Is staying open

How come?

I've heard someone put a bid in for it, as a pub so will presume that's the case/reason.

I hope they put the alcoves back in, and the partitions. They seemed to give a better all-round drinking experience.

I can still 'see' my dad sitting in the alcove nearest the bar, with his pint

I think a new layout will help, we just have to wait and see.

Wonder if they fancy taking a Sunday team back in!

excellent news, it's just not right that the pubs get demolished because they aren't making money right now. In 5 - 10 years they could be booming again, who knows? If it's been turned into 3rd rate modern houses, the only person who benefits is the property developer. Not right at all

Sometimes money just isn't the most important aspect of life, as some seem to think it is

its a london based company.

I've never been in the Woodcutter and probably won't go there now either.

But it can't be a bad thing that the pub has been saved as a pub.

Me either, despite going to school just round the corner...

When we moved back in 1996, me and our lass used to go often for the last couple of hours in the middle room which was always busy..... then they ripped it out to make a horrible barn of a place, never quite the same and stopped going.

Just as a matter of interest, I used to past as a five year old daily when it was getting built. There was a big farm house where the school caretakers house is and a farm gate at the entrance to the roundabout, but guess what was on the site of the Woodcutter .....?

Half right.

A duck pond........ quack!

That's just quackers

So it has a good chance of still being open for its centenary next year? Excellent news.

Centenary.....? I was carrying my Trafalgar commemorative mug and still mourning Admiral Nelson at the time....

Will drink to that! hope they make a go of it.

Hope tommy can get the bands back on Again. Seen some really good musicians on there

Tommy knew the score about the bands, but he had a falling out with the new people after we left it... shame really cos he did a great job bringing folks in I thought.

I made a new year's resolution to drink in more of my local pubs, as I would hate for any more of them to shut. There's still 8 or 9 within staggering distance of my house but go back five years and there was about 15. The remaining ones are busy enough on weekends but during the week they're dead.

Once they're gone they're gone. You won't get flats/Tesco Metros/restaurants etc turned back into pubs again.

precisely

What's happened like?

Mad John that's whats happened

probably decided to have one last hoorah Christmas must the most profitable week in the calendar for "local" pubs.

It was getting knocked down regardless but the owner offered the chance for the tenants to make some money over the xmas and new year period as the pub will be more or less down by end of january, and better have it occupied and claiming rent as to have it shut with no income from it

There's probably an obvious answer, but why is it that people don't buy pubs off their own bat, independently of breweries? Then they could order beer from whomever they liked and wouldn't be screwed over by price-fixing by the big companies.

Big pubcos don't like to sell to independents as they may threaten the other pubs they own in an area. Recently loads of them have been selling off pubs only to developers to turn them into residential use. Big pubcos are on the whole a bunch of bastards.

The only new large pub that was privately owned in the town I can think of was the Schooner when first built and I think the breweries turned it down so Roy and Gerry bought the land and developed it into a cracking pub for over 5 years. They then had enough and sold it to the breweries I think for a fair whack and it went down hill from there tbh.

Used to enjoy the carverys in the Schooner. I think they were only £3.99 during the week as well.

I'm assuming the obvious answer is simply the cost. Buying a pub outright will set you back a few hundred thousand, with no real guarantee of turning enough profit to make it worthwhile.

The pub co's offer a cheaper alternative 'on paper' but put a hell of a lot of obstacles in the way with regards to the tie.

its an industry at the moment that doesnt seem to be turning much of a profit, unless your loons or showroom.

make more money turning it into a little tesco.

notice theres a greene king place opening up on the brenda road/belle vue roundabout, thats what pubs are nowadays only profit is from the scran really.

Aye, The Fens is have a refurb after Xmas and will start to serve food.

Thanks for replies. Yes, I suppose it would be quite a risky venture, but if the pub were also your home, that would minimise outlay.

There used to be a bar in Beverley, run by two old ladies who served beer over a make-shift bar in their front room....went down very well with the locals!

Why did the Woodcutter thing fall through?

maybe cos he is a greedy 'lovely lovely person'

sorry...in case he reads this and wants to send the lads round..... I meant maybe cos he's a self serving with no thoughts for anyone else greedy 'lovely lovely person'

The "Local" is now a thing of the past .. A British way of life ruined by cheap booze in the supermarkets..

I think there's a bit more to it than cheap booze in the supermarkets. The people who aren't working 50 hours + to try and have a decent standard of living are doing other things in their spare time. There's hundreds of tv channels, dvd's, internet, facebook, xbox, towie and candy crush saga. There just isn't the interest in going to the local and most people also don't usually have the spare cash to pop in 2 or 3 times per week. I doubt the smoking ban helped things either.

I used to go to the fens every night for 2 or 3 after work, changed jobs so now I don't bother - I don't miss it one bit.

I noticed on the sign yesterday that "Unit 3" of the new Mowbray is going to be a "Micro Pub"!!

whats that mean? Like a litte tiny pub?

Its a pub for Compo

Aye, like the Rat Race. They're opening up all over the place, and they seem to make good business sense to me.

Return of the off door?

Heard over the holidays that the Greenies is going next. Bought by and going to be developed for housing by the mob who have just built the one on Brenda Road roundabout?

I wouldn't say cheap booze in the supermarket has ruined local pubs, the appeal of the bars in the town centre such as King Johns, Pearl Bar and even Showroom where pint prices can be £2 under whereas in the likes of local pubs such as the Fens is £3+.

I mentioned the one at the Fens to someone earlier and apparently there's one in Boro owned by a Pools fan.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/featur ... ing_small/

Good lad is Phil, Im going to check his Boro gaff out pretty soon.

I don't know how him opening the place seemed to have passed me by.

well, the irony is ... my debt from tghe pub has outlived the pub itself

It will be paid off in 6 months time... by which time the pub wuill be gone

How can I owe money still from something that isn't evenm there?

It feels like the title Pools were robbed of in 2003... by a club that isn't there any more....


This is what Will O' the Wisp must feel like