Spring Pub of the Season 2008

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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.

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Winter Pub of the Season 2007

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The Bar – Chorlton

 

 

Trafford branch had a great evening recently at the Bar in Chorlton.

The event being the presentation of the Winter Pub of the Season award to Jenny Pearson, the manager (on the right). The beer was on wonderful form, namely Ginger Marble, Manchester Bitter and JP Best from the Marble brewery, Phoenix, Thirsty Moon and Pictish Alchemist Ale, closely followed by Brewers Gold. The branch would like to thank Jenny and her hardworking staff, who kept the beer flowing all night and for the wonderful buffet which was provided for everybody.

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