A PUB has sold for £300,000 at an auction - £50,000 above its asking price.
The Spinning Jenny pub in Leigh went under the hammer at an auction held by Acuitus today, Thursday, to an unknown buyer.
The property is split across two floors, with a bar and restaurant and beer garden on the ground floor and accommodation above.
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The establishment on the corner of Spinning Jenny Way and King Street, stands on the site where textile machinery inventor Thomas Highs lived.
In one of the major technological breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution, Highs invented the spinning jenny textile machine in 1764 with the held of Warrington clockmaker John Kay and James Hargreaves.
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