The Linny closed.

Landlady hadn’t been there long at all. The previous steward also didn’t last long so something seems off.

It’s never really been anything like as busy as it was since Covid. Always easy to get served.

Shame.
 
Read about it elsewhere. It was my first "local" in the 70s and early 80s. So many good memories. Landlord Roy, first time I went up to the bar as an underage drinker he said "What can I get you Sir?" . I turned round to see who he was talking to. The beer garden on a sunny summer's day was a great place to be. My parents drank in the tap room for years.
Yeah I remember Roy. I was at school with his daughter, but he didn’t seem to know, thankfully *winky thing*

I don’t really regularly go out to pubs on evenings at all now, but it was my Friday night for decades until quite recently…
 
Read about it elsewhere. It was my first "local" in the 70s and early 80s. So many good memories. Landlord Roy, first time I went up to the bar as an underage drinker he said "What can I get you Sir?" . I turned round to see who he was talking to. The beer garden on a sunny summer's day was a great place to be. My parents drank in the tap room for years.

I went to Kirby college because I was a problem child and the only course I could get on was Travel & Tourism. Didn’t make the majority of my afternoon lessons because I was pickled on Ayingerbrau. Put hairs on your chest that stuff 😂
 
Not been in for years but was my local from the ages of 16 to 39. Used to love the place. Spent many a night in there.

Never thought I’d see it closed. Nice building and beer garden.
 
Landlord Roy, first time I went up to the bar as an underage drinker he said "What can I get you Sir?"
It was the summer I left school so either 85/86 and I was 15. My parents were friends of Roy and I walked up and asked for a pint of lager (probably my last ever as I found brown ale) He looked at me and said "you are almost 18 aren't you?" Them were the days. I lived on Oxford Road and I spent most nights in there with a pint (or just coke) playing pool and beating all that dared to play me :)

Amazing jukebox, 2 pool tables, pinball, quiz machines, god I loved those years. Even though my anxiety was sky high, being a great pool player was one hell of a mask :)
 
The owners have made the Sam Smiths pubs ones we don’t bother with any more
No use of mobile phones , price increases , taxis chased if not got in at once , no music no tv. We used to go all the ones in Boro and Stockton
Very difficult to turn around underperforming pubs when the Management have hands tied behind their backs. Competition these days means you need to do things to attract punters. Sammy Smiths are so hell bent on staying in the past that the struggling ones will continue to do so.

The Endeavour is my local and that changed hands a few years back when a new brewery came in. The people that run it now are always doing stuff every single day - prize draws, quizzes, darts competitions, live bands etc. they’ve completely turned it around. Not too bad for what essentially, is just an estate pub.

Not a chance any of that would be allowed in a Sammy Smiths. Some of my wife’s family have been in The Cooper twice over the years when Humphrey came in for a check up. Both times he seen things he didn’t like, argued with customers then spat his dummy out and shut the pub. Can’t keep doing that and expecting people to go back.
 
Long time since I've been in but used to go in mondays and Fridays for years. I remember prices were 49p for beer and 51p for lager and 54p for snakebite.
 

It's a shame about the Linny, it was my local for many years, although I think I've only been in once since I moved back to the area and it was dead. It was a weekend evening as well.
 
I went to Kirby college because I was a problem child and the only course I could get on was Travel & Tourism. Didn’t make the majority of my afternoon lessons because I was pickled on Ayingerbrau. Put hairs on your chest that stuff
I used to process applications and withdrawals for those courses there for a job in early 2000's - I believe from the grades attained you had 3 choices - travel & tourism, catering or health & beauty.

Seems as long as you had a pulse, you could get in one of those, and churn rate / transfer between courses really high especially in early weeks.

My mate sent me this last night. He has family that go in there from time to time.

I went in last summer on a really warm summer’s evening and it was dead. Years ago it used to be absolutely packed. Used to love a warm summers night in The Linny.

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Imagine opening that at 4pm. Just casually move out by the end of the day
 
My mate sent me this last night. He has family that go in there from time to time.

I went in last summer on a really warm summer’s evening and it was dead. Years ago it used to be absolutely packed. Used to love a warm summers night in The Linny.

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I'm not sure how long they expect to vacate the premises, but surely an afternoon is more than enough time to remove belongings. 🤬

Is Smith deliberately trying to run the company into the ground and push them into bankruptcy? I read @SE4 Red's article a while back and was astounded by the goings-on with Humphrey Smith.
 
A lot of people who used the Linny started to go in the Dormans Club as you do not need to be a member in there now. The Dormans is like a Community Centre now with various rooms for snooker / pool, live music, weddings. £5 for the old folk which includes a Sunday Lunch, bingo and an artist is proving popular. They are one of the last few Clubs with live acts. See the “Dormans New” Facebook page. The Linny is living in the past. It was ok when it was cheap.
 
Imagine opening that at 4pm. Just casually move out by the end of the day

I'm not sure how long they expect to vacate the premises, but surely an afternoon is more than enough time to remove belongings.
The blokes a disgrace and his treatment of others isn’t going to endear me into ever using his pubs again.

He talks about under trading, but as far as I can see, his own actions are what’s running these places into the ground. Good luck finding people who will want to run his pubs if that’s how he treats people as well.
 
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