The talk of the tavern!

MINE host . . . Sarah Tetlow raises a pint as the new landlady at the Tandle Hill Tavern

Regulars at the Tandle Hill Tavern just over the Rochdale border in Royton know their new landlady well . . . so well many remember when she was born!

For former Cardinal Langley Sixth form student Sarah Tetlow is only 20-years-old.

Ms Tetlow has been landlady at the JW Lees pub in Tandle Old Road for the past four weeks.

Her family live in neighbouring Cinder Hill Farm, making her a familiar face to many supping a pint.

She said: “My family are well-known round here, I’ve grown up on the farm and I’ve worked shifts in here as a barmaid from when I was 18, so the regulars all know me.

“They are surprised I’m so young, some have even told me that they remember when I was born!

“Being a landlady is different to being a barmaid as you have to know about ordering stock and the financial side of running a pub.

“But I’m really enjoying it.”

A former carer for the elderly in Bury, Sarah had handed in her notice just before she found out the pub was up for grabs.

Having completed a course for her personal licence, she has signed a three-year contract as landlady and has plans to introduce a beer garden.

Her family are helping her settle in, with the pub’s milk coming from the family’s dairy and Sarah’s sisters helping out in the kitchen.

Not even the ghost of Jane Tetlow, wife of the first licensee Henry Tetlow, a distant relation, can scare her off.

She said: “When the pub is empty you are meant to hear darts being thrown against the dart board and someone walking about, but that doesn’t scare me.”