Trader’s Tiki Bar

The ninth location on the trail is the Trader’s Tiki Bar at 7 Goose Green. Goose Green was on the edge of Hale Moss and one of the main routes out of town to the moss lands where locals would take their geese. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century the area was well populated and some of the older cottages still survive. The humpback bridge marks the line of the old railway track. The old Bowdon railway station site is on the right between Goose Green and Lloyd Street, and is now covered by an underground car park. The railway station included a station hotel which faced on to Railway Street. The trail now returns to Stamford New Road going past the back of the Tavern on the Green, to get to Grafton Street. The Art Deco building on the corner of Grafton Street and Stamford New Road was built for Montague Burton tailors in 1936, and the Graftons shopping centre across the road replaced the Stamford Hotel which had itself replaced the Orange Tree Hotel which had been demolished to make way for the new road and its licence transferred to Old Market Place. The Faulkners Arms which had also been demolished was rebuilt on Stamford New Road is now called the Tavern on the Green.