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I agree, it's a great looking pub and has so much potential......it just needs a good management company, lick of paint, beer is always useful and a choice of it, and a public ban of any shitheads hanging around outside of it - oh yeah and work vans parked on the double yellows so it makes it impossible to pull onto the crescent withount kissing a car in the opposite direction.Sir Buckingham of Doxey said:Bloody shocking this. It's a lovely looking pub. The Tuns is a doss hole and the Universal is stuck in some '80s time warp. It's sad that everywhere I go, pubs are closing. The Bear and Pheasant can't get a licensee, The Eagle has long gone, The Tavern is up and down like a whore's knickers, and I reckon it won't be long before one of the best pubs in Stafford, The Greyhound, will close, I'm sure of it.
Karma point for you moley... nearly choked laughing!!!Moley said:I agree, it's a great looking pub and has so much potential......it just needs a good management company, lick of paint, beer is always useful and a choice of it, and a public ban of any shitheads hanging around outside of it - oh yeah and work vans parked on the double yellows so it makes it impossible to pull onto the crescent withount kissing a car in the opposite direction.Sir Buckingham of Doxey said:Bloody shocking this. It's a lovely looking pub. The Tuns is a doss hole and the Universal is stuck in some '80s time warp. It's sad that everywhere I go, pubs are closing. The Bear and Pheasant can't get a licensee, The Eagle has long gone, The Tavern is up and down like a whore's knickers, and I reckon it won't be long before one of the best pubs in Stafford, The Greyhound, will close, I'm sure of it.
Ahhhhh I feel better I've got that off my chest.
Yip, the same five people in the bar, day and nightjimbob23 said:The problem with the Arms seems to be that they just can't get enough people in there (that and the fact they keep getting people who couldn't organise a piss up in an, erm, pub to run it).
They need to start doing decent food and knock down the fence round the back and turn the 'garden' into a car park, or at the very least a couple of spaces and a decent beer garden. Could make a couple of spaces out the front, too. That'd bring in a few non-Doxeyites to bump up the customer numbers and make it look a bit more welcoming.
Even when it was open, you'd walk past and there'd be absolutely nobody in the lounge at the front and five people in the bar, or more accurately at the bar.
I'd heard that when the lease is up on the pub, about 5 years time or something, its going to be knocked down for more flats!Sir Buckingham of Doxey said:.....and I reckon it won't be long before one of the best pubs in Stafford, The Greyhound, will close, I'm sure of it.
The lease has been up in that pub for ages. If you look back at a March 2007 thread re. the Arms then there is a little more infosimon said:I'd heard that when the lease is up on the pub, about 5 years time or something, its going to be knocked down for more flats!Sir Buckingham of Doxey said:.....and I reckon it won't be long before one of the best pubs in Stafford, The Greyhound, will close, I'm sure of it.
I've seen that bad boy a few times - looks like they might serve up a decent ruby in there. It happens with loads of pubs these days. There were seemingly hundreds in London that had been turned into Indians/Thais etc.Attaboy! said:A pub called The Staffordsire Knot at Hanford (A34 just past Trentham) is now an Indian restaurant ..... wierd.
I went in there with my mother for Sunday lunch once, about 1pm.Attaboy! said:I'm told that what was The Crispin on The Stone Road is shut and will be opening as a Chinese Restaurant.
Yes, shocking.Bloody shocking this. It's a lovely looking pub. The Tuns is a doss hole and the Universal is stuck in some '80s time warp. It's sad that everywhere I go, pubs are closing. The Bear and Pheasant can't get a licensee, The Eagle has long gone, The Tavern is up and down like a whore's knickers, and I reckon it won't be long before one of the best pubs in Stafford, The Greyhound, will close, I'm sure of it.
I saw Mrs Candlin walking along Gaolgate Street yesterday morning, the widow of Arthur Candlin junior who had the New Inn from 1972 to '76, the Kings Head from 1985 to '91, the Doxey Arms from 1991 to '92 and who died in 2010.Yes, shocking.
I remember the Doxey Arms as a good pub when Arthur Candlin Junior kept it in the early 1990s.