The Eagle Inn, Salford

A nice looking old style boozer. Lots of building work still going on around it so it looks like its in the middle of a building site. Very traditional inside with 3 small rooms that look like they haven't changed in decades. A Holts pub so the 6 handpulls are their beers. It was good to be in a pub that isn't trying to appeal to the limited attention span of the younger drinker. If you like your very traditional pubs this is for you. Fizzypop drinking, shiny flashing light attracted moths need not bother.

Tucked away in a slightly shabby part of town that seems to be undergoing a fair bit of redevelopment, the Eagle Inn is a quality old-school back street Holt’s pub. A nice porch with excellent etched glasswork (and rather unusually, a juke box) has doors leading into the front bar to the left or a drinking corridor straight on. The front bar is a nice simple L-shaped space with sturdy fixed bench seating along two walls and a pleasant dark wood servery to the rear. The room’s centrepiece is a fine fireplace decorated with a spades motif, which when lit, no doubt makes the room a cosy spot on a cold winter’s day. The corridor has scuffed floorboards and access to the servery to the left, with all of the handpulls set on the counter here. Two more rooms can be reached from here, both on the right hand side of the building. The front room has a battered parquet floor, some slightly dull, tired looking walls and firm-to-the-point-of-uncomfortable banquettes supplemented by a few low stools. Another fireplace can be found here, this time with attractive tiling and an elaborately framed mirror above. A few old Schweppes adverts line the walls, but aside from these, decor is kept fairly minimal. The rear room meanwhile, has similar seating options in a marginally perkier room with an upright piano on the end wall which had various magazines stacked on top. Some excellent 80’s indie tunes played throughout my visit, not seemingly attributable to the juke box, and there are a few benches on the pavement outside the front of the pub as well as a small smoker’s patio to the rear. I had a choice of three Holt’s beers on this visit – Bitter, IPA and Two Hoots – as well as Weston’s Old Rosie cider, whilst two pulls remained out of action. A pleasant and friendly barman served up a very nice pint of the IPA which I enjoyed in one of the quiet rooms to the right. This is a nice, fairly unspoilt traditional pub that provides a very rewarding pub-going experience without the need to compromise itself. The beer range, decor and facilities are all unashamedly basic and the pub works all the better for this fact. An enjoyable place to unwind over a well kept pint or two.

The Eagle Inn is a proper old pub that is on a back street off blackfriars road. Once inside the pub had two rooms with a very nice basic bar and a more comfortable lounge,we had a drink in the bar,this pub is a Joseph Holt tied house and there were two real ales on the bar we had a drink of Holts bitter and this was a really nice drink the other beer was Holts mild. We quite liked this pub and it is nice to see it still up and running. Pub visited 12/11/1988

Traditional Joseph Holt pub,and unlike many other pubs in the area has managed to survive from being bulldozed.Called in on a Tuesday afternoon and found the locals friendly enough,but think the pub could just do with a bit of TLC.