“Smut Inn” Public House Oldham

Named after the landlord’s dog, (Smut - original meaning of black sooty mark), and a rebuilding of an earlier inn, this was the first of three public houses built for Boddington’s Brewery in the 1880s featuring literary quotations.

At first floor the corner has a canted oriel of terra cotta with mullions and transom, and a band on the corbel with the words: "STRIVE MIGHTILY BUT EAT AND DRINK AS FRIENDS," a quotation taken from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Over the main entrance on Manchester Road there is the name SMUT and a HB Monogram in terra cotta. This pub also has a terra cotta distance marker set into the brickwork recoding the distances to Manchester and Oldham Town Halls.

Closed after May 2009 and empty