Another one bites the dust - Page 6

jaysay · 30-09-2010, 09:26

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Originally Posted by accysimon

Yes, John, Rubin's name rings a bell.
I know that the current owner also owns Porter Bros and Gardner, and has done a terrific job with the pub. The food is great and its almost always busy.

No doubt he decor is out of this world

or it should be

Benipete · 05-10-2010, 14:49

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I assume planning permission has been granted for change of use, so it should not be to difficult to find out what this place will become.

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

Ken Moss · 06-10-2010, 08:12

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.

jaysay · 06-10-2010, 08:44

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

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.

What Brewery owns the Roebuck Ken?

Ken Moss · 06-10-2010, 09:07

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.

jaysay · 06-10-2010, 09:16

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Enterprise Inns

Don't seem very enterprising to me Ken

Ken Moss · 06-10-2010, 16:31

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Don't seem very enterprising to me Ken

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?

accysimon · 06-10-2010, 16:48

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

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?

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

accysimon · 06-10-2010, 16:50

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

jaysay · 06-10-2010, 17:53

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Originally Posted by accysimon

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

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