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Fears for pub game as 1925 firm skittled
Daily Mirror UK
|October 29, 2025
ONE of Britain's last independent skittle makers has warned the pub game may vanish, as he prepares to shut his century-old shop.
John Pepper, 78, has spent a lifetime handcrafting the wooden pins.
But the land housing his workshop in Hardwick, Northants, is due to be sold in January.
This story is from the October 29, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror UK.
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