I don't know it too well, but I remember on one occasion stopping at a John or Samuel Smith's pub near there in 1976/77. Around 20 hairy arsed building "students" stopped there for a pre-arranged breakfast at 0900hr's and the pumps were open
Two hours later we emerged pissed
and laughed/messed our way through the rest of the day at the pipeworks. I can't remember if it was that occasion or the drunken trip to the newly opened NEC that resulted in the Building College banning all outside excursions