First visited : July 1993
The Withins is not actually on the A58 but clearly visible across a car park. It is a large family food pub, the first of its kind we've come across. It has its own website and appears to be thriving.
So what was I doing there in 1993 ? I was on a blind date, meeting a girl called Marie I'd found through an ad in the Manchester Evening News. She lived nearby and was of Ukranian descent. It was an odd date because she began by admitting that quite a lot of what she'd written about herself eg her age ( she was younger ) wasn't true. There didn't seem any purpose to these fibs either. She was fairly attractive with those pixie-ish features common to people from that part of the world. She seemed to quite like me but I made a mess of things by giving her the impression that I was too serious too soon. We didn't meet again and I haven't been to The Withins since.
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