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Boost as new pub opens its doors
Monday 18th August 2008, 11:50AM BST.
A £500,000 pub run by operator JD Wetherspoon opened in Shrewsbury today creating 40 jobs.Bosses are hoping the new Lloyds No 1 bar, Montgomery’s Tower, will prove popular in the town after it opened on the site of the former Bar Med in Lower Claremont Bank.
The pub will feature photographs and information boards relating to the history of Shrewsbury and will specialise in real ales, with food being served throughout the day.
It includes two bars and a dance floor with DJs due to play music on Friday and Saturday evenings.
David Gregg, manager of the bar, said it had opened at 9am today.
He said: “We’re open from 9am each day and are hoping we will be an asset within the town centre and will add to the vibrant nightlife.”
Meanwhile, Wetherspoon has said a pub planned for the Pride Hill Shopping Centre is due to open next year.
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Time to put the domino’s down and a new reason to put the dancing shoes on again!
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whatever happened to sidoli’s in the town, any one know, their ice cream was and may still be the business. good luck to wetherspoons, bad luck about the pubs that will close in town
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Good to know the place has reopened under new ownership, owned by the Weatherspoons chain though!
We need new interest coming in the area to create fresh ideas for pubs/bars though, no need for a Weatherspoons monopoly.
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Oh, dear! What’s this? A good food menu? Clean surroundings? Entertainment? And… Real ale?
Doesn’t Wetherpoons know you only have to give punters some dodgy geezer with a ropey sound system and a box of rubbish CDs once a week? And that you don’t need to bother with the real ale stuff? It’s too hard to keep properly (you have to clean the pipes every day, not just whenever you can be bothered) so just give the punters chemical lager and chemical keg bitter. It’s all the customers deserve, anyway!
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