One of many currently closed pubs in the Samuel Smith’s estate, situated just off the A61 on the western edge of the town close to Alfreton Park.
Recording the slow, sad death of the British pub
One of many currently closed pubs in the Samuel Smith’s estate, situated just off the A61 on the western edge of the town close to Alfreton Park.
A large piub on the A64 York Road to the east of the city centre, that once had a boxing gym upstairs. In the mid-2010s it was turned into a supermarket, as shown, but this in its turn did not prove successful, and it was later demolished and redeveloped as flats.
A rural pub situated at Nunney Catch south of Nunney village with its well-known castle. It closed in 2002 after having been left on a dead end following the construction of a new road, and is now in a very derelict state.
A substantial white-painted pub prominently situated right next to M6 Junction 19. In the 2000s, it was expensively converted by Robinson’s Brewery to an upmarket dining format, but obviously this did not prove enough to save it. Still open on StreetView.
(My own recent pictures)
A characteristic post-war estate pub situated on the western side of Widnes. StreetView indicates that it closed at some time between 2008 and 2012, and now appears to have been converted to residential use.
A back-street pub with a nautical name located on Naval Row in the old London docklands, but without any view of the river itself.
A traditional city-centre pub that in its latter years operated as a late-night venue, only opening at 11 pm. It closed in July 2018.
An impressive street-corner pub in the Shirley district on the north-west side of the city, which clearly predates the surrounding housing. It closed in 2011 and has since been converted to residential use.
A once attractive free house in a leafy location in the Fishponds district on the north-east side of the city. Planning permission has been applied for to turn it into student flats.
A former Charles Wells pub overlooking a busy road junction just outside the town centre on the south side of the Great Ouse.
Now a smart-looking residential property deep in the Essex countryside north of Braintree, if you look back to 2009 on StreetView it becomes a pink-washed country pub with extensive car park and beer garden.
A street-corner pub with a characteristic London layout of projecting ground floor, still bearin Truman’s livery. It closed in October 2019 and has since become heavily graffitied. Since then it has been the subject of multiple unsuccessful planning applications for refurbishment and conversion of the upper floors to flats.