2023)

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