A ‘community-spirited’ pub is set to reopen in Blackrod next month under the management of a family-run brewery. The former Heroes of Blackrod, on Manchester Road, has been taken over by husband and wife Ben and Nikki Haydock, who will be reopening the pub as ‘Ben’s at the Legion’ later this month – a nod to the venue’s former life as the Blackrod Royal British Legion Club, which closed its doors in August 2012. Speaking to the Bolton News, Ben said the pub would include a plaque of remembrance for the war dead.
Now, the brewery – which already has a micropub in Chorley – plans to extend the opening hours of the Blackrod pub to offer breakfasts and pub lunches, alongside catering for the late night crowd. The Manchester Road pub has been known as Heroes since 2013 Sign up to our newsletters to get the latest stories sent straight to your inbox. Ben said: “We’re going to be a sports bar , we’re going to have real ales on, craft beer – we’re going to be serving breakfast, pub lunches, I could go on all day.
“It’s a new model for pubs, really; pubs are struggling, and we’ve got this building, we’re going to squeeze as much potential out of the building as we can. “We’re going to be opening at eight in the morning, offering breakfast, offering home deliveries, hopefully getting workers in having their breakfast, offering barista coffee, and then we’re going to be doing pub lunches. “We’re going to be showing all the sports, and we’v.