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 on 2023. It was originally built by Wilson’s, but later passed to Greene King. It had a spell as a “fun pub” called Drakes.
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A modern pub on the main street of this northern suburb of Stourbridge, that was converted to Vets4Pets in 2015. Despite its new function it still clearly has the look of a pub. Older StreetView images show it with a Marston’s sign, so presumably it was originally Banks’s.
A white-painted pub with an unusual name on a back road on the south-west side of Oldham. There are now plans to demolish it and build a convenience store on the site.
A pebble-dashed street-corner pub in a run-down area on the east side of the city, which has since been demolished. Apparently behind its unprepossessing facade it had an unspoilt Victorian interior.
An imposing redbrick pub on the main A6 north of Stockport town centre, still bearing lettering for Hardy’s Crown Brewery, who were eventually taken over by Bass. It was later the home of the Fool Hardy micro-brewery, and it is reported thatit is now going to be converted into a drive-thru branch of the Harry Ramsden’s fish and chip shop chain.
A laege modern estate pub, built by Ansell’s in the early 1960s and originally called the Staffordshire Yeoman. It closed in 2013 and the site is now occupied by housing.
