Phil Wooly of the West Cumbria branch surveyed this privately owned hotel bar in late October 2024 The above old photo shows how the pub is unchanged.

It was built about 1590 as a miner's cottage and has been converted and extended over the years.

Beers on sale were Wainwright Gold and Mowdy Pale, but it didn't go unnoticed by our roving reporter that price per pint was an eyewatering £6