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The Sumners closed?

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The Sumners closed?

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I've heard in the last week that the Sumners has closed with no clear indication if it will re-open again.

The Sumners used to be a must prior to North End until it seemed they where more interested in getting away supporters in than focussing on their regulars and PNE supporters. The last time I went in prior to the Birmingham game it is clear to see that Greene King and the constant changes of landlords/managers have let the place run down, the seats where so black it looked like they hadn't been cleaned for years.

I only go in occasionaly now because of the poor way it has been run, they haven't taken card payments any time I have been in recently and on the last occasion it was all plastic pots to drink from. With someone in who actually cares it could still be a decent boozer, albeit it is clearly Saturdays if will take the most money. It is sad the state Greene King have allowed it to get into.

If it has closed down then it will be the end of a historic PNE linked pub and will mean there are no pubs within a couple of miles of Deepdale which will be a sad day.
 
Chip Barm said:
I've heard in the last week that the Sumners has closed with no clear indication if it will re-open again.

The Sumners used to be a must prior to North End until it seemed they where more interested in getting away supporters in than focussing on their regulars and PNE supporters. The last time I went in prior to the Birmingham game it is clear to see that Greene King and the constant changes of landlords/managers have let the place run down, the seats where so black it looked like they hadn't been cleaned for years.

I only go in occasionaly now because of the poor way it has been run, they haven't taken card payments any time I have been in recently and on the last occasion it was all plastic pots to drink from. With someone in who actually cares it could still be a decent boozer, albeit it is clearly Saturdays if will take the most money. It is sad the state Greene King have allowed it to get into.

If it has closed down then it will be the end of a historic PNE linked pub and will mean there are no pubs within a couple of miles of Deepdale which will be a sad day.
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It certainly seems like it is finished.. a bloke that I work with lives across from the barracks and he said that it hasn't been open all week !!

A sad day if true... I used to drink in the old summers back in the early 80's
 
You need trade 52 weeks of the year, not every other Saturday afternoon for two hours for nine months. Local residents aren't going to frequent it and it's such a shithole that folk certainly aren't gong to travel to it. Pretty obvious what he outcome will be. Houses.
Anyone that parks north of the ground doesn't have a watering hole as the folk at the White Hart seem happy to have bugger all staff on a match day and keep folk waiting for ages, so we give that a swerve now. Not rocket science landlord. One extra member of staff will cover their hourly wages in five minutes and punters get served quick and have another and another.
 
Deepdale Labour club a 5 minutes walk away from the ground, as is the church club on Blackpool Road.
Moorbrook is a tremendous pub.
White Hart has sky sports and £2 a pint bitter.
 
Wonder where they will send away fans if indeed it closes permantly? There was a story in the LEP the other week and the brewery denied it was closing!

Like someone else said it’s barely worth visiting on a match day yet alone midweek. Nothing some investment and a decent landlord couldn’t sort out. That said Greene King appear to have been running it down for years.

We go into town now but would happily go back to The Summers if they pulled their finger out which at the moment looks unlikely.
 
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Used to go in the Sumners regularly when it was terraced. Soulless "modern" pubs will always die eventually, as do lots of traditional pubs.

The "old" Sumners did it right by having good beer with lots of local support. Still the best way for a pub to make money
 
£45k a year rent!!!!

I wouldnt mind mind if Green King had modernised the place, but it's been a shithole for the last 10+ years.

Im sure it's Greene King that own the Guild on Fylde road and that place makes a killing, even without students.
 
Princess Alice is good post-match in terms of ale and also screens for the late kick off. Usually a decent, friendly atmosphere in there too.

Pre-match I don’t tend to bother doing anything although if I did I would almost certainly be heading to the Moorbrook or Guild Ale House. Everyone knows Sumners has been shite for years.
 
I've always thought it a shithole. Not somewhere I'd go other than on a matchday and I haven't been in on a matchday for a while now.

And Greene King have a poor reputation so it's no surprise they've let it get to this.
 
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It seems you get the legal liability to pay a grand a week on rent. Got to sell a lot of beer.
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The rent is only for starters, business rates, electricity, water, insurance,vat, staff wages with holiday pay, no one wanting to work weekends.
Brewery leases are a complete nightmare, if you happen to do well they penalise you by increasing the rent!
If they are lucky enough to swindle some unsuspecting person with a sugar coated package they will be skint in under 1 year!
 
Bit of a shock this tbh, Ive been away too long it used to be rammed in the late 80's/90's and not just on match days. Can't believe its a shithole as well, used to be quite pleasant in there and certainly better than the Garrison!
 
marsbars said:
Bit of a shock this tbh, Ive been away too long it used to be rammed in the late 80's/90's and not just on match days. Can't believe its a shithole as well, used to be quite pleasant in there and certainly better than the Garrison!
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Same here, I've not set foot in the summers since the 80s. Used to be very busy on Sundays then my teetotal mate would drive us a bit further out to the withy trees, black bull, or that place that used to be sylvesters at the Broughton lights.
Before the match we used to use the County Arms.
 
Dirty Harry said:
Same here, I've not set foot in the summers since the 80s. Used to be very busy on Sundays then my teetotal mate would drive us a bit further out to the withy trees, black bull, or that place that used to be sylvesters at the Broughton lights.
Before the match we used to use the County Arms.
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Ha! All my old stopping grounds Harry. Especially the Bull and I'm glad to see thats still going strong 🙂
 
The Summers never really recovered from being knocked down and rebuilt. For those young enough not to remember the old building there were loads of different parts to it....even had a bit known as the ‘back passage’.
 
Yoowell said:
The Summers never really recovered from being knocked down and rebuilt. For those young enough not to remember the old building there were loads of different parts to it....even had a bit known as the ‘back passage’.
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yes, a typical old cavernous Boddie's pub. Was it the Sumners or the Garrison that had the huge St. Bernard that used to sit in the doorway so you had to clamber over it to get in? - it was very fond of pies IIRC. (I'm going back to around 1970 here and quick lunchtime pints down the road from school).
 
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