The Station Hotel, Ashton Under Lyne

What a brilliant, bullsiht free boozer. Biker run, live music, excellent weekend rock DJ and well kept ales. This place might be run down physically but morally it is the best pub in the area. Talking to Pauline, the pub runs a community mental health care project on Thursday nights and a MENCAP social once a month, staffed entirely by volunteers. It is involved in Animal rescue projects and is a a hotspot for some of the local Socialist groups. The place is almost run like a commune, it's either a glorious throwback to the late 80s or the future of community pubs in the UK.
Racist? Are you having a bloody laugh? I am black, the landlord is Jewish, half the regulars are Eastern European, and the DJ is mixed race Syrian/South American! I have never been in a more off the wall, welcoming and inspiring pub in my life!

18 Aug 2014 10:38