Page 11 - Didsbury Pubs

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Each pub and bar has an original painting by Peter, with
more peppered through the book, and there is a wealth of
contemporary and period photographs along with my stories.
It is a book which will take you from the east of the
township to the west, taking in four centuries of Didsbury’s
history and a bit of Withington’s, and along the way features
the pub associated with a dog called Brigadier, more than a few
pubs which changed their names, and the one linked to Bob
Dylan.
But we shall finish where we began with that burning of the
effigy of Tom Paine.
The crowd who assembled to see the event may have been
driven by a fear of Paine’s ideas or out of sheer curiosity, but
they weren’t alone, because in all that orgy of burning,
Broomsgrove in Worcestershire was, “the only town in England
in which an effigy of Tom Paine was not burned”, leaving the
Manchester Guardian to add that there in Broomsgrove,
“Democracy predominates.”*

*Broomsgrove, Manchester Guardian, January 20th, 1793
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