The Tim Bobbin

This Wetherspoon pub is named after Urmston's much-acclaimed 18th-century dialect poet, John Collier (alias Tim Bobbin).

Born in 1708, the son of a local curate and schoolteacher, Collier began his working life as a weaver, later becoming a teacher and a writer. In most of his books, Tim Bobbin was the main character, and Collier used Bobbin as a pseudonym throughout his career.