SUMMER JOB NEVER ENDED FOR MAN FOR ALL SEASONS EDD

Pub manager Edd Clarke is pictured receiving his long-service award from Wetherspoon’s area manager, Sarah Leather.  

Edd, who has been the pub manager at Castle in the Air (Manchester) for the past 14 years, started his career in his home town of Gainsborough.  

Edd recalled: “I worked as a bar associate at The Sweyn Forkbeard (Gainsborough) before going to university, but it was after my uni management course, when I took a summer job back at the same pub, that my career with the company really took off.”  

Edd subsequently moved from Gainsborough to Manchester, where he had studied, to live permanently, transferring to The Bishop Blaize (Stretford).  

It was during his almost five years at that Manchester pub that Edd progressed from bar associate to shift-manager level.  

He spent further spells at The Seven Stars, The Mardi Gras and Wetherspoons, all in and around Manchester’s city centre, before taking on his first pub as manager in 2012, at Castle in the Air. 

 Edd said: “When I left university, my original plan was to work in HR and it wasn’t my intention to stay with Wetherspoon for very long.  

“But I was enjoying the job, which I had discovered almost by mistake.  

“I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, have stayed this long if it weren’t something I enjoyed.”