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THE BULLS HEAD SWINTON RE-OPENS AS THE CHURCH INN AFTER £210,000 FACELIFT
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Star date: 2nd November 2019 SWINTON PUB SHUT FOR TWO YEARS RE-OPENS The pub formerly known as The Bulls Head on Chorley Road, Swinton, has re-opened as The Church Inn following a two year closure and a £210,000 facelift. The only original feature is the snug bar, and the pub now has pool tables, a dart board and screens showing live sports. Full details here...
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The Bulls Head on the corner of Chorley Road and Station Road which has been shut for two years, re-opened yesterday as The Church Inn following a £210,000 facelift. "There's real excitement and a buzz about the pub reopening" says experienced new manager Stephanie Carter, who will be running the Church with partner Michael Savage "People are made up, and we're looking forward to welcoming back the regulars, while also attracting new customers." The only remaining original feature of the pub is the snug bar, and it features new lighting and décor, refurbished toilets and screens showing live sports and horse racing on Sky Sports, BT Sport and At the Races. There are also pool tables and a dart board. "One of the things we're hoping to introduce is weekend entertainment, but something different, not just karaoke – live artists and bands, Northern Soul nights, and maybe drag acts" explains Stephanie. Mark McGinty, Managing Director of Operations for Hawthorn Leisure, which owns The Church Inn, says: "In Stephanie, we've a seasoned pub operator, who brings bags of experience to what we believe can be a thriving community hub once more. We've worked closely with the police and the local licensing authority since the pub's closure, and they're fully behind our plans for its future." With dozens of Salford pubs having shut down recently, this can only be good news...
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white wrote
at 15:13:59 on 06 November 2019 |
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| DJB seems to find the Star's account as negative.
It's obvious that his regular bias against the Star has been reflected in his inability to read the final sentence of the report 'With dozens of Salford pubs having shut down recently, this can only be good news.'
He, as usual, broadcasting his own warped opinion, failed to note that the negatives were only about the renaming, and made not by the Star but by those who commented. |
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DJB wrote
at 09:01:03 on 05 November 2019 |
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| @David, it wouldn't be right for the SS to find a positive, much better to constantly extenuate the negative. |
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David wrote
at 16:27:41 on 04 November 2019 |
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| Sorry, but instead of bemoaning a name change, should we not be celebrating that its doors are once again open, and it hasn't gone the way of many others? |
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DJB wrote
at 09:06:35 on 04 November 2019 |
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| Like the Inn of Good Hope is not called the Sovereign everyone people will just call it the Bull. |
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Carol Kelly wrote
at 19:37:15 on 02 November 2019 |
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| I could not agree more re. The change in name. As a historical landmark in Swinton, I would be surprised if the name is not protected in some way. The Gravewatchers club was not only to stop robbery of valuables that had been buried, but also to protect freshly interred bodies which were used for trainee doctors and surgeons. It still has part of its old on site brewery equipment in one of the old outbuildings. The solicitors next door on Station Road still has the address, No2 The Old Brewery, not Station Road.
History is so important, and should not be meddled with. The building deserves to keep its historic name. |
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fletcher wrote
at 17:10:30 on 02 November 2019 |
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| It is virtual sacrilege to rename the Pub as The Church Inn.
Although extensively rebuilt around 1826, it has been ‘The Bull’s Head’ for something over 300 years, during which it has not only been a drinking place but, a site for keeping watch for grave robbers, and a coroners court, as well as the first meeting place for Swinton Football Club [when the played on a field just off Station Road, then Burying Lane].
Renovate the pub by all means, it needed it, but keep the old name which is one of the few remnants of [very] old Swinton that survive.
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