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Site of The Dandy Roll, 2015	Picture source: Colin Price
The Dandy Roll was situated at Gateway House, Bread Street. This pub opened in 1956 in Gateway House, headquarters of the Wiggins Teape group. A Dandy Roll is a piece of machinery used in paper manufacturing. It was demolished in 1999.
I have very fond memories of working at The Dandy Roll, Bread Street, in the City, during 1971. I was on a working holiday. The owners were married couple...I think he was an ex policeman.....a lovely couple. Other memories are of a beaten copper bar which we used to polish regularly and I remember working with Aggie. Jukebox and great food downstairs. It was my one and only experience of working in a pub and I loved it. I was very sad to see that it has been demolished. I was hoping to revisit one day.
Kaye Farcich (November 2016)
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Name	Dates	Comments
Brian Bishop	1971/1978	Used the pub almost every lunch hr. when Iworked for BT at Queen Victoria St it was run by a couple who lived in Brighton his name was Alan, the used to close at 2000 hrs so they could get home, met a lot of interesting people there particularythe girls who shall remain nameles, great pub shame its no longer with us
John H	1969/1971	Whilst working at Legal & General in Queen Victoria Street use to go their after work with 3 work colleagues to play bridge (and miss rush hour). Always given a meal by landlord. Used to have a machine where you won a fortune(?) in tokens by lining up 3 ducks.