Nottingham Post published Couple pump £200,000 into Ilkeston pub - and turn it into a...

So you think the pub trade's dying? Try telling Scott Ryder.He bought a struggling 19th-century former coaching inn three years ago and has turned it into a booming boozer.But it's not come cheap. Mr Ryder, 45, reckons the latest investment in the Three Horseshoes, in Derby Road, Ilkeston, takes the amount he and wife Lisa, 41, have pumped into the business to almost £200,000.Modernising the inside of the premises was the first big step when they took over the 'Shoes over the...