Cerberus Blade
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I feel sure The Travellers and The Miners are still open (well not at the moment) and there is also the Fox and Hounds at Marsh Lane. There was another pub in Apperknowle called (I think) the Yellow Tiger and on the road between Nether Handley and Marsh Lane there was another pub on the left hand side, but for the life of me I can 't remember the name. I think the Gate Inn is still open but it is well off the beaten track and can't think how it gets any trade. I came across it years ago in one of our regular Saturday night jaunts into Derbyshire when there was an extra half hour drinking from the closing times in Sheffield. Old Harow to the Phoenix at Ridgeway was a favourite.
Yep Travellers and Miners still open. The other pub in Apperknowle was the Yellow Lion. The Landlord there reminded me a bit of Orson Welles and he had a huge white organ (musical kind) in the pub. The Yellow Lion is now a private residence. That left just the Barrack - which was still open a few years ago but I'm not sure if that survived. There used to be another pub called "The Poplar" on the tiny back road between Hundall and Old Whittington - that turned into a private residence some years ago now.
The Old Harrow to Phoenix run was legion back in the day due to the extra half hour drinking time in Derbyshire. In the 1960's and early 70's, there wasn't a social conscience like there is today about drink-driving. It was sort of "acceptable" to have a few pints (not to get blinding drunk) and drive. There was a steady flow of traffic, one-way, between Gleadless and Ridgeway around 10.30 pm most nights.
The Derbyshire border is just past the Old Harrow, on White Lane, going towards Ridgeway. I nearly came badly unstuck there one winter's night. I was driving home, to Eckington, along that road. It was a cold winters night but there was no snow about and the roads in Sheffield had been fine. Then, as I go past the Old Harrow, I hit the accelerator as the country road opens up and next minute I've lost control of it and am in the hedge bottom on the other side of the road. Sheffield roads had been gritted, Derbyshire roads hadn't - and I'd hit a patch of ice and left the road completely. The car was down a ditch with one back wheel up in the air. I managed to get out unscathed and was grateful to a chap walking back towards the Old Harrow, (he'd probably been to the Phoenix) who came over to help me. Essentially he sat on the back wing of the car so the tyre would come into contact with the road - I managed to reverse out of it and get home safely. Needless to say, I took it steady all the way back after that!