A popular pub in the heart of Swadlincote will be closed for the next few days.

Punters will need to go elsewhere for their pints and burgers as the Sir Nigel Gresley, which sits just off the Delph in Swadlincote town centre, is shut.

A sign on the door of the busy boozer instructs that it is currently closed. A spokesman from national firm Wetherspoons, which owns almost 900 pubs across the country, confirmed the Swadlincote pub would reopen on Friday, June 28.

It is currently closed as they are completing some planned external repairs. The pub is named after famed rail pioneer Sir Nigel Gresley, who was raised in Netherseal.

He was part of the Gresley family, who gave birth to the names Church Gresley and Castle Gresley.



According to the company's website: "This pub is named after the famous railway engineer.

"As a small boy, Gresley lived at Netherseal village, four miles south of Swadlincote, where his father was rector of St Peter's Church."