After a century... final call at the Sextant bar

Hazel and her team have been the subject of many of the compliments. She has been involved in The Sextant for close to a decade and has continued many of its proud traditions. Not least of these is supporting the pub’s long-running Don team, so synonymous with the bar that they are immortalised on its walls.

By the time he stepped out from behind the bar in 2004 he could see a drop off in city centre trade and believes the tightening of the rules around drink driving has brought more challenges to publicans. But he said the city pubs, despite a healthy rivalry, stuck together to make it work and he believes the new generation of publicans are showing similar innovation.


Although Dan, Frank, Mick and Hazel all mourn the closing of the bar, they are also philosophical about the change. Hazel and her staff intend to bring the same atmosphere, and hopefully much of the clientele, to her new premises and Mick and the team will continue to participate in the Don League.