My partner and I moved to the village around a year ago. We have visited various pubs in the area but because this one is dog friendly we have been in in the evening for a quiet drink every now and then. However, there are a few things that I have repeatedly seen in our most recent visits a month or so ago
I know this is par for the course with many pubs but when we saw a fight breakout a weekend or so ago between two men - I don’t know the subject matter. The person behind the bar didn’t do anything to stop it and other customers ended up getting involved helping to get the men to leave. When they left, the bar staff member left after them, 5 minutes later they were back in the pub getting drinks. We felt very uncomfortable so we left pretty much straight the way. If this was one or two occasions I wouldn’t think too much into it as I don’t know the staff who work there or feel confident enough to raise a concern to them. We have informed Marstons pub chain of our concerns but there’s been no change I’ve seen anyway
On one visit there with some family members we noticed what seemed to be a drug deal in the toilets. We mentioned this to a lady who was working behind the bar, an older lady as we didn’t see the landlord. She didn’t seem to be bothered by, it shrugged it off, and didn’t offer us any reassurance that she would raise concerns with the landlord or ask the man to leave. Again, we left promptly.
We haven’t been in for a while because of the drug incident, but we came down for a karaoke event last month for an hour or so. We noticed a member of staff we hadn’t seen before so hoped it would be a good night out, which it was, she was great. However, towards the end of the Karaoke, we were just about to leave as it was getting late and saw an older lady behind the bar shouting at at a customer, a younger girl, who was singing karaoke saying “you are disgusting” amongst shouting other things we couldn’t quite hear. I can’t tell you how shocked we were. We couldn’t see the reason for the outburst and the younger girl looked really upset. I was shocked that customers would be treated this way. A few other customers looked shocked too and some consoled the young girl. It was the last straw for us and we will not be returning again. I hope thIngs change as I feel uncomfortable going back. Especially not with my young family members which is...
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Read moreWe stayed in the campervan in the carpark to break up a long journey (as we found it advetised on a pub stopoversite). There are no amenities for this but there was a warm welcome and a friendly service inside. Unfortunately on the Saturday evening we went it was a really slow night so can't say much about atmosphere etc but the jukebox was canny. There was no food on site but they gave directions to local takeaways and said we were welcome to eat in...
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