A Pub Without A Sign The Sedge Lynn Chorlton Manchester

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Despite their history many pubs lack a pub sign, and a text-book example of this is Chorlton’s Sedge Lynn in South Manchester. It was actually built specially not to be a pub. No, you didn’t misread that – the Sedge Lynn was intended to be a non-pub. The Sedge Lynn was a purpose built billiards hall. The Temperance Movement opponents of demon drink showed that you didn’t need the booze to play billiards, or other sports. The Sedge Lynn name was actually that of a house next door to the pub, though the house was replaced by a cinema, itself now closed. The Wetherspoons owned pub reclaimed the territory for drinkers and irony of ironies it does not have billiards or pool tables within. Sadly, it also lacks signage, leaving me to wonder what it might show if it had a sign. Depicting billiards might confuse people expecting to get a game on the baize tables inside. Depicting an absence of beer might also send out the wrong message, so the sign ought to depict the buildings clever aerodrome arch style architecture. Arthur Chappell