Bridge Inn, Rochdale

Known as 'The Bridge in the Alley', this is a tucked away red brick building with five rooms and many original fittings. The lobby has a dado of inter-war light blue tiles. The inner twin doors - right with original etched panel, left with replacement panel - lead to the lobby bar with a black and white tiled floor, inter-war tiled dado and glazed screened servery which has lost its lower panels. The bar back fitting is good featuring some old mirror panels but does not look old/original e.g. the cupboards look new. Ladies' and gents' on the rear right have interwar etched 'Gents' and 'Ladies' panels in the doors, original tiled floors but modern tiled walls. In the front middle right a doorway leads to a small original parquet floor room with what looks like old/original fixed seating (but this is a Samuels Smith's pub!), a cast iron fireplace looks modern but the tiles on the floor and the wood surround aloof old; it has replacement 'Bridge Inn' etched windows.

On the front left a doorway leads to a small room with carpet on a screeded floor, what looks like old/original fixed seating (but this is a Samuels Smiths pub!), the wood surround and cast-iron fireplace is a recent addition but the brick shaped floor tiles and wooden border do look old and there are modern bell-pushes. The rear left small room also has a doorway, old/original fixed seating re-upholstered, a hatch to the side of the servery which looks more modern than old, new bell-pushes, and has lost its fireplace. On the front far right a doorway leads to a small room which has been brought into pub use with no fixed seating but original 'Bridge Inn' window, old cupboards in the corner, and no sign of a fireplace. It won a Conservation Award in the 1994 CAMRA/English Heritage Pub Design Awards.