A white-painted street-corner pub in this small non-touristy Suffolk town close to Sizewell nuclear power station. Plans have been approved to turn it into an 11-bed House of Multiple Occupation.
Recording the slow, sad death of the British pub
A white-painted street-corner pub in this small non-touristy Suffolk town close to Sizewell nuclear power station. Plans have been approved to turn it into an 11-bed House of Multiple Occupation.
A back-street pub tucked away in an area of mostly modern housing, which had been about the last pub standing in an area where they were once numerous. It was reputedly the model for the Grapes in the TV series Early Doors.
A four-square roadside pub in the western suburbs of Leeds that is now used as a furniture shop.
A large, rambling pub in a spectacular clifftop location overlooking the English Channel between Folkestone and Dover. It has now been put up for auction with a view to either being converted to flats or completely demolished.
A large modern estate-style pub with a rather troubled history, located on the southern fringes of the city. It closed in 2014 and was demolished in 2022, and proposals to build housing on the site have now been approved.
A white-painted Thwaites pub with a very large car park on the rural western fringe of Preston. The road it stands on appears to have been cut off by the new A582 link. It was demolished in October 2022, to be replaced by a a garage, coffee shop and Greggs.
A corner pub in two differing architectural styles situated on the north side of the town. Note the characteristic M&B lantern on the left-hand side. Due to the risk of the building collapsing, it is now to be demolished and replaced by flats.
An imposing pub in the angle of two roads in the Harehills district on the north side of the city. It closed in 2004 and has served for many years as an ethnic supermarket. It had a colourful history that even merits its own Wikipedia page. Its patrons were reportedly the inspiration for Chumbawamba's song “Tubthumping.”
A small pub, once tied to Boddingtons and noted for karaoke evenings, located opposite Stockport bus garage. It was once rather injudiciously said of it in a CAMRA pub guide “popular with bus drivers, hopefully after their shift.” It is now going to the demolished for redevelopment.
A pink-and-white painted pub close to the village centre, now very overgrown, but still showing the imprint of Bass signage. Planning permission has now been granted to convert it for residential use.
An unprepossessing modern pub that never reopened after lockdown, and is now used as a place of worship.
A modern pub on the main road between Stockport and Marple, which abruptly closed in the Autumn of 2023. It was originally built by Wilson’s, but later passed to Greene King. It had a spell as a “fun pub” called Drakes.
(My own picture)