A Bridlington hotel and pub is set to welcome one of the all-time heroes of world darts, ‘Old Stoneface’ himself, John Lowe, MBE, who will be the main draw of a new season of darts and pool at The Brunswick Hotel which has recently unveiled a refurbished sports bar as part of a full refurbishment.
Fourteen customers will have the chance of a game against John Lowe, with names drawn out of a hat on the night of Thursday, October 12th as part of a free-to-attend event open to the general public.
This popular Bridlington pub/hotel has so far renovated one of the main bars of the pub, with new furniture, decoration and lighting, and an original upstairs dining room now converted into the fully dedicated sports bar. Plans are also in place to renovate the hotel’s ten bedrooms and en-suite facilities.
Its upstairs sports bar, which can be accessed from the inside bars and via a side entrance on Bridge Street, has four professional-standard darts boards and two high quality pool tables in a room that has undergone several weeks’ decoration, also including new wall paneling, new lighting and flooring.
Landlord of The Brunswick Hotel, Bev Wynn – who runs the pub in conjunction with Harrison Leisure – said: “We are so excited and honoured to have John Lowe here with us to launch our new sports bar and season of pub sports. From now on, we expect to have busy nights of casual, league and team darts and pool.”
Front of house manager, Bob Palmer, said: “John Lowe will be forever famous in the darts world as being the first player to score a nine-dart 501 finish on TV back in 1984 and is a three-times world champion across three decades.
“We expect this to be very popular, and act as a benchmark for where we want The Brunswick Hotel to be with fun, entertaining and memorable sports and leisure events.”
Pitting their darts skills against the three times world champion, there will be two sessions of 7 matches for 14 lucky customers, with the two sessions split by an informal talk and question and answer session with Old Stoneface.
The Brunswick Hotel will be used as a venue for various darts and pool related events throughout the year, including the inaugural Harrison Leisure Open Darts Competition on Saturday, October 14th. This is also open to the public, costs £5 to enter.
The Amateur Darts Competition league will be using The Brunswick Hotel as a venue on Wednesday evenings between mid-September and April, bringing a high quality darts competition with prize money for between 16 and 24 individual darts players, with local and East Yorkshire darts players, plus players from as far afield as York and Middlesborough.
Michael Harrison, owner of Harrison Leisure, speaking about the investment and motivation behind the renovations of The Brunswick Hotel, said: “We really want to grow the business here in Bridlington as we can’t just let the negative impact of austerity, Covid, Brexit, inflation and energy price rises takeover and prevent us from investing in our futures, the futures of our businesses, the people here and the communities we live in.
”Not investing, not adapting, is only a recipe for disaster and decline, where rising bills, electricity, gas, food and wage inflation prevent us from going about our lives and businesses.
“That’s why we are investing, for a better future for us all, for The Brunswick Hotel, for its regular and new customers, for the local people of Bridlington and East Yorkshire as well as for our visitors.
“We want The Brunswick Hotel to be a destination, a nice place for people to come and share good times.
“Pubs are closing or threatened with closure – or being pulled down – left right and centre. We are trying to do the opposite, we are investing and looking to the future, which, hopefully, is a bright one.”
