Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

Here's a piece from the newspaper report .....

'Novice licensee Kaye Whitehead, 51, and partner John Halliwell, 66, pulled their first pints for a packed pub a week last Saturday.

John, who has lived within a couple of miles of the pub his whole life, said: "We don't view it as a pub, we view it as a community centre – we all meet there.

"If we hadn't done what we have done then it would have stayed closed and that would be no good at all."

Two other couples, John and Bev McCarrick and Kevin Lloyd and his wife Marina, are involved with the day-to-day running of the pub, but The Bell, as it is known, has reopened thanks to the efforts of the whole community' ....


It looks like they are keeping it open, on the owners behalf, until a new leaseholder is found. It also looks like they're doing this at their own expense, too. They're very brave.
And, if that's the case, the owners will be rubbing their hands together, because it's going to be far easier for them to pass on a 'going concern' rather than a closed down, dead business.