This was a busy community pub which had frequent different events on.The selection of real ales included offerings from many local breweries including Shivering Sands. It had an impressive animal menagerie in the back garden - there aren't many pubs that have that.

Like the nearby Hussar, this pub was rebuilt in 1926 though the original stood 50 yards away in Welsdene Road. The new Rodney was built, as the windows indicate, by Cobbs on the site of an old barn.