Fletcher Moss, Manchester

This is a proper old school pub, perhaps doesn't look much from the outside but has a very grand interior with plenty of dark wood, bare boards with some carpeted sections. There is an old looking terracotta tiled section to the entrance corridor. There is a large central island bar with two sets of seven hand pulls at each end (I think duplicated). My Hydes Ruby Mild set me back £1.85 for a half - very reasonable. Mainly a few older chaps in at the time of my visit around 12:30 on a Friday afternoon in August. Toilets pleasant enough. Hydes beers may not be mega exciting but this is a nice old school gaff and I would be very happy to give it another try.

The long U-shaped bar in Fletcher Moss supports 14 handpumps, seven at the front and seven at the rear. The full Hydes cask range is available. A poster in the toilet lists the bi-monthly Ralf & Alf range for 2022, so starting from January and February - Board Walk and then Made in Paradise, The HAC Best, Fruity Pig, Sankey’s Smoke and Pip Squeak. Being September, Sankey’s Smoke was available. Ralf & Alf Hog Reeve was also on so maybe this is a regular. Standard and premium keg is also available. Tradition seating areas with banquettes are found to the left and right of the entrance. There are a couple of tables to the right of the front bar and a beer shelf runs down the left wall to a large wooden floored open plan conservatory extension at the rear. This area has some high tables in the centre and standard tables and chairs around the curved exterior walls. Televisions are dotted about for airing Sky Sports. Out the back is a large beer garden with seating under a jumbrella on the patio and on an AstroTurf area beyond. I found the service to be polite and this was by far the busiest pub I visited during a crawl of Didsbury. I liked it in here and would have no problem returning.

GBG 2022 entry and the pick of the Didsbury Pubs. Just off the main road but well worth the short deviation. Quite a sprawling pub, with a fine covered beer garden too. Hydes Lowry in excellent condition.

A pub well worth visiting. Still lots of different areas to drink but this is a well kept traditional pub. A very shiny varnished floor greets you from whichever entrance you choose. Real ale available. Lovely pub.

Quite like the pub, particularly the original section to the front which I guess comprised the old Albert, but can't exactly remember. Decent range of Hydes offerings & occasional guest, but my last couple of pints of Jekyll's have not been in top condition; do they pull them all through properly at lunchtime?