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The Engine Room was situated on South Street and is now used as an Indian restaurant. It was previously known as The Railway Tavern.

This pub was known as `The Sun’ in the 1960s & 1970s, and was very popular with the Irish drinkers, the Irish as a community having arrived in large numbers in the 1950s due the labour shortage, and the need of Courtualds, Crittalls, Lake and Elliot for workers.

J.Doyle (February 2015)

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Picture source: Darkstar