The long forgotten images from 1971 of a night out at Manchester's lost landmark pub
Images unseen for 50 years capture a night out at the landmark Manchester pub which was demolished last week.
But it was the verse written by Greater Manchester poet Lemn Sissay on its gable wall that fixed it in the minds of many. Sissay moved to Manchester from Wigan when he was 18 and often drank and played pool in the pub. Now, the M.E.N can reveal brilliant, time capsule images from inside the lost pub, captured by former Manchester Polytechnic student Michael Kay back in 1971.
"I was aware there was a limited number of shots I could take because it was expensive to get it processed. "You have a bit of nerves doing something like this because you don't quite know what's going to happen, especially somewhere where people are drinking. You don't quite know if somebody is going to have had a bit too much.Photographs of the Birch Villa pub's characters taken during one evening in 1971
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