The Oxleathers.

[Slainte]

Has anyone tried the food at The Oxleathers, or drinks in there at all?

 

[Gramaisc]

I went in there once, probably late 80s, the night Torville and Dean won something or other ( in Sarajevo, I think - if I'm not mistaken ). Don't remember much else. Sorry.

 

[Lunar Scorpion]

No, but the best thing I've heard about that place is that an acquaintance had a gig in there a while ago...

 

[basil]

i'm led to believe that last year following an assault in there someone lost their life......

 

[Slainte]

i'm led to believe that last year following an assault in there someone lost their life......

yeah you're right there.
Someone got punched which i think resulted int he bloke dying

 

[My Name is URL]

Sounds nice!

 

[Slainte]

yeah just a bit, just that I live not far from there, and just wondered what it was like these days

 

[Gramaisc]

There has been some punching involved at the King's Arms quiz on occasion - particularly up to about this time last year - but there were no fatalities. I recall walking in through the front door on one occasion to hear the licensee shouting at 'someone' "How many times have I told you 'Don't punch the customers'?" I do rather miss it.

 

[Slainte]

There has been some punching involved at the King's Arms quiz on occasion - particularly up to about this time last year - but there were no fatalities. I recall walking in through the front door on one occasion to hear the licensee shouting at 'someone' "How many times have I told you 'Don't punch the customers'?" I do rather miss it.

See it went downhill when i stopped working there. i never had to shout that when I worked the bar there

 

[Gramaisc]

There has been some punching involved at the King's Arms quiz on occasion - particularly up to about this time last year - but there were no fatalities. I recall walking in through the front door on one occasion to hear the licensee shouting at 'someone' "How many times have I told you 'Don't punch the customers'?" I do rather miss it.

See it went downhill when i stopped working there. i never had to shout that when I worked the bar there

That's because you weren't her mother!

 

[Slainte]

There has been some punching involved at the King's Arms quiz on occasion - particularly up to about this time last year - but there were no fatalities. I recall walking in through the front door on one occasion to hear the licensee shouting at 'someone' "How many times have I told you 'Don't punch the customers'?" I do rather miss it.

See it went downhill when i stopped working there. i never had to shout that when I worked the bar there

That's because you weren't her mother!

That could be it!!!!
Was it Shannon or Cerys by any chance?

 

[Gramaisc]

I presume that wasn't a random guess. There are issues of anonymity here, but I am prepared to say that the thought of No 2 training up their recently acquired No 3 has led me to enquire about self-defence classes and to investigate the planning regulations regarding moats.

 

[Slainte]

I presume that wasn't a random guess. There are issues of anonymity here, but I am prepared to say that the thought of No 2 training up their recently acquired No 3 has led me to enquire about self-defence classes and to investigate the planning regulations regarding moats.

ha ha nice ne, yeah take the self defence lessons..

 

[Slainte]

apparently this pub has yet a nother landlord, albeit temporary one, until his pub in Wigan is refurbed and another one at end of March taking over.. Its a shame this pub has got such a bad reputation, as on the outside of it, from a distance it looks ideally located and nice sized building etc..

 

[John Marwood]

Stoke on Trent does'nt look too bad from 30,000 feet either

 

[Tants]

Thought I'd get this thread active again. Has anybody been in the Oxleathers recently? We're moving to that end of town and Pubs are pretty few and far between.

Drove past this one tonight and it looks like a really nice pub on the outside but was dead inside. Any reason for this? I thought given the area it was serving it would be more popular?

 

[Hothouse Flower]

Its too rough for the nice people and too nice for the rough people.

It's on highfields. Say no more.


I would rather go teetotal than drink in that neck of the woods.

 

[Trumpet]

Its too rough for the nice people and too nice for the rough people.

Well put.

 

[Tants]

So how do you class "Highfields"? Lot's of the houses to one side of the pub are nice and seems a good area then to the other side you work your way towards West Way which looks a bit rougher. Or are you tarring the whole area with the same brush?

I'm looking at moving to an estate opposite the castle. Seems like the nearest pub unless they build this new hungry horse.

 

[Lucy]

I always thought it was just on Western Downs; mostly because it was built around the same time.