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Picture source: David Gray

The New Oscott Tavern was situated at 211 Chester Road.  This pub became a Thai Restaurant in 2003. Converted back to a pub, trading briefly as saints & Sinners and the Place 2B, it was taken over by the adjoining garden centre and opened as the Garden Room tea rooms in 2009.

I frequented the bar a lot in my youth 1975-1981 as I lived in Antrobus Road and it was just a short walk down the hill to the pub. I recall there being the usual cluster of regular nightly drinkers, a dart board and hence pub darts team, pool table, fruit machine and pinball machine. Sadly my memory no longer extends to the names of the Landlord and Landlady, but I do recall she used to come and play darts now and again to the delight of a number of the regulars - she was very good looking! The names of the regulars have long gone apart from 'Mick' a carpet-fitter and nightly regular who was pretty good at darts.

Graham Cotton (February 2025)

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