Wander into the Coach and Horses pub on a Tuesday afternoon and you’ll find half a dozen punters putting the world to rights in one of the side rooms or perched along the bar, chatting with landlady Sue Hawley as she prepares for a busy evening trade.
Inside the pub on Bury Old Road you’ll also spot a newspaper clipping hanging from the wall. Dating back several decades, the paper has frayed and turned a reddish-brown, but squint and you can still make out the words.
A window into the pub’s storied past, it was published some time after Arthur Burnham took over the pub in 1980 - “a real gent”, Sue tells me. Under the headline ‘Real ale buffs pick the Coach’, it reads: “If you like your pubs with that 'lived-in' look then the Coach and Horses is just the job”.
