The Highfield Inn Oldham

24/06/2026

This Saturday for The next ENGLAND match......
Come join us to support the lads and your local pubs...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

23/06/2026

Good morning its already a hot one...🌞
We are open from 4pm today.

Beer Garden open with more seating and our new outside tv and speakers to enjoy the games on..⚽️⚽️⚽️

We have Portugal vs Uzbekistan 6pm

Then its ENGLAND vs Ghana 9pm 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Showing on our big screen, outside and throughout....

Also Voodoo Chile will be open today from 6pm till 9pm with a £10 special which includes a nice cold beer...(cash only)

We have budweisers and Peroni bottles on offer as well when England play...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Come support The lads and support your local 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

22/06/2026

⭐️⭐️This Sunday.....⭐️⭐️

We have the return of the fabulous JOEY MATHEW'S
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Lets have a 80s kind of Highfield Sunday.
Bring your dancing shoes....👠👞👟

Plus Happy Hour 5 till 7pm with 50p off all draft pints 🍺

And dont forget to come and try VOODOO CHILE amazing food...🦀🥘🦞

22/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿This Tuesday its Englands next game🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We have a few offers going on this Tuesday......

Voodoo Chile specials see below which include a drink..🦀🥘🦞

We also have specials on Budweiser and Peroni bottles.....grab yourself these as only available whilst stock lasts.

Come support England whilst supporting your local pubs.....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

21/06/2026

Jeremy Clarkson's pub is fully booked every single day.
It is losing money anyway.

£8,486 down in its first four months. Fully booked every single day.

This is not a sympathy story. Nobody needs to feel sorry for a multi-millionaire with a television deal. What it is, is the single clearest piece of evidence the trade has had all year that the problem is not the landlord. It is the structure.
Look at what is actually eating the money.

400 pint glasses stolen every week. Cooking oil, lightbulbs, and urinal traps walking out the door. A generator costing £100 a day because the electricity supply cannot keep up — with a permanent grid upgrade quoted at £200,000. £47,000 a month on parking attendants alone.
That is one pub. Fully booked. Backed by a television budget and a national media platform most landlords could not dream of. Still losing money.

So here is the question worth sitting with.
If money, fame, and a camera crew cannot make this maths work, what exactly is anyone suggesting the average independent landlord is doing wrong? The problem was never effort. It was never even talent. It is the structure every single pub in this country is forced to trade inside of.

Here is the maths nobody puts on a graphic.
You are the one waking up early to take the delivery. You are the one still scrubbing the lines at midnight, counting the till, locking up alone. You take all the risk. Your name is on the lease.
And when the money finally comes in, you are last in the queue to get paid.

The taxman takes a slice before you have even opened the doors. The energy company charges whatever it likes to keep your cellar cold and your lights on. The brewery and the pubco keep nudging the price of a barrel up until the margin on a pint is barely worth ringing through the till. Theft, breakages, and a hundred costs nobody warns you about quietly eat what is left.
By the time everyone else has taken their cut, there is next to nothing left for the person who actually did the work.

It feels like running a charity for the taxman, the energy companies, and the pubcos — while you survive on whatever is left over.

That feeling is not paranoia. It is the maths. And it is exactly the same maths whether you are pulling pints in a sixteenth century coaching inn in the Cotswolds with a camera crew outside, or in a backstreet local with two staff and a casual on weekends.


What is the hidden cost driving you mad this month?
Beer duty. The electric bill. A supplier who keeps creeping the price up by pennies until it is pounds. The till roll of small charges that add up to a number you do not want to look at on a Sunday night.
Tell us below. Vent. You are not the only one doing the maths at midnight and not liking the answer.

Follow The Public House Institute. And if you want a place where operators talk about this honestly — join The Pub Trade. Free. Private. No judgement.

21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day.....

Why not bring your dad to the pub...

We have The Brilliant Johnny Harper From 5.30pm.

Its Happy Hour with 50p off all draft pints 5pm till 7pm.

We have all your World Cup action.

And why not treat him to our amazing Food from Voodoo Chile.

Happy Sunday

20/06/2026

19/06/2026

Woo it’s FriYAY!!
Open for food 5pm - 10pm today! Pre orders welcome - what’s app 07462983586
Get yourselves into for our very own Captain Jack’s karaoke and the best choons!
You literally don’t need to be anywhere else! 🦞🍔🍺🍷🎤🎵

19/06/2026

Happy Friday....

Its Friday so that means its Disco, Karaoke and much more with our CAPTAIN JACK....☠️

Taking all your requests and its your time to shine belting out your favourite songs....🎤🎤🎶🎶

Plus all your World Cup action on our Tvs throughout.⚽️⚽️

Also never mind Chippy Tea Friday come enjoy Voodoo Chile Friday. You wont be disappointed 🥘🦞🍟

18/06/2026

Open 4pm - 8pm Sunday! Don’t cook that day, get yourselves in the for great food, great drinks and a great singer!
We do accept pre orders! What’s app - 07462983586
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