Old Harry could be a bit of a misery and he
once famously turned away a coach load of customers and sent them to the
Mount Inn over the road, "they serve food" he said. Well it would have
spoiled his quiet Tuesday afternoon wouldn't it? :) He also supposedly
kept an old bandage sling behind the bar and slipped it on if any tourist
coach parties came in on summer afternoons, and he'd say " I'm on my own
with me bad arm, sorry you'll have to go next door"
After Harry retired the pub soon went to a
much younger landlord named Dale Evans, he had it for a few years then not
long after the brewery sold it. It has opened as an antiques shop and
nearly opened as a Thai restaurant, only to never open for some reason
after half the alterations were done. It has been mostly un-occupied for
the last 15 years. Coincidentally it opened this weekend as some sort of
curio emporium!(sigh).
