The beer might be more pricey but the face behind the bar is the same - 29 years after the opening night at a Bradford pub.

Rose Cartwright was among the fresh-faced staff welcoming customers when the Red Ginn in Bowling Old Lane, West Bowling, opened its doors in 1969.

And now she's back to run the pub -to the surprise of long-standing regulars. Mrs Cartwright, 55, who has worked in the pub trade for 35 years, said: "I'm really chuffed to back and running the place.

"I've worked in quite a few pubs in the area so I knew most of the customers when we started.

"There's even one bloke who remembers me when I was first here."

Mrs Cartwright became licensee with her husband Barry last month.

The Red Ginn was one of three Tetley houses launched on the same night alongside the Bell Dean in Allerton and the Bay Horse Inn in Dudley Hill.

"It did a bomb when it opened. The place was a bit of a novelty," said Rose.

"Beer was a lot cheaper and we sold a lot more of it.

"More people now drink lager and bottled beer. It was a simpler way of life back then."

She said the pub had been redecorated several times since 1969 and the games room had moved from the back to the front of the building.

But despite a larger range of crisps and a fallen interest in pork scratchings, she said the Red Ginn was still a regular's pub.

Mrs Cartwright, who runs the pub with son Darren Banks and daughter Michelle Banks, had been in charge at the Admiral Nelson in Manchester Road before taking the Red Ginn.

Before that she and her husband had spent five years running The Chellow in Howarth Road.

During her pub career she has worked in a total of six pubs around Bradford including The Parkside, The Old Lane, and Lister's Arms in West Bowling.

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