The backstreet city centre pub with a grisly past that’s set to reopen
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA historic backstreet pub building in the city centre with a dark past is set to reopen under a new name and ownership. For almost 35 years, the Mother Mac's pub, on Back Piccadilly in the Northern Quarter, became a Manchester institution known for being a ‘proper pub that makes no excuses’ due to its traditional and no-frills set-up.
But having shuttered towards the end of 2022, the pub building - which has served as a public house since as far back as the 1870s - has remained vacant and up for sale.
But, that is, until now. READ MORE: 'I took my kids to my old Manchester nightclub for a great value Sunday roast' A alcohol licence application has been filed with Manchester Council that would see the pub taken over by new management and renamed the Rat & Pigeon.
If approved, the three-floor pub would be open from 10am until midnight or 1am throughout the week, and until 3am on Thursday to Saturday.
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