Mudgie
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Because a pub gone from the Shropshire End of Haughton would still leave one at the Bell End ?Seems like a jolly good idea.
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Because a pub gone from the Shropshire End of Haughton would still leave one at the Bell End ?Seems like a jolly good idea.
No the Bellends are in the Butler's at the north end of Gaolgate StreetBecause a pub gone from the Shropshire End of Haughton would still leave one at the Bell End ?
Not really because Haughton is already overpopulated and if those residing there used their local pubs once a month or more the pubs wouldn't be struggling.Seems like a jolly good idea.
I was thinking from the point of view of the pub owners.Not really because Haughton is already overpopulated and if those residing there used their local pubs once a month or more the pubs wouldn't be struggling.
But the right pub owner could have made a success of the Shropshire Inn.I was thinking from the point of view of the pub owners.
Anyway if the good folk of Haughton really needed two pubs, they would have used them and this one wouldn't have had very little trade.
Use it or lose it.
But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.But the right pub owner could have made a success of the Shropshire Inn.
Just as Alan Turner did for decades at the Bell.
Well said.But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.
As I said before, if the locals had cared that much about having a local, they'd have used it. They didn't so the owner has decided to secure their own future.
Fair play.
But it's not just their house, it's a PUBLIC house for he public's use.But this pub owner clearly now wants to retire and turn a pub that is losing them money into a home for themselves and an income by renting the other bungalow.
As I said before, if the locals had cared that much about having a local, they'd have used it. They didn't so the owner has decided to secure their own future.
Fair play.
Yes, yes and yesThe Star at Cop Mere
Anyone visited this year?
Any good for a beer?
Anyone here?
There used to be enough trade for the two pubs when I was growing up in Haughton and the village is probably five times the size it was then.Living very close to Haughton I know The Bell is well used and even more so since they had new landlords. There isn't trade for 2 pubs in small villages, whether you want there to be or not.
Alnwick ( where I stayed last month ) - population 8430 - twenty pubs.Living very close to Haughton I know The Bell is well used and even more so since they had new landlords. There isn't trade for 2 pubs in small villages, whether you want there to be or not.
But it's one of a small minority of pubs that has a bus service into the evening.People used to drive out to country pubs and drive home drunk though too...
Yes, and an AA rosette suggests that it's fine dining rather than the microwaved ready meals we might expect in a high street barn.I always got the impression that this particular pub was trying to aim too much at people eating, but thats not what you necessarily want from your village local.
But, but, but.But it's not just their house, it's a PUBLIC house for he public's use.
That's why an indication that a genuine attempt to sell it as a pub has been made should be provided with the application for planning permission for change of use or demolition.
There's many a failing badly run pub that's thrived under new keen owners who know what they're doing. And many a pub that's been run down intentionally - stop doing meals, reduce hours, etc., an ever decreasing circle.