Pictures today of the Martin Inn on Dummersdale Lane Scarisbrick.









I have not been down here for a long time and the pub is not how I remember it.

Should that be Drummersdale Lane?

but I aint stupid is right again

Drummersdale Lane?

anyway shame the food is muck and the chef has a preference for boil in the bag

Originally Posted by nodding dog

Drummersdale Lane?

anyway shame the food is muck and the chef has a preference for boil in the bag

Indeed, have they found a perminant landlord yet?

We used to hang out at The Martin circa '73, it was very popular at the time, I remember driving home after last orders and seeing various cars stuck in the ditches with their rear ends skyward. Those were the days.

Originally Posted by Chas King

I remember driving home after last orders and seeing various cars stuck in the ditches with their rear ends skyward. Those were the days.

...and one of them would have been ours Chas. Tut, tut, you never stopped to help! The Martin was great in the 70s. Jam packed, great atmosphere.

Originally Posted by Chas King

We used to hang out at The Martin circa '73, it was very popular at the time, I remember driving home after last orders and seeing various cars stuck in the ditches with their rear ends skyward. Those were the days.

Plus Seivad Said:
" ...and one of them would have been ours Chas. Tut, tut, you never stopped to help! The Martin was great in the 70s. Jam packed, great atmosphere."

Fantastic! I remember circa '74 you couln't get a seat after about 8:30 and one of John Mawdesley's favourite songs of the time "Your Song" (the Billy Paul version) became almost everybodys favourite and was never off the jukebox! Happy days.

Originally Posted by Capt Pugwash

Indeed, have they found a perminant landlord yet?

I thought Gorgeous George was the landlord?

(His father in law used to run the VERY popular Liver Pub in Waterloo!)

Are John and Diane still running the Leigh Arms?

Originally Posted by marilyn

I thought Gorgeous George was the landlord?

Nah, he got sacked cus he was runing it up the wall.

Did you know the MAG still meet there every tuesday?

I spent a lot of my teenage years there in the 70's it was the place to be. Does anyone remember all the underwear hanging from the ceiling! Ha Ha I do!

One of the cars in the ditch was probably my Father in law, I know he's done that before. Couldn't get it back out and had to walk all the way back to his part of Scarisbrick over the fields!!

Originally Posted by marilyn

I thought Gorgeous George was the landlord?

(His father in law used to run the VERY popular Liver Pub in Waterloo!)

Are John and Diane still running the Leigh Arms?

MAZ..... Get over to Southport Past woman! The Swan has reared its head again..... or should that be 'flapped its wings'?

Originally Posted by pedoja

Should that be Drummersdale Lane?

Nope - it should be Martin Lane. The pub is on the corner of Martin Lane and Merscar Lane. Drummersdale Lane is at the other end (Olverson's Farm is on the corner).

Martin Lane used to run from the original Lordsgate Lane (before it was dug up when the airfield was built) down past the Martin pub and Harold Neil's farm - now Freshpac (Gibbons family), down to the railway where it joins White House Lane which comes out back at Bescar Lane.

I remember a guy called Lee Finn drove into the ditch with his fiat Sports car, it looked extremely comical He left it there and returned the next day, couldn't remember a thing about it until his mate reminded him