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The Smut Inn was situated at 248 Manchester Road. This pub was built in 1884 and 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: "Strove Mightily But Eat & 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.

Source: Carl Reeves

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