Sandra Peat has spent 32 years behind the bar at The Yellow Rose in Middlesbrough.
Now 67, the great-grandmother has decided it’s time to retire and enjoy propping up the other side of the bar with a Malibu and lemonade.
Sandra, who lives around the corner from the Linthorpe pub which is on the corner of Chipchase Road and Roman Road, started at the venue in 1982.
She has seen five changes in landlords/landladies and, as current landlady Kay Metcalf says “She is part of the fixtures and fittings”.
“There are some men who come in here and say they only want Sandra to serve as she serves a ‘proper pint’,” said Kay, who has been landlady for the past three years.
“She is lovely.”
Sandra, who has never wanted to work anywhere else, has decided now is the time to retire and take it easy.
“I’m going to enjoy myself,” said Sandra, who has three grown-up children, David, Michael and Samantha, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
“I’ll still come in though, just prop up the other side of the bar instead.
“First thing I’m going to do is go on holiday. A few of us are going to Benidorm.
“And then my daughter and I are going to Gibraltar. I used to live out there 50 years ago so I want to see what it’s like now.”
Born in Kent, Sandra moved to Teesside when she met her late ex-husband, who was from Middlesbrough.
“He was in the Royal Navy so we were in Gibraltar for a bit,” she said.
Sandra said she will miss Kay and the members of staff and the customers too.
“One customer came to see me specially for my last day with a box of chocolates,” she said.“I have a customer who always calls me Mum, he’s got his wife calling me it now too.”
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