Hopes sports makeover will give Littlehampton pub a new lease of life

A Littlehampton pub is being given a makeover by its new management.

Sussex Inns has taken over The Dolphin pub in Littlehampton High Street and turned it into a sports bar to replicate The Station Pub in Bognor Regis.

Anthony Scott, 27, is one of two general managers of The Dolphin Sports Bar. He said: “The pub opened the day before Good Friday and we got the keys about 11 days before that.

“We decided to take over this pub because of the opportunity it gave us. Sussex Inns have about 14 pubs across Sussex and I was approached by the area manager alongside my other general manager to make The Dolphin a similar place to The Station Pub in Bognor with that being a sports bar.

“The pub is a work in progress. We got the big televisions up, and before that we had people coming in saying it looks better, cleaner and that there’s more light in the place.”

The Dolphin re-opened as The Dolphin Sports Bar on April 14. Anthony said: “We absolutely exceeded expectations over that weekend, I think the excitement of this place being open again really excited the community.