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From the Spanking Roger to the Fiddlers Green: How some of Greater Manchesters 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) Sign up for our Whats On newsletter - for all the latest whether youre staying in or heading out and aboutInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you sub...

- 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 th...