Re: Another one bites the dust
 

No doubt he decor is out of this world:D or it should be

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

I'm led to believe it is to become a clothes shop:confused:

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

The Roebuck in Rishton has now closed, hopefully temporarily, due to the brewery/management company not budging on fittings.

Charging over £700 per month for kitchen appliances that have not been passed and cannot be used until they say so is really helping the tenants, isn't it?

Free houses and Wetherspoons are the way forward for our pubs, it's the only decent option left.

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

What Brewery owns the Roebuck Ken?

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Enterprise Inns and it's a shame that this situation has come about because in terms of layout it is the best pub in the village. Open fire, very good smoking area, plenty of lounge and dining space plus a piano!

It would have made an absolutely ideal eating house and precisely what the tenants were aiming for but couldn't get the support from the management.

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Don't seem very enterprising to me Ken:(

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Symptomatic behaviour of most of the major chains now, John.

Squeeze every penny out of the decent pubs until the tenants pack up and leave, ship in someone 'temporary' then shut altogether after six months and blame the taxation system. Many of them seem to have slipped in an extra layer of management as well for some bizarre reason.

It seems to me that they make so much money from supermarket sales that pubs are too much of a headache but if something is turning you a profit and keeping people happy why fiddle with it?

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

According to their own website, Thwaites have the following pubs available.

Griffins Head...Guide Rent:£15,345.00
Boars Head
Bay Horse Hotel, Manchester Rd
Oddfellows Arms, Whalley Rd
Britannia Inn

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Black Dog and Royal Oak, both in Ossy, available too it seems.

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

The Griffins Head is a surprise, is the Britannia inn the one on Nuttall Street, or the one on Haslingdon Old Road Simon

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Sorry John, it's the one on Haslingden Old Road...although the website says it is now under offer.

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Was actually wondering if the Britannia on Nuttall St. is still open even:confused:

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Yes it is John;)

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Still open,Owned by a leisure company.I think It's Value Inns?

Re: Another one bites the dust
 

Thanks Bernie and Beni, ain't been round that neck of the woods for years, was one of my locals in the 70s when I lived on Nelson St for a while