LETTER: Assheton Arms has always been a traditional pub
It reports the new tenant “plans to turn the centuries old Assheton Arms into a traditional pub, serving real ales and great British food”. Whether this quote can be attributed to the new tenant or merely the reporter’s interpretation, it is a slur on the family who have been running it for the past 28 years as “a traditional pub, serving real ales and great British food”.
No change needed, but what I fear we might get is a tarted up version of what the make-over people see as a traditional pub, with inflated prices for the food and ale just because a so-called TV personality is to put his name to the business.
Let us hope Lord Clitheroe maintains his idiosyncratic principles with regard to the pub.
PETER HARGREAVES,
Sabden