I was at its opening night about 2000. I really liked it. Haven't been in it for ages but it did seem to go downhill when they subdivided it into pub/gastropub around ten years or more ago.
I shan't miss it. Whenever I have to leave a pub because the music is ear-splittingly loud (as was the case with the Old Dairy a year ago), it stays firmly on my shit-list until it either burns down (for which I usually hope) or has a change of management (which is the next best thing.)
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Or stick a brewery in half of it with the coppers on show.