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Originally Posted by Marikins
My grandad use to go in Load of Mischief, well over 100 years ago, when he was a young man ,and I remember him telling me that there was a painting of a man with a woman on his back piggy back style, and that was why it was called a Load of Mischief.
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Not only did the sign have a depiction of a man carrying a woman on his back, but it also had a monkey to the side of him...like that had been on his back too.
Certainly that is my memory of it and I did a search and true enough, the monkey was there.
I never saw another pub by that name but a search shows the there were other pubs by a similar name...The Man with a Load of Mischief.
Maybe that was what the Load of Mischief was originally, but the locals (over the years) shortened it so the brewery(Thwaites) called it that.
When I got married in 1966, this was our local.
It was a thriving pub and a place that was good to be for hearing about the daily doings of Clayton.
I was sad when it closed to make way for the motorway.