No-frills: the pub is basic in its design to cut costs (Picture: Cavendish Press)

A pub that offers pints of beer for just £1.50 has opened in Greater Manchester – and the owner believes it could be the salvation of the British pub.

The Pound Pub in Atherton has a no-frills image which departs from the more traditional British boozer.

Aside from offering half-pints for £1 and whole pints for £1.50 (the average in London is £3.60), the pub does not offer any entertainment or subscribe to Sky Sports.

The decor has a basic feel, exemplified in the pub’s logo, written in EasyJet-style lettering.


The Atherton branch is the second in the new Pound Pub chain, with the first location in Stockton-on-Tees.

£1.50 for a pint: rival pubs complain the low prices lower the tone of the area (Picture: Cavendish Press)

Pub landlord Dave Sutton believes this new model of no-nonsense booze at very low prices could prove the saviour of an industry that is currently suffering.



‘We don’t encourage people to get drunk and there’s been no more trouble. In fact the pub is already going very well and the customers seem to be happy,’ he told the Daily Mail.

‘Pubs around the country are shutting all the time so something has to be done – and this could be it.’

But Mr Sutton admits that the opening of the pub has irritated other pub owners in the area.

‘The other pubs in the town are not so happy but that’s not our fault. That’s just because throughout the day we have the majority of customers in the town in here.’

Rival pub landlady Mary Bates, 44, had a different take.

‘It keeps all the riff raff in one place. Every town should have a pound pub because it attracts all the ne’er-do-wells,’ she said.