Craigyboy2

It's been bought by a new pubco who bought it as part of 200 and odd from Greene King. Their business model is to lease it out under a new tied model...only problem is you're tied to Greene King for 3 years

Not sure I follow your logic there. If three pubs doing the same thing can thrive then so can four if all the clientele want the same things. Case in point, The Brothers at Heeley has been really successful doing exactly the same things as The Sheaf View (probably THE best real ale pub in Sheffield). They now share the clientele between them and The White Lion is getting in on the act too with a better cask ale offering. Quite a "Real Ale Triangle" up there now. Although in many ways a USP is vital the most important thing is to know what people want and to give it to them

Italian Night coming up on 30th August. 5 courses and wines to match each course. Details on website

Our website is up and running finally. It just needs a few updates over the next couple of days. You can find it at http://www.castleinnbradway.co.uk

Yeah, i'm working on a simple website at present and hope to have it up and running by 1st June. We have a band on 7th June to coincide with the 3 Valleys Beer Festival. Every bus will be stopping in our car park for around 15 mins throughout the day so there's plenty of time for a quick half before he sets off again.

Thanks for that. We're in love with it already which always helps. Marie is a local girl anyway and here first job 20 years ago was here along with her mum. Her mum's now come to work for us here so it really is full circle!

Thanks Andy you're quite right! hiding our light under a bushell ain't gonna help. So, here goes: All our food is home cooked and features locally sourced and reared ingredients. Website and menu will be up soon. We have food Tues - Fri 12.00 till 2.00 and 5.00 till 8.00 Saturday food is 12.00 till 8.00 Sunday Lunch is a speciality featuring rare breed beef and pork or half a chicken and all the trimmings and runs from 12.00 till 3.00 Fridays will be fish night Live bands on first Saturday of every month and finally....for now The 3 Valleys beer festival bus will be stopping in our car park en route all day on the 7th June. We'll be either doing a barbie for fast food if the weather's good or chilli and rice, curry and rice etc if the weather's not so good Phew

As the new manager of the Castle can I say that as long as people are friendly and respect everyone else in the pub and surrounding area, then anyone's welcome...5 pints, 10 pints or lime and soda. As we like to say "at The Castle, there are no strangers...just friends you haven't met yet Craig & Marie

I lived on the Bowden Wood Estate for the first 40 of my 50 years and used to spend all summer on what we called "The Plateau" playing football, cricket, golf. Allsorts. Originally, as Daryl says, the old single carriageway Parkway ran to the roundabout at Handsworth. There was no slip road as the road ended at Handsworth. Then one day in 1974 the diggers arrived and spent the summer carving a path through the plateau that became the Sheffield Parkway 2 which was a dual carriageway and went to the M1. The inbound and outbound carriageways were much further apart then and the old plateau formed an Island between them. The mystery road was part of the outbound carriageway. When the mosborough link was built later, the inbound and outbound carriageways were closed up so to speak, leaving the old outbound road as the mystery road. Hope that helps

OMG! Just read that back...never realised. Thanks Westieman

When I was a kid in the 70's, we used to get chip butties in the hols from The Three Feathers Pub on Bowden Wood and they came wrapped in Fleatchers Bread wrappers. They were greaseproof paper then tho', not plastic bags

Hi Try Frymaster on Attercliffe Common. Where the old Omega Sauna used to be. It's a really nice Restaurant, very clean, warm and comfy. The girls waiting on are very pleasant. Prices are VERY reasonable and they cook in dripping. Best chips since the demise of Stan's.

Hi Jacqui yes my Aunt Doreen lived on Swan street. Both her and my dad are still alive, my mum died in Jan 2010. I mentioned your family to my dad and he remembers you all. He doesn't do internet tho but he's like most people from the 'cliffe, says he loved it and misses it and wishes it could be like it was.

Hi Only just found this post so apologies. My Grandparents, Frank & Alice Harris lived at 3/3 Whitworth Lane oppposite the "Cop Shop". My Mum and dad Malcolm and Margaret Harris lived with them after they were married and I was born there in 1962. We moved up to Bowden Wood in 1963

Hi, Not sure if it's any help but there was a Joan Housley who lived on Whitworth Lane at around the same time as my Grandparents in the 50's and early 60's. She married a Frank Taylor and moved up to the Bowden Wood Estate at around the same time we did in '63