A Crowdfunder has been launched to try and save a traditional pub in Stretford that’s at risk of being turned into flats.
The Robin Hood pub on Barton Road has been left in a state of disrepair since it closed in 2018, but a team of locals think it still has the potential to be an ‘amazing community pub’.
They’re hoping to raise enough money – £5000 – to pay for surveys and legal advice so they can try to save the space.
Pictures taken inside the pub show that it’s riddled with damp and mould, with broken floorboards, crumbling ceilings, and boarded-up windows.
But it’s also a grand Edwardian building, with an ornate red brick facade, stained glass windows, beautiful tiles and bags of charm.
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The Robin Hood was bought by developers who intended to turn it into flats and build houses in the large car park.
Those behind the Crowdfunder campaign, who describe themselves as ‘a band of merry Mancunians’, say they believe ‘this space is part of Stretford’s Heritage and should be restored to a traditional pub for the whole community to enjoy’.
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Inside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford. Credit: Instagram, @savetherobinhood
Inside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford. Credit: Instagram, @savetherobinhood
Inside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford. Credit: Instagram, @savetherobinhood
Inside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford. Credit: Instagram, @savetherobinhood
The campaign states: “Stretford has some great bars, but with no other traditional pubs in our town centre, the loss of this building would leave a hole at the heart of our ever expanding community that we’ll never mend. They just don’t build pubs like this anymore do they?”
It continues: “We hope to reach an agreement with the developers. Then the real work begins, there’ll be more funds to raise and we’ll be setting up a Community Benefit Society and offering everyone in the community a chance to have a share of the pub!
This Manchester bar serves a bottomless cheese fondue with endless beer and wine
Georgina Pellant
There’s a bar in Manchester serving a bottomless cheese fondue with endless wine and beer, and it honestly sounds like the perfect treat.
While it might scream cosy winter night in, with a huge outdoor terrace, The Mews is also a firm favourite during the summer months.
Add in a board of melt-in-the-mouth charcuterie, springy pieces of garlic sourdough and a host of crunchy cheese biscuits, and you’ve got yourself the ideal afternoon if you ask us.
But there’s more. Alongside all that cheese and meat and bread, included in the price of The Mews’ bottomless fondue, cheese lovers can also enjoy 90 minutes of non-stop drinks.
Bottomless cheese fondue at The Mews on Deansgate in Manchester. (Credit: The Manc Eats)
Costing £37.50 each, included in the deal is a huge pot of melted Italian Fontina cheese served with homemade garlic croutons, sourdough crackers, and slices of British charcuterie.
You’ll also get to enjoy an hour and a half of endless pints of house pilsner and carafes of red or white wine to enjoy alongside.
Serving up to six people, the bottomless cheese fondue is available only when you pre-book, so make sure to get in touch ahead of your visit to let The Mews know that you’re coming.
If you’re not on the sauce, you can opt for the cheese fondue alone. Without the booze, it’s quite a bit cheaper at £25 for one, and £2.50 on top for any additional people who want to get stuck in.
Housed up on Deansgate Mews, just behind the main hustle and bustle of Deansgate, there’s plenty of space inside as well as a large, secluded terrace that is quite the suntrap (when the Manchester sun is shining).
Popular Manchester restaurant bar to give out FREE sausage rolls to people called ‘Greg’
Emily Sergeant
One of Manchester’s much-loved restaurant bars is doing a free sausage roll giveaway next week… but there’s a catch.
The catch being you have to have a certain name in particular.
It was only last week that popular high street chain Pret A Manger announced it would be slinging out free sandwiches to any Mancs with ‘Nic’ in their name over the late May bank holiday weekend, and now Tariff & Dale is getting it on the giveaway action, and it’s all to celebrate the iconic event that is National Sausage Roll Day.
In case you didn’t know – which is very likely, let’s be real – next Thursday (5 June) is the day dedicated to all things sausage roll.
So what better way to mark the occasion than with free portions of Tariff & Dale‘s legendary meaty treat?
The popular Northern Quarter restaurant bar is known for its creative comfort food, craft beers and cocktails, and laid-back industrial vibe, with one of the cult-classic dishes on its menu having always been the honey pork sausage roll – which just so happens to be a whopping 15-inches long, by the way.
Resembling something more of a pork wellington than a sausage roll, if you will, the dish is crispy, golden, and glazed with honey on top.
But to celebrate National Sausage Roll day, instead of parting with £9.50 for a portion or £48 for the full 15-inch thing, people with one specific name can actually get a slice for completely free of charge.
Tariff & Dale is giving away FREE sausage rolls to people with this name next week / Credit: Supplied
And that name is ‘Greg’, because if we’re honest, when it comes to sausage rolls, we all tend to think of Greggs.
So whether your surname is Gregory or Gregson, or you’re simply just called Greg, then all you need to do to claim your complimentary slice of sausage roll heaven is head on down to Tariff & Dale next Thursday 5 June from 12pm up until 9pm.
Daisy Jackson -
7th June 2022 
