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Magna Science Adventure Centre, Magna Way, Templeborough , Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 1FD
12-15 February 2025
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The pub consists of: a public bar with darts board and skittles table; a good sized lounge bar with a small entertainer's podium in one corner; a larger than customary snug with a warm ambiance enhanced by timber clad walls. Parts of the interior are relatively unaltered since the 1960s. May close earlier than stated if no customers.
Historic Interest
Named in deference to a valiant General of the British Empire and, for a while, the British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, who died 1853 at the age of 71. Built in 1938 by James Hole & Co Ltd of Newark, the pub is a far more recent construction than the neighbouring late Victorian terraced housing. James Hole was taken over by Courage Brewery in 1967, but their fine brewhouse in Newark still survives, converted to other uses.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
A 1938 brick-built pub, little altered since extensions around 1960. The curved bar counter in the front lounge is probably original, though the top is Sixties Formica. A stone-arch fireplace and the fixed seating also date from 1938 but the bar back shelves are later, as is the ply wall panelling. Another original bar counter is to be found in the rear concert room, again with 1960s accretions in the form of leatherette padding plus other changes from that time like the glass bar back shelves and ply panelling. In the public bar, both bar counter (plain with formica inlay top) and bar back are from the 1960s when this room was extended into the house next door.
Built 1938 of brick and retaining three rooms, it is little altered since extending into the next door house in c.1960. The lounge at the front has a curved counter which could be original with a 1960s Formica top, the walls are completely covered in 1960s ply panels, the two section ceiling has a good cornice, the Tudor-shaped stone arch fireplace could date from 1938, fixed seating could be the original 1938 and re-upholstered, but the bar back shelves look more 1960s. Note the âGentsâ and âLadiesâ signs date from c.1960 but the gents retains its original terrazzo floor. The rear concert room with cornice retains a counter that also looks original with leatherette padding added in the 1960s, more ply panelling wall around the servery, glass bar back shelves indicating 1960s changes and boxed-in fixed seating, difficult to date but could be original. A terrazzo passage leads to the toilets where the gents has a c.1960 sink. The public bar has a plain counter with Formica inlay top so more 1960 than 1938 and the bar back looks 1960s. The room was extended by the purchase of the house next door and there is a Leicestershire Cheese Skittle table in the new part. Replacement windows.
Sir Charles Napier, Leicester
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