A small white-painted street-corner pub in a typical Black Country area of mixed residential and industrial development.
The White Lion
A former Davenports pub with a clock tower, just outside the city centre, that later became Scarlets nightclub. The StreetView image shows it covered in scaffolding.
The Angel
Just round the corner from the White Swan, this Brewer’s Tudor pub shown on StreetView in 2008 has now become Bolsover Antiques. Bolsover seems to have suffered particularly badly from pub closures, with three recently lost on or just off the central square, although the former premises of “The Keep Sports Bar” almost next door have now become Wetherspoon’s Pillar of Rock.
The Queen’s Head
A second closed pub in this village facing the green opposite the Rose & Crown.
The Delamere Forest Inn
A small white-painted roadside pub in a popular tourist spot next to the Forest. It was converted from a private hotel in the 70s or 80s, but never seems to have prospered as a pub.
The King Edward
An impressive triangular corner pub boasting its own clock tower, situated right next to the Aston Expressway.
The Farmers Arms
A large roadside pub, still in Greenall’s livery, in an area that has seen large numbers of new houses built recently, so lack of potential customers cannot be used as an excuse for its closure. Between the 2011 StreetView image and my current picture it had a brief incarnation under an Italian pizzeria brand. Fairly close to the now-demolished Railway.
(My own picture)
The New Inn
A rambling old redbrick pub a short distance up the road from the Foresters Arms, with an extensive garden that looks as though it may once have been a bowling green.
The Jolly Hatters
A four-square redbrick former Hydes pub on the Stockport road just south of the town-centre crossroads at Crown Point. Since the StreetView image was taken, it appears to have been revived in some form but is currently listed as closed again.
The Freebodies Tavern
A modern estate-style pub in a mixed area south of the town centre that now looks very sorry for itself.
The Wheel
A four-square, cream-painted pub on the main street of this attractive village south-west of Derby near the Toyota plant. On the StreetView image from 2009 it is displaying banners saying “Under New Management” and “Finest Cask Ales and Lagers”, but now is sadly de-signed and with peeling paintwork.
The White Swan
An attractive double-gabled stone-built pub in the centre of this small former mining town noted for its magnificent 17th century castle.
(My own picture)
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