Your only chance with any pub is if you own it and can buy your ale wherever you choose.

Leigh arms could be a success IF you buy it and are free to run a quality real ale pub with character.

Was talking to a landlord a few weeks ago who was trying to buy his pub off Punch, he had calculated his ale cost would drop £2000 a week!!!!

Just like Chequers (sp) - that would be fantastic - but would people go?



The little italian (with good food) which opened for a couple of months (near to the G+D)soon had to close due to a lack of business

The problem is all the dipstix walking past when going to/from the restaurant.

didn't they close because someone did one with the takings?

when places shut and even when they dont shut its all about chinese whispers when somebody hear's something then passes to someone else to someone else and so on and so on. How many places in leigh are and have been rumoured to be shutting

I think both are excellent ideas.



However there's not much money to be made in the first (unless you can dip into funding streams, which can be difficult if it's a 'business' rather than a charity) and the second would have to have significant funding behind it, as it would need a long term PR plan which may well mean losing money at first to make money in the long run.

I suppose it depends on whether its freehold or leasehold



then again - a few years ago you'd have a busy pub on a fr, sat, and sun... now it's only really a sat night



leigh arms went down hill when darren took over at bliss, plus the smoking ban, recession



i wouldnt consider taking over a boozer, espeically in leigh

Indeed. It's location was the best, and worst, aspects of it. Always meant to go in but I got the impression that they hadn't decided whether they wanted to be a restaurant or just another latenight takeaway.

225/235k if memory serves me right, thats everything no ties ave seen spec on it also boundary up aswell think thats 260k but a lot more land and bigger premises.

Not a bad investment if it could be made into a car park......

Dont know whether that was the reason but we had 16 deposits for a 50th birthday party disappear!!