Privately owned, and is currently run by experienced licensee Susan Haselden. Note, the Bridge Inn only opens for Manchester City home games, but here there are also additional evening opening for darts match nights. Although no cask beer is sold, a warm, welcoming atmosphere awaits those to this pleasant canal-side setting. Run-down interior at one time, with keg-only Tetley and Boddington beers on offer. The next-door mammoth sports complex that was constructed in 2015 should well have provided a lifeline for this hardy survivor, but sadly, no. History: Former Whitbread house.