160 Katherine Street, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 7AE.
Built and opened in 1967 as part of the redevelopment of the town centre and the opening of the brand new shopping precinct, the Beau has survived more or less intact.
A single storey bar with two storey living quarters, flat roofed and clad in broad brick columns, interspersed by rendered recesses, pierced by windows, which have happily not been blessed with new uPVC frames.
Always a busy boozer, approximate to the bus station, with a loyal but increasingly ageing clientele, the late Summer sun had drawn several customers into the garden/car park area, where we chatted amiably about Ashton’s rich pub past.
There were no signs of any legionnaires, diseased or otherwise.
Manchester's Estate Pubs 
happy times back in the 60s and 70s sad times now thinking of all the lost friends
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