A former Boddingtons pub right behind Holts’ impressive Royal Oak, now in a very sad state and looking as though it has been closed for a number of years.
The Golden Lion
A former Boddingtons pub right behind Holts’ impressive Royal Oak, now in a very sad state and looking as though it has been closed for a number of years.
The Woodcroft
An attractive cream-washed pub with inter-wars detailing opposite Aldi and ASDA in Liverpool’s inner-city wastelands.
The Queens
A monumental former Shipstone’s pub right opposite Nottingham Station that is now a fireplace showroom.
The Ash Hotel
An impressive redbrick Edwardian pub that was reported as having a smoke-in on its last night of trading. My picture again – it still shows as open on StreetView.
This pub has now re-opened as "The Ash Tea Rooms" - an apparently unlikely venture in this location!
The Oban Inn
A pub in a prime spot by the harbour, well-known to tourists for many years. Surely this one can’t be permanently unviable.
The Royal Oak
A compact Brewer’s Tudor pub in the fork of two roads on a 1930s housing estate.
The Beaufort Arms
A cottage-style pub, possibly 1930s from the look of it, near the long-closed station of a town that has been much in the news recently.
The Setter Dog
Once the “other pub” on the famous Cat & Fiddle road, this former Marston’s tied house has been closed for a number of years now. It had a characterful interior with a number of small, cosy rooms.
The Old Fighting Cocks
A terraced pub in the shabby High Street of a small industrial town now engulfed by Telford New Town.
The Citizen
A three-storey pub silhouetted against the sunset in a run-down part of the town, just down the road from the Navigation. Take a step forward on StreetView and, miraculously, it’s open again.
The Old Castle
A white-painted pub in the backwaters of the South Wales mining valleys. And no, that isn’t smoke rising from the chimney. If you move forward in StreetView you will see that many windows are broken.
The Waggon & Horses
A modern pub on the Cannock Road near to Molineux football ground.
The Butcher’s Arms
A long-closed pub on a bypassed road in a remote part of the Fens. Despite its semi-derelict condition, it appears to be occupied.
Jack Stamps
A pub occupying part of a shopping parade in a busy South London high street. The pub next door – Taylors – is still trading.
The Mountblairy Arms
A small single-storey pub at a remote roadside location in North-East Scotland. The sign says “High Road Pub & Steakhouse”.
The Hunters Lodge
An attractive pub with a large car park on the bypassed old main road through the town.
The Seagull
A modern pub near the shore in a bleak coal-mining area.
The White Hart
An attractive, white-painted, weatherboarded pub mouldering away in a village near Harwich now bypassed by the A120.
The Dock
A still fairly smart-looking 1930s pub in Birkenhead’s semi-derelict docklands.
The Globe
A small former Marston’s pub tucked away on a narrow country lane in the shadow of Mow Cop.
The Kings Arms
A compact moderne-style 1930s pub in a suburban area, now skulking behind a tall fence.
The Horse & Groom
A long-closed pub alongside the A505 west of Royston, which has over the years been developed into a fast, busy dual carriageway where passing trade might be reluctant to stop.
The Railway Bell
An unassuming post-war pub on the main Dover Road out of the town.
The Highwayman
Yet another Thwaites pub, this one in an isolated location on the fringes of the Peak District on the road between Macclesfield and Whaley Bridge. In times past it was a true classic, with a warren of small, low-ceilinged, thick-walled rooms warmed by real fires. This is my recent photo – on StreetView it still shows as invitingly open.