An estate pub on the west side of the town opened by Tolly Cobbold of Ipswich in 1963. It retained its original interior and was named as one of England’s Ten Best Post-War Pubs. However, despite efforts to save it, it has now been demolished and housing built on the site.
A pub with a distinctive tiled frontage and arched windows, located just over the Salford boundary from Manchester city centre, and now used as a massage parlour and nail salon.
A pub at the westernmost extent of the borough of Solihull in the south Birmingham suburbs, which most recently traded under the Sizzling Pubs brand. It has recently been declared an “eyesore”and trashed by vandals. There are plans to build a £9 million care home on the site.
A roadside pub in a remote location on the A701 road between Moffat and Broughton, which was refitted with an Art Deco-style interior in the 1930s. It has been closed since 2006, but has been acquired by a community group. This has not yet succeeded in reopening the pub, although a café has been established in a former disused outbuilding. Given Scotland’s draconian drink-driving law, the future prospects for a pub in such a spot do not look good.
An unusual tall, narrow, free-standing pub on the Attercliffe Road on the north-east of the city. StreetView shows that it was demolished between November 2020 and October 2022
A large modern shopfront-style pub in the centre of this south Cheshire town that has more of the feeling of an overgrown village. It has something of the look of a Wetherspoon’s, but never actually was one.
A large inter-wars mock-Tudor pub in a former mining village close to the Yorkshire border, which was demolished during the course of 2009. The banner says “Business Opportunity Available Now”, but it was never taken up.
A Grade II listed pub in West London, slightly cut off by a modern roundabout, which closed in 2015. Over 250 tons of fly-tipped rubbish had to be removed from the site.
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.
