My Mother, Shirley, was the last landlady before it was
demolished from approximately January 1987. The pub was on the weekend
Penistone Road pub crawl until the bus stop was moved from outside
Owlerton Stadium to outside the Crown , which was further up the road and
is still there today.
The pub was a thriving weekend haunt and Monday to
Friday was a typical working class pub with dart and domino teams.
Match days saw it packed with both home and away fans
every week, to the extent of running out of glasses and the weekly pie and
peas.
Sadly missed but not forgotten , by many, it was
demolished after 6 months of standing empty.It exact location is the car
park of the Kentucky
