Love your local pub feature - Victoria pub Chesterfield
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00:00 (gentle music)
00:02 - Pubs have been a cornerstone
00:09 of our local communities for centuries,
00:11 offering a place for people to meet together and socialize,
00:14 as well as providing thousands of jobs
00:16 and a cornerstone of the local economy.
00:18 Here we go behind the bar to meet the people
00:20 who run our pubs and say,
00:21 well, it's important for you to love your local.
00:24 - We're at the Victoria or Nice Biscay
00:27 for its latest Love Your Local feature.
00:29 If you can tell me a bit about yourself.
00:31 - My name's Lee McMahon,
00:32 I'm the landlord of the Victoria or Nice Biscay.
00:36 I've been here for about seven and a half years.
00:37 - How many staff do you have?
00:39 - We've got four that actually work at the bar,
00:41 and five including myself,
00:43 and we run the day-to-day dealings between the five of us.
00:47 - Can you tell me a bit, what's the most popular drink?
00:50 - At the moment, it's definitely Carlin and John Smith's.
00:52 We're mainly a day trade pub,
00:54 so we get a lot of the older generation coming in
00:56 and they're bitter drinkers.
00:58 - How long have you been in the pub trade?
01:01 - Pub trade itself, about 15 years.
01:03 - Yeah, what other pubs have you been?
01:05 - I've been all over the country.
01:06 I used to work for a holding company,
01:08 so I could be in a pub six months,
01:10 I could be in there a year,
01:11 until someone took on the tenancy,
01:12 and then I moved on to another one.
01:15 And I started with Craft Union,
01:16 where it's like a managed company,
01:19 and you're here for as long as you want to be.
01:21 - What's the best thing about being at the Victoria?
01:24 - I would say the community.
01:26 It's not like a job now,
01:27 it's opening the door to my living room,
01:29 waiting for my mates to come in.
01:31 - That's great.
01:32 Is there any fun parts of running the pub so far?
01:34 - Virtually every day, to be honest with you.
01:35 There's always some form of character in here
01:37 that's entertaining and whatnot.
01:40 - Have you got any future events going off
01:42 or anything you'd like to mention?
01:44 - We are looking to do a charity event
01:45 for the flood victims.
01:47 We want to do it for the kids for Christmas,
01:49 so the parents don't have to worry
01:50 about getting Christmas presents for them.
01:53 They can concentrate on getting their houses sorted out
01:55 after the flood damage.
01:57 - Have you got a date at all?
01:58 - Not as yet, no, unfortunately.
02:01 It's going to be quite hard trying to get it sorted out
02:03 because we're looking to get vouchers from Smiths
02:06 so the parents can take the kids in
02:08 and they can pick what they want.
02:09 We're just trying to get that set up.
02:11 We are looking to do it
02:12 slightly late November, early December.