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.
Recording the slow, sad death of the British pub
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.
A modern pub on the dual-carriageway Wakefield Road on the south-east side of the city. It was demolished in 2020, but nothing has yet been built on the site.
A modern estate-style pub in a rather out-of-the-way location on the west side of the town close to the M6 and the Sneyd Nature Reserve. It was damaged by fire in January 2022 and has since been demolished.
A street-corner pub in East London in an area of mixed older housing and modern development. It has been converted to residential use, gaining a discreet extra storey in the process, but retains its pub signage.
A tall, narrow pub in a characteristic Midlands style, situated on the south-western side of the town, that appears to be in the process of being converted to residential use.