A four-square pub that appears to have had a new brick facade added early in the last century. Note the signs inviting you to “Run This Pub”.
The Swan
A four-square pub that appears to have had a new brick facade added early in the last century. Note the signs inviting you to “Run This Pub”.
The Traveller’s Rest
A handsome brick-built former Greenalls pub with sandstone mullions in a leafy spot at one of the town’s highest points. Its secluded location means there isn’t a direct view on StreetView, so the link is to the aerial view, which shows several cars on the car park.
The Honiton Inn
An attractive gabled pub standing amongst modern office blocks just to the west of the city centre.
The Rainsough Brew
Formerly the Staff of Life, a modern estate-style pub whose name is a pun on that of the steep hill on which it stands.
The Colliers Arms
A small roadside former Thwaites pub, just down the road from the Turf Hotel. The StreetView images seem to have been taken in fog.
The Brooklands
Although not boarded up, this pub seems to be being used as the office for a building site.
The Bridge
A typical small Black Country pub next to a canal bridge, still open on StreetView.
The Castle Inn
A solid mock-Tudor inn shown on StreetView as offering bed and breakfast, on a bypassed section of the old Manchester Road south-west of the town centre.
The Crawford Hotel
An impressive, neo-classical pub-cum-hotel on the southern fringes of the city, still open on StreetView.
The Grapes
A small, landlocked street-corner pub in a pedestrianised shopping area. Note how, compared with the StreetView image, the lettering has been removed from the gable end. Photos taken on 14 February 2012, three days after the pub closed – Robinson’s didn’t mess about with removing their signage.
The Turf Hotel
An oddly squashed-looking three-storey former Thwaites pub, still open on StreetView.
The Apollo
A modern estate pub in the shadow of a block of flats. Still looks just about open on StreetView.
The Orange Tree
A small pub in Newport’s run-down dockland area of Pill, shown on StreetView as replaced with modern housing.
The Hamlet
A large pub close to the Abbey Hey Hotel in an off-the-beaten-track area of East Manchester. A banner still hanging on the wall says “Lots more choice!”
The Garibaldi
A small back-street pub to the west of the city centre. Not yet boarded up on StreetView, although the For Sale signs have appeared.
The Corporation
An impressive street-corner pub on the east side of the River Usk. The StreetView image shows it converted to flats.
The George
A typical small local pub in an area of terraced housing. This is another one that miraculously reopens as you move forward on StreetView.
The Abbey Hey Hotel
A long-closed former Bass pub off the beaten track in East Manchester, now in an advanced state of dereliction.
The Plough & Anchor
A typical main-road pub with a large car park, no doubt largely given over to dining in recent years. I am told this one has reopened since the StreetView image was taken.
The Mersey Arms
Another defunct pub in Birkenhead’s run-down docklands. Move forward a little and it magically sprouts some bushes.
Kings
A modern pub, originally a Greenalls house called the Kingfisher, which has gone through a number of unsuccessful “trendy bar” incarnations. Still open on StreetView – the photo was taken earlier this week.
The Ducie Arms
A former Whitbread pub in a run-down area of inner-city Manchester that has experienced a change in its ethnic makeup.
The Weavers
This is actually a modern pub in the centre of Cheadle village, converted from former shop premises. After a fairly short life it is now apparently to become a Turkish restaurant. It is believed that Wetherspoons took a look at it but decided it was too small for their format.
The Black Lion
A former Boddington’s pub on Hillgate with an ornate late Victorian or Edwardian exterior. Note the stone lion carving on the side wall.
The Old House at Home
A 1930s Holts pub tucked away in an obscure location close to the River Irwell.
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