The Union Arms, Manchester

Good community pub, with plenty of customers coming in to eat promptly after opening at noon. Being adjacent to a sloping road, you find a slightly split-level arrangement of seating / dining areas on both sides of the central servery. Thwaites Gold and Pretoria from Wigan Brewhouse (just £2.50 but in excellent shape) were available from the various handpumps (and I imagine a wider choice in normal times).

A nice multi-roomed pub. There are at least 5 rooms. To the left as you enter is one room, the room to your right is split into 2. There are 2 rear rooms and a beer yard beyond. There were a total of six handpumps with 3 each in the two front rooms. A couple of interesting beers were on today (Two Towns Chief and something Valley Tods Blonde). The beer yard had at least 12 handpumps so I assume they had a beer festival over the August bank holiday. By far your best bet for real ale in Tyldesley.