Plough at Amerton

John Marwood

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I notice building work is underway at The Plough,.is it reopening or has bedsit land reached the countryside?
 

ODB_69

Chris
I dont think it will ever open again as a pub tbh, needs a lot of work doing to it and the amount of problems they had there last few years beforer they closed it I think people would struggle to get it licenced

I lived just down the road from it and the last 2 crashes on that road were due to people coming out of there drunk after lock ins (which were a regular occurence.....in fact the norm!). One of the last incidents I remembered was about 3 in the morning (I think it was a Saturday night) and cops were parked right outside my house blocking off the A518, I was awake anyway and as I can't smoke in the house I went out with a brew for the guy and had a chat, expecting it to be another drunken smash. Turns out one of the regulars had too many, lost the plot and locked his missus and kid in the car, doused it in petrol and had a shotgun

The place used to be fantastic when I was a kid but the last owner (who I've met plenty of times and who was a vile man and a drunk, disliked by just about every other pub landlord in the area....so much so I know that at the time he ran it staff at The Woolpack in Weston, where I worked at the time, and the staff at Weston Hall & Saracens Head were to alert the manager directly as soon as he came in due to the amount of problems he caused. I can remember at least 3 seperate times where we had to apologise to customers due to his behaviour!) totally ran the place into the ground. The food went rubbish, the beer was rubbish and it was frequented by trouble makers. The location that is, right next to Amerton farm, it should have been raking it in like it used to!
 

Lucy

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There's a notice up suggesting they are letting out the grounds as allotments.
 

Mudgie

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I've only just noticed in a Stafford Newsletter of last month the death aged 81 of Malcolm Cooper who had kept the Plough at Amerton, and the Crown and Anchor before that.
 
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