The Red Lion, Derrington

Alee

Alee

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wood_1 said:
Hi All,

I'm sure people won't me updating the facts on here about The Red Lion pub...
But you will be pleased to know it is staying open for the foreseeable future!
With a new menu on the way and cheaper beer prices! Along with a tea room and a shop soon to be opening within the pub!!
Also... Bonfire & Fireworks night Friday 7th November 2014... Nothing like easy advertising ;)
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hi , this is great news. I'll be looking forward to the opening of the shop especially! Will you be looking for any staff?
 
Lady Patch

Lady Patch

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This is great news, called in there on Saturday and saw the signs about the shop and tea room. Great idea that will hopefully draw in lots of people. The beer is already very cheap, probably the cheapest I have found in Stafford; for John Smiths anyway, £2.55 a pint. absolute bargain!!

Best of luck with the new venture :)
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I can't speak for locals as I'm not one, and don't know the competiton, but can I say for someone travelling cost is not as important as quality. When we come past its by bike, and you have the Hungry Horse at one end of the tracks and the pubs of Gnosall at the other. On the way home you want us to stop there rather than the HH, and similar food at whatever price isn't it.

As I've said many time on this forum I don't eat out enough to keep a business afloat, you'd be lucky to see me once a month, but in my eyes a good menu will get you good customers. Its not my money at stake though!
 
Alee

Alee

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in regards to the bonfire night at red lion , is it still free entry or are you charging now? theres 2 flyers in derrington bus stop , one says its free the other says you have to pay. which one is it?
also if you are now charging for entry , is it free entry for children under a certain age?
 
Noah

Noah

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I hear that the Red Lion is closing at the end of the month. Demolition and the erection of houses seem to be its fate.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Shame, waste of what should be a good pub. Plus I'd never move to a village that didn't have its own boozer.
 
0liverC

0liverC

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I've just sat and read through this thread having been a frequent customer back when my dad lived local. It's such a shame to lose a pub with such a diverse range of clientele.

One minute we're told Damien is there for 5 years and then suddenly he's not and the it's going to be flattened. How can things change from one extreme to another so much?

Also, does anyone know if The Hand & Cleaver was finally granted permission to be converted to houses? Another tragic loss of a country pub.
 
Noah

Noah

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Unfortunately most of the villagers preferred cheap beer in the village club, which was the main cause of the pub's problems. People coming from outside were not enough to keep it going. People passing by on the road or on the trail now have nowhere to get refreshment as they and villagers who are not club members can't use the club.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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When pubs like the Red Lion at Bradley and the Hand and Cleaver at Ranton - which both did food to a higher order than others can't stay in business then it is no surprise that a pub co pub with little identity or any ability to react to customer habits ceases to exist

To be fair a pub or restaurant has to charge 20% more for food than a supermarket because it's forced to add VAT

That's your margin gone in an instant

But pubs outside large cities were crippling slow to get the coffee phenomenon so fell by the wayside
 
Laurie61

Laurie61

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I read somewhere that a developer wanted to build 10 houses on the plot, I guess this is now it's fate. :(
 
Kickstart

Kickstart

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Laurie61 said:
I read somewhere that a developer wanted to build 10 houses on the plot, I guess this is now it's fate. :(
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A few developers have been around. Some have wanted to put more than 10 on the site!

There are issues to developing the site for housing (not prepared to put them on an open forum).

All the best

Keith
 
Damien

Damien

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Hi all ....

Just an update for you, I was offered a 5 year tenancy on the pub but the powers at enterprise wouldn't take it off the market until the purchaser dropped out to which he did... so a nice steady £5600 a week trade ...until they came and did the same sold STC please close on such and such a date ....This went on 5 times to the point the business dropped off to £600 a week and I couldn't afford to keep it going on that...

I'm gutted that pub became a major part of my life only to find its going under the hammer 26th Feb for the 3rd time.

The pub can be developed on but there are too many land registry restrictions that we cannot go into (legal reasons) that put developers off but the heads at be don't care.

They destroyed a perfectly stable business within months. :(
 
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