goldenfleece Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Anyone been down here recently? Just curious as to how popular it is at the moment and what sort of patrons it has as not been in for many years.......used to be my local back in the 80's, or rather, the NEAREST pub to my house at the time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ousetunes Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 The lease is up for sale and I'm not too sure if it's actually open at present. (No doubt it will soon make way for more 'luxury' apartments....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox20thc Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Why you after another pub GF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 The lease is up for sale and I'm not too sure if it's actually open at present. (No doubt it will soon make way for more 'luxury' apartments....) I know......just wondered about how popular it was these days....its a 300 year old property you know and unlikely to be demolished for housing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 Why you after another pub GF? ..eventually I plan to have a whole portfolio of pubs and maybe form a small pub co.......not parting with the Dove and Rainbow though its proved to be a winner beyond all original highest expectations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade65 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 The Plough is still open. Customers are surprisingly few considering the catchment area......but the pub definitely needs a good overhaul inside, as all the furniture is tatty and threadbare. Also the 'entertainment' offered is a little sparse. No Sky, so no-one in on football days. The quizzes are okay, but aimed at a demographic slightly older than average (I'm 42, and often the quizzes contain questions about popular culture from a time before I can remember - so any youngsters are well out of it). It is a pub with potential though. Ade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted November 17, 2007 Author Share Posted November 17, 2007 Whats fascinating is the fact that most of the ceiling in this pub is false, and hangs on chains from the original roof one floor above, leaving only a tiny living area upstairs as you cant walk on half of the upper floors as they are 'false'. Needs a lot of money spending on it to put back the original floors...... .....it was totally ripped apart in 1982 to become a Whitbread 'fun' pub, featuring a huge Plough suspended from the roof, all black or very dark brown walls, curious raised seating up iron spiral staircases, etc..very popular in the 80's, so why they decided to try and put it back to how it was pre 1982 I have no idea........in fact anyone who has any snaps taken in here between 82 and 87, those years when it was a huge cavernous and dark 'fun pub', let me know as want to see it again like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade65 Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I remember it with the 'upstairs' room, and how busy it used to be. I also remember not too many years ago when the bar was split into two. Personally I like the long bar - but the pub as a whole needs a revamp. Anyhow, it's cheap beer tonight (by the Plough standards!), and shots too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exhausted Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Tried to go up there for lunch on Friday but a Guy called Mark who answered the phone said they were closed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade65 Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Yes, they closed last Monday. The people who had it wanted out, and are no longer running the pub. There was talk of a manager being brought in by the brewery to run it until new tenants/owners/whatever are found, but that hasn't happened yet. Ade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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