Not surprised no one went in looking like that....
It did look a little grander, in its heyday - but not much !
Me and my sister sent many afternoons in the back yard of the Duke.....bottle of pop and two straws.
No kids allowed inside.....none of this "family pub" nonsense you get these days. Smoky rooms, Shipstones beer (Gold Label barley wine for the ladies) and darts was the order of the day !
Lifes a funny old thing when we left the garths we got a house,with a garden in the slummiest street in the worst part of town garden walls were knocked down,fences were burnt during the min