PUBS may come and pubs may go in Warrington town centre. Often they simply change name.
But the Hop Pole, in Horsemarket Street stands as a reminder of what old-time Warrington looked like – and still has its original name.
On the one side it has the ultra modern bus interchange.
On the other, the modern Hatter’s Row shopping centre, which stands on the site of a row of old shops which used to be the Hop Pole’s neighbours until they were demolished about 30 years ago.
The pub was once the haunt of market traders, in the days when Warrington Market plied its trade a short distance behind the Hop Pole.
Today the pub is looking pretty good – better maintained than it was 40 years ago.
It stands as something of a landmark in one of the oldest town centre streets but which now has little of its original townscape remaining.
Pub is a reminder of the past
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Gary Skentelbery
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Go through the side door into the first room on the right and you’ll find a bench seat with a perfect imprint of my butt – it took ten years, seven nights a week to create it.
I preferred the long velvet curtains, the smoke-yellowed decor and the cigarette stained tables though.
The Hop Pole… establised in 1762 and in the early 1900’s was known as Coops Concert Rooms. It was one of the fun ‘old photos of Warrington picture quizzes’ on the forum a few months back curtosy of forum member Algy. The great old photo has now been removed but perhaps Algy could put it back on for a while now the pub features in a news story 😉