There are a few wireless hotspots in Bury but hardly anyone seems to use them.
The best one is the Lounge bar in Hatter street (a few doors up from my Office) they have completely unencumbered and free Internet access.
A few of the Greeneking pubs have either MyCloud or Purple Patch. The MyCloud ones are next to useless to me because I can't get out on ssh and VPN's won't work over them (I refuse to use a untrusted network any other way) and the Purple Patch ones annoy me because despite being a BT OpenZone they don't accept the OpenZone credits I get from my ISP. Oh and both of them are a pain to sign up to using anything other than I.E.
There is another free hotspot opening in Northgate street next week as Number 3 (a bar/coffee shop) are putting one in.
There used to be a internet cafe down St John's street, but it closed down after about 6 months. There is also a internet kiosk thingy in the street just off the buttermarket near Natwest Bank, I have never used it but I think it is a tourist information walled garden thing.
Not forgetting of course the famous Internet Enabled Park bench in the Abby gardens. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/10/vandals_and_phreakers_plague_msn/
Although it's been offline for some time now as I recall and it's only dialup anyway.