Amazing. You'd think new management would try to keep their customers in a pub like this, out of the way with very little passing trade, but no.
Military behaviour, perceived rudeness and a generally unpleasant tone have driven out 90% of the customers including the crib team and both darts teams. Now everyone is in the Jolly Butchers or the Wheatsheaf down the road.
I've been told the new management took the place over on a three month lease with an option to buy - well, I can't see them getting finance together on the basis of their current fiscal state, it must be terrible.
The three months are up soon, so with a bit of luck someone, somewhere will see sense and the Old Bell will become a pub again instead of a barracks... or a fuckin' block of flats.