The new owners at the Westlegate pub in Westlegate. Simon Carpenter and his wife Claire. Picture: Denise Bradley

Former Norwich pub reopens

David Bale Sunday, March 3, 2013
6:35 PM

A city centre pub has reopened and will soon be known under its old name – after it failed to attract a fan base as a bar/bistro.

The Westlegate, in All Saints Green near the John Lewis store, has reopened and it will soon be renamed the Pig and Whistle.

Simon Carpenter, a former manager at Riley’s snooker club in Magdalen Street, Norwich, has taken it on as leaseholder and his brother Adam, wife Claire and mother Sue are also helping out.

To attract customers, the pub, which is owned by Enterprise Inns, is offering people working in the surrounding area 15pc off food and drinks, if they can prove who their employers are.

Mr Carpenter said: “The previous people ran it from 8am to 8pm. But we think that trying to get people in for breakfast is a bad idea, so we will be open from 11am to 11pm weekdays and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

“Downstairs will be a more rustic pub-cum-restaurant while, upstairs, the former Mustard Lounge nightclub will be a sports lounge with pool and darts and a function room.”

Older readers might remember the venue as Imagine or Chandlers, but it enjoyed its biggest success as the Pig and Whistle.

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Mad Brewer

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The new "owners" of this pub are in fact leaseholders, the real owners apparently being that philanthropic organisation, Enterprise Inns. Give it 6 months? Steward & Patteson, affectionately known as "S&P" which is what it made you do! Preferred Morgans myself.

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Mad Brewer

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Yes Wayne, fingers ahead of brain, a good Brew that was taken over and came back as P**s water.

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Rorping

Monday, March 4, 2013
I think you must mean Steward & Patteson.

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Sheila Blige

Monday, March 4, 2013
Much older readers may remember it as The Tuns an old Stewart and patteson pub

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Rorping

Sunday, March 3, 2013
The previous names were Westlegate, Imagine, Chandlers, Wig and Pistle, Pig and Whistle and Three Tuns.

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Pink Duck

Sunday, March 3, 2013
Am I disremembering it, or did it have a spell as "Wig and Pistle" or something similar?

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Muggas Budal

Sunday, March 3, 2013
Yes it was the Pig & Whistle in my day (I'm 46.) I never went there though.

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Halloway

Sunday, March 3, 2013
"Older readers might remember the venue as Imagine or Chandlers". I'm only 37 & i remember it as The Pig & Whistle!! I must be at deaths door according to the Evening News!! What is deemed to be old nowadays? I need a reality check! lol

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

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