Oddfellows Arms, Eccles, Salford

Oddfellows Arms is a large open plan high street boozer that had a handful of all day pissheads in during a recent Wednesday afternoon visit. The bar counter runs along the rear wall, the service was polite, but the choice of standard keg wasn’t very interesting. In the left front is a raised seating area that becomes a stage for the DJ booth at the weekend. The background music off the jukebox was loud enough during my visit, heaven knows what it’s like on a Friday and Saturday night. There are areas of seating dotted about, including banquettes across the front windows, but most of the pub is devoid of furniture meaning that it feels very bare. Along the right wall are a pool table and dartboard, the former being played by some homeless people. Televisions are located throughout, these were all off and I didn’t spot any sports advertisements. I’m hoping that I never find myself in Eccles again, but if I do I’ll be walking past Oddies.

After having to saying excuse me to the grey track suit gang smoking at the door so we could get in there was no one in a big empty space young girl on her phone carried on and on talking heard her say call us back got to go and f----g serve we said its ok and turned round and left

The Oddfellows Arms looks like a 60s built pub that is in Eccles pedestrian precinct with shops either side of it. Once inside the pub had a smart lounge where we had a drink,i am not sure if there were any other rooms,when we visited this pub it was a Boddingtons tied house and there were two real ales on the bar we had a drink of Boddingtons bitter and this was a very nice drink the other beer was Boddingtons mild. We thought this was a decent pub to start our Eccles crawl in. Pub visited 21/2/1987