Our Gracie's, Rochdale

This was only a spur of the moment visit, but it turned out to be a real highlight of a day in Rochdale - five quality ales, pork pies, very friendly chatty staff and clientele, 60s music videos on a screen above the bar. You could easily stay here all afternoon. A small bare brick room traditionally decorated with comfortable banquette seating, vinyl records, pump clips and Gracie Fields posters. Don’t miss this one!

Single square room micro almost beside Wetherspoons and Hogarths, five pulls with one on cider duty. It has bench seating round the edges, old school forms and stools elsewhere. The name may give you a clue as to what the theme is here. The walls are exposed brick with a big photograph of Gracie Fields to one side, sheet music covers of her songs to the other and a wall of naked LP’s and music video playing screen above the counter. Gracie postcards and pump clips line up on another bit of wall. A decent micro with Camra discounts.

Under new ownership and a complete change of focus. Reopened by the guys who have Hoochi Koochi across the road. This is now a micropub with 4 cask ales on offer. The ales were all local from Phoenix, Wakey Wakey, Eagles Crag and Whitworth Valley. The Wakey Wakey was in good nick. I suspect this will become a regular haunt of ours.

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