I AM SHOCKED by your article (October 30) about the Rainbow Inn in Allesley.

My grandfather, Oliver Tatlow, became the licensee in 1911. When he died in 1931 my grandmother, Mrs Kate Tatlow, became the landlady and was the licensee for 45 years.

My parents, Jack and Gladys Tatlow, ran the pub with her and my father was also a well known sportsman.

I was brought up there and had a very happy childhood.

The history of this little pub goes back 1680.

It is just dreadful to think the doors are closed.

When my family lived there, Mitchells & Butlers was the brewery, then Atkinsons.

How sad.

Gill Dawkins,