Trafford branch recently enjoyed a social night out giving their Spring PotS award to The Volunteer Hotel on Cross Street, Sale. This impressive public house, first opened in 1898, however it stands on the site of an even earlier pub called the White Lion ,dating from 1807. Now the property of Holts Brewery, the Volunteer Hotel got its name from the Ashton-on-Mersey / Sale Loyal Volunteers fighting force, raised to counter a threatened Napoleonic invasion of England in 1803. The Volunteers drilled on the nearby Sale Moor, just east of the present A56.
Spring Pub of the Season 2008