Red Bills was a public house in the Medlock Valley at Daisy Nook. Formerly the Medlock Tavern its name was changed to cash in on the growing tourist trade generated from the writings of Ben Brierley.

In Brierley’s book ‘a day out’ or ‘a summer ramble’ there was a public house which carried the name Red Bills.

When Oldham Artist Charles Potter travelled to Daisy Nook to illustrate the book he went into the Medlock Tavern and spoke to the landlord Nat Spencer. Potter said to Spencer ‘now I want you to be Red Bill’, on hearing this the landlords wife asked ‘will it sell any ale?’, with the assurance that it would the she told Potter ‘in that case you can call it the what the devil you like’.

With that Spencer had a sign board made bearing the name Red Bills.

The dance floor, or dance board referred to was made from planks of timber and was as much part of the Daisy Nook tradition as the Easter Fair.

The building, which was built around 1618, was used as a farm within recent memory but is now simply a house and remains of dance floor are long gone.