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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 12:03:15 GMT
My eldest worked there for a couple of years. He does not speak highly of it. I read a post on FB the other day claimimg that one of the reasons Wetherspoons are able to sell beer cheap (other than paying their staff SHITE wages) was that they buy up all the beer from the brewers that's about to go out of date. Nope. Just an urban myth. The reason is the vast quantities in which they buy all of their products and a slight subsidisation from the huge mark up on their food. Out of date beer is nonsense peddled by local pub purists to try and put people off 'spoons. I don't know why they bother - the muppet who owns the company is enough to put me off! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 12:23:30 GMT
Walked past the Swan for the first time in weeks the other day and saw the 'For Aution' sign for the first time. Looking terminal. Very sad. On a more positive note, I walked past the Pilot on Monday and it looks very much like its old self (if a bit cleaner and tidier!), so it looks like the reopening is going OK. I would have popped in for a very welcome pint, but it's closed on Mondays! When did pubs start closing one day a week?! from 1974 to 2005,the orchard spot was never open on a Tuesday. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2019 12:26:49 GMT
Nope. Just an urban myth. The reason is the vast quantities in which they buy all of their products and a slight subsidisation from the huge mark up on their food. Out of date beer is nonsense peddled by local pub purists to try and put people off 'spoons. I don't know why they bother - the muppet who owns the company is enough to put me off! when I worked at a local pub, the landlord was a tight old sod, but always gave you a couple of free pints during and at the end of the night. Weatherspoons staff are charged half the retail price!! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 7:06:23 GMT
Reversing the trend, the Ringlestone has reopened.
Never expected to be drinking in this very historic pub ever again, happy days
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 8:00:19 GMT
I met the new landlord of the Stag the other day and he has some exciting plans for the place now that Rocking Robin have taken over which can only be good news.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 17:25:13 GMT
Noticed on my way to the game that the sign on the Swan now reads 'sold'.
So, another brewery, a free-house, or flats? Wouldn't have thought it was worth turning into flat or a house - hardly an upmarket area.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 17:26:22 GMT
And what happens to the tenant/manager when a pub is sold?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 18:21:04 GMT
Noticed on my way to the game that the sign on the Swan now reads 'sold'. So, another brewery, a free-house, or flats? Wouldn't have thought it was worth turning into flat or a house - hardly an upmarket area. Turn it into a Pink Floyd tribute bar after all they already have the wall opposite. "Mother did it need to be so high?" |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 22:37:16 GMT
Noticed on my way to the game that the sign on the Swan now reads 'sold'. So, another brewery, a free-house, or flats? Wouldn't have thought it was worth turning into flat or a house - hardly an upmarket area. Turn it into a Pink Floyd tribute bar after all they already have the wall opposite. "Mother did it need to be so high?" The first bedsit I was offered, post marriage #1, was opposite that wall. It would have been the first thing I saw each morning as I opened the curtains. I turned it down. |
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Post by porkystone on Aug 6, 2020 11:02:42 GMT
By co incidence, walked past the old Dog & Gun yesterday ( a different route in to town for me ). No obvious redevelopment, mothballed & a bit derelict. So that's the purchase price tied up for over a year without any income / return - maybe should have stayed as a pub ? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 16:07:28 GMT
With no or hardly any customers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 23:30:55 GMT
Walked up Mote Rd/Ave the other day and noticed that the Cricketers is still undeveloped. It's been shut so long, I can't actually remember when it was still open. That's a pretty good spot for flats - close to Town Centre and Mote Park, I wonder why it's not been developed.
Never drank in there, but it was a proper town pub/hotel, with quite a history to it. Sad to see it just sitting there, gradually decaying...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 23:54:36 GMT
Walked up Mote Rd/Ave the other day and noticed that the Cricketers is still undeveloped. It's been shut so long, I can't actually remember when it was still open. That's a pretty good spot for flats - close to Town Centre and Mote Park, I wonder why it's not been developed. Never drank in there, but it was a proper town pub/hotel, with quite a history to it. Sad to see it just sitting there, gradually decaying... You would have to remove the squatters first the last I heard there was upwards of 20 living in there but that was a couple of years back. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 9:44:30 GMT
Has anybody been to Nellie Gerkins in town yet?if yes,what's it like?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 10:05:41 GMT
No.
A bit to sour for me.
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