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HISTORY OF THE DINER
Built in 1951, our diner started its life in massachusetts - named Murphys diner.
It was located at 2525 Massachusetts avenue and was a firm favourite with students studying at matignon high school
it closed its doors in 1968.
It was then moved to haverhill in 1970 where it sat until 1993 when a gentleman named Charles gutzos who moved the diner to peabody.
Charles had plans to restore and reuse the diner
but these plans never came to fruition due to Charles' sudden passing.
It stayed in storage for a further 2 years before being purchased by a buyer in the uk.
It moved to derby in 1995
The diner was placed on a container ship and sailed over to the UK on April 28th 1995. purchased by pendragon, a British Automobile designer who specialised in selling classic 1950s American vehicles.
it underwent a $200,000 restoration and was put into service as The Motown Diner. Unfortunately its time as the Motown diner was short lived and it closed in 1997.
The diner went back into storage until 2004 where its final journey to Church Gresley began.
Bought by Jeff laight & Trish Whitehouse on eBay and relocated to its current location reopening in 2005.
in the last 20 years its had 3 sets of owners.
Its newest owners, Cody & Luke , took on the task of injecting a new lease of life into it in 2003. getting the keys in the March and having it back open by the august.
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