Whilst the Finny has a healthy amount of history from years gone by, we’re managing to create some more modern history of our own, namely the fire of 2017…
11th December 2017, after a perfectly normal morning things started to unravel. A devastating fire had taken hold in the roof. 16.05, the feeling that something was wrong – 16.07 the feeling that something was very very wrong – 16.08 the fire brigade were called. There started a night that many try to forget. The fire had taken hold in a devastating way. 7 fire engines and 6 hours later the fire was out. Amazingly and so very luckily nobody was hurt (including Tribute the dog) but nobody could know the shear scale of the damage until the next morning. It was bad. The amazing Firefighters had done everything they could but it was obvious the effects were worse than thought.
Fast forward to November 2019 – The Finny rose from the ashes.
In a wonderfully British way, The Finny is familiar with just the odd change (think Great British Bake off when it moved to Channel 4).
The main changes are hidden. Erika will still be leading the chaos out the front, Neil will still be heading up the kitchen, many original members of staff have returned and the pub and restaurant is undeniably and stoically still The Finny. We just now know what all the light switches do.
So we’ve had fire – we got flooded when the roof was off, now we’ve had pestilence, – what could possibly be next?!