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From the Spanking Roger to the Fiddler s Green: How some of Greater Manchester s finest - and liveliest - local pubs got their names
Every pub has a story to tell about how they got their name
Empty pint glasses sit on the top of beer pumps of the Peveril Of The Peak pub (Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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It was a song said to have been sung in the streets of Manchester in the late eighteenth century and commemorated one of the town’s most glorified villian and all round cad.
Roger Aytoun, better known as Spanking Roger, scandalised eighteenth century society when he married Barbara Minshull, widow of Thomas, a noted apothecary.
The pair, it is rumoured met while Roger was taking part in a race on Kersal Moor.Barbara, it is said, attracted to his physique and Rogre, finding that she was the possessor of great wealth lost no time in getting her approval for marriage.