LAST week's query about the Dog Inn has certainly been answered! I have been almost snowed under with letters and calls from local history buffs, and even one anonymous note.

A reader even sent me a painting of the Inn that he'd done, and another brought an old map into the office. The Dog, you'll recall, was in Gutter Ends, which turns out to have been off Fleet Street (now The Rock). It led round to Crompton Street

Gutter Ends is shown on the 1845 map on sale in the Reference Library. It's that little snicket between the two bank buildings - Natwest and RBS - just along from Mothercare.

Both of these bank sites were once occupied by pubs, I'm told. They were the Woodman's Inn and the White Horse Inn respectively. I never knew there were so many pubs in such a small area!

It seems that The Dog was a haunt of lively characters: its customers often appeared before the magistrates, and the pub finally lost its licence in 1908 when Mr William Pearson was the landlord.

The Dog Inn was pulled down in 1926 and the nearby Post Office bought the site (Dog Yard).

Thanks a bunch to Geoff Butterworth, Harold Chadwick, Cyril Cordwell, Mrs Diggle, Mr J. Hanaughan, Nigel Hall, Mr E. Hoskor and Bury police station.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.