Saturday, 25 June 2011
3 The Royal Oak - Littleborough
First visited : Not too sure - early 90s at a guess
The Royal Oak is set back from the main part of Littleborough Square , hidden behind the Roundhouse building from most angles. Unlike The Wheatsheaf it is eighteenth century ( note the original windows on the third storey ) and a former coaching inn.
With The Royal Oak it was the fact that it was a Robinsons pub that put me off due to the disgusting bouquet of their beer when you put your nose into the glass. I eventually went in for quiz fixtures and found it acceptable rather than really nice inside. The original wooden beams are a plus.
I noted that the landlord, a Mr Kenneth Brown, provided the best sandwiches of the pubs in the league so that when our quiz team had to find a new home in 1994 we re-located there at my suggestion and became Royal Oak B.We only played there for a year ; the sandwiches couldn't ward off the boredom among those of us that had been playing since 1988 and we disbanded in 1995. That's probably the last time I was in there.
The Royal Oak was always the quietist of the three town centre pubs in my time and probably remains so today.
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