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Robin Hood

Date of photo: 2022

Picture source: Ian Chapman


 
The Robin Hood was situated at 237 Droylsden Road.
 

A cracking old pub with great beers, this was my local from being 17. Had a landlord and landlady, the Lindsays - they had it for years (I went to Brookdale Park High School with their three kids) They were real old school tenants, didn’t really like people being in and hated ‘newcomers’. Think ‘Early Doors’… Lmfao…

When they retired and sold up, another couple of tenants took over. Bob and Denise Lamb…..what a great pair they were, they had the place busy every night….football teams, darts, cards always busy with something in the vault. Great crowd of regulars and staff. They made a fair few quid in there, and then Marston's brewery saw this and got greedy, so when up for renewing their tenancy, they said they could only stay on as managers. You can imagine the Lambs answer to tha.

So, they sadly left, and Marston’s in their wisdom put a manager in, some cockney without a clue, and within six months he had lost the vault, and most of the ‘room’ too. A succession of managers came and went, each trying to get the old crowd back without success, (once you lose ‘em, hard to get ‘em back!) and it inevitably spiraled down through the route of serving ‘kids’ WKDs and then druggies got in, and it now sits boarded up.

See it whenever I visit my old man round there, and brings a tear to the eye to see it like it is now. I see great memories and people looking at it.

Source: David Bickerdike
 

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