An inn has stood on this site since 1771. The present building actually dates from 1656, and used to be "The Shambles Inn" in Chester, until it was dismantled, transported to Manchester and reassembled in its present form in 1928. Reputedly haunted by the ghost of a young girl who died in the last century, having been raped by by the chef, who later hanged himself - the rope marks are still visible on a ceiling beam!