First visited : 28 July 2011
This is one I'd forgotten about although it's just a few doors down from The Entwistle Arms. After visiting it this lunchtime, with luck I'll be forgetting it all over again.
Standing amidst an undistinguished row of shops and set slightly back from the road it's easily passed un-noticed. Its best feature is the blue mosaic above the door indicating its former ownership by the long-defunct Bury Brewery Company . This appears to have gone un-noticed by the website breweryhistory.com which maintains a list of such things, a testament to The High Sheriff's unobtrusiveness.
Inside there's absolutely nothing to detain you. It's small, dark and dingy with near-bare walls painted in unfetching shades of brown and maroon. The tiny lounge area is utterly dreary; apart from that you've got an otherwise unfurnished room for the pool table, a tap room from the ark, one fruit machine and some tables in the back yard for the smokers. Other than me there was one old bloke in there.
This is a pub waiting for death and it did actually close for a while last year; the mystery is that anyone thought it worth re-opening.
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