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Busy pub on Charles Street by the side of the Medlock SJ8497 : River Medlock

According to a now defunct website - In the late 1800s, this part of Manchester was known as "Little Ireland", due in the main to the large numbers of Irish immigrant workers living there. However, the area was also home to extreme poverty and terrible hardship and quickly came to be synonymous with all the evils and squalor of unregulated industrialisation for Manchester had by then became notorious for. It was in this charnel house of blood, sweat tears and tragedy that the pub we today know as the Lass O' Gowrie was born. Legend has it that the original landlord of the pub was not an Irishman, but a proud, homesick Scotsman who named the pub in honour of his favourite poem - 'the Lass O'Gowrie' written by the celebrated Scottish poet Lady Carolina Nairne SJ8497 : Lass o' Gowrie by Carolina Nairne.

On the side of the pub a plaque states SJ8497 : Manchester's Oldest Pissotiere Here was the site of Manchester's oldest Pissotier, last used A.D.1896