Results tagged “Coldharbour”

A VICTORIAN terrace building which survived the blitz could face demolition at the end of the month – and the council claims it can do nothing about it.

The former dock workers’ coffee house at 615 Manchester Road should become part of Coldharbour’s conservation zone on October 10 after repeated bids to replace it with flats. But owner John Farah has blindsided the council by announcing plans to knock it down a couple of weeks beforehand.

TRADITIONAL drinkers don’t usually have much time for gastropubs.

In fact, they usually see them as some sort of dining equivalent of 70s cult film Logan’s Run – sniffy culinary “utopias� with no character, cold shiny surfaces and the faint whiff of social injustice.

The Gun doesn’t have that problem.

The Grade II-listed Coldharbour watering hole neatly straddles the gulf between the two warring camps of the modern pub world.