Manchester Pub Signs The Old Nags Head
by A pub sign that changed due to pressure from political correctness campaigners.
THE OLD NAG’S HEAD *
19 Jackson’s Row Manchester, Lancashire M2 5WD
The city’s most controversial inn sign, with the horse’s head replacing the original nagging lady portrait due to political correctness campaign protests.
The original sign would have got five stars – a clever witty caricature of a witch-like bitter old crone, with a hint of seaside postcard satire. The horse’s head replacement is totally lacking in merely allows the bar to retain its established name with a new, and rather puritanical face, indicating a willingness to plod on without atmosphere or humour. There are plenty of Horse themed inn-signs on bars in Manchester, and to the unknowing observer, this is merely another of its kind.
What is sad is how quietly the fight was raged with relatively few complaints leading to overnight capitulation and little outcry from punters or local folk trying to fight for the original sign’s preservation. The protesters should have been told to stuff it.
The pub remains popular, mostly for having four pool tables instead of just one or two. It claims to be one of the city’s oldest traditional bars despite casting its traditional inn sign aside with very little effort to hold on to it.
Arthur Chappell
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