Just seen that The Flying Standard has been sold to a company called Coffer Corporate Leisure Ltd.
Looks like they specialise in buying pubs etc. so looks like we could be getting a decent pub in there rather than the damp smelling shithole it currently is.
Yeah, because at the moment it is more like a Spotted Dick.I like the name The Spotted Dog. A proper pubs name.
Should petition to get the new place called it.
Looking at Coffer's website, it doesn't look like they buy and sell property in the leisure sector, but provide advice to those who want to. What's the source of this report, Garrison?
So reading deeper into this, it has been sold to a "private investor" (for £3.2M), who were advised by Coffer's. No more detail about the investor or why Wetherspoon have chosen to sell the place, and i have to say i'm quite surprised they are letting it go (unless they are merely selling the freehold and will continue as tenant, but that ain't their usual business model). Council rates might be an issue on a place with that floor area. Does it leave them without a place in central Cov?
Isnt there one in the Sky Dome?
Where exactly was this, Dutch? There was a Spotted Dog in Woodway Lane as well.It's on the site of a pub which was originally called "The Spotted Dog" and there was strong pressure to name it that when the former Timothy White building was converted into a pub.
The old Lloyds is also one isn't it?
Yeah the spon gate its called, decent like for a couple
isn't the Spon gate in the Sky Dome? Fuck me there's that many of them it's confusing.
Yeah its alright in there for a few, don't really go out in Cov much tbh its gone well downhill
Yeah the spon gate its called, decent like for a couple
No it's not, it's the Earl of Mercia or something.
Where exactly was this, Dutch?
Erm it either is or was lol, earl of Mercia is on the corner next to the old council house
Cheers Dutch!It was in The Bull Ring, just below Butcher Row before both were redeveloped as Trinity Street. So pretty much in exactly the same place as The Flying Standard is now.
Holy Shit - i used to drink in the Last Plantagenet on Granby Street in Leicester when i lived there. Pretty much before 'Spoons was a "thing". Maybe trying to focus on a core market, or lose pubs with giant square metreage which will cost them dear.It wasn't listed here on pubs they'd actively marketed, there is more to this I think :
JDW to put 16 pubs on the market
What he said.Earl of Mercia is the one, it used to be Lloyds. I think Spon Gate used to be Orange House or maybe Chicago Rock? Something like that
I know you were only joking but Timothy Whites famously 'merged' with near-identical Boots in 1968 then disappeared almost overnight as a separate brand name.Holy Shit - i used to drink in the Last Plantagenet on Granby Street in Leicester when i lived there. Pretty much before 'Spoons was a "thing". Maybe trying to focus on a core market, or lose pubs with giant square metreage which will cost them dear.
Looks like they are being sold off, not just selling the freehold and staying as tenants. Surprised about the Standard, to be honest. Maybe it's returning to Timothy Whites!!
I had an aunt who worked as a pharmacist for White's, and yes the "merger" with Boots led to a fairly rapid loss of all mention of the old brand.I know you were only joking but Timothy Whites famously 'merged' with near-identical Boots in 1968 then disappeared almost overnight as a separate brand name.
Even in Timothy Whites days it was sublet to a number of other businesses:
Why is he a tramp just because he championed the cause of a free and independent Britain?Brexit tramp Tim Martin has been in the City arms a couple of times recently, this is probably the reason he's been in the area.
Why is he a tramp just because he championed the cause of a free and independent Britain?
Are all the 17.4 million voters who gave this government the biggest mandate in history also tramps? Or is this derogatory term saved only for people who choose to express a different opinion to yours?
Late 40s or early 50s as the new Owen Owen store has not been built yet.Wow! Hasn't changed much at all really. What year is that, 60s?
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