A white-painted pub on a sharp corner in the Peak District. Robinson’s signage now removed but not actually boarded up as such. It was originally called the Duke of Devonshire but gained its later name after it was up for sale by the Devonshire estate for two years in the 1950s until someone made a bid for it.
Apparently it has been bought by new owners who plan to reopen it as an agricultural supplies store with small attached bar.
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A small street-corner pub in an area of light industrial units to the north-west of the city centre.
An imposing three-storey inn on one of Penrith’s several irregular market squares that still looks quite thriving on the StreetView image from 2009.
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An unusually-named pub with an ornate frontage dating from 1898 situated just outside the Inner Ring Road.
A small country pub, originally called the Railway. It was then renamed the Foxcote Manor when the licensees acquired the nameplates of the GWR Manor class locomotive of that name, and then just the Foxcote. StreetView shows it still trading as a pub in 2009, proclaiming “Seafood is our Speciality”. It is now a weekends-only tearoom and antiques centre.
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A stone-built main road pub on the south-west side of the city with a distinctive bow-windowed frontage. Note the chap walking along with his jacket slung over his shoulder.
A massive inter-wars corner pub in suburban North-West London, close to RAF Northolt.
A four-square street-corner pub to the south-west of the town centre, still bearing Higson’s livery.
An impressive inter-wars pub just off the main A34 road south of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Note the Bass sign at the top right. Its erstwhile bowling green makes the site more attractive for residential redevelopment.
A brightly-painted street corner pub in the heart of Birmingham’s “Balti Triangle”
A four-square redbrick pub at one end of the town’s pedestrianised shopping street. Yet another victim of Robinson’s recent cull of their poorer-performing pubs.
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A characteristic Harry Redfern-designed State Management Scheme inter-wars pub on a peripheral estate. Now demolished. See here for a news report about its closure.
A distinctively named pub on the fringes of Telford New Town that appears to have been left isolated by road realignments. Featured in this article about closed Shropshire pubs.
A four-square, gabled redbrick pub near to Cinderford’s long closed railway station.
A stone-built roadside pub in the countryside between Halifax and Brighouse, now in a very sorry condition.
A large modern pub on the main A57 between Denton and Hyde, built in the more optimistic times of the late 1980s, which ended up as an Indian restaurant but is now closed and “tinned up”.
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A distinctive triangular mock half-timbered pub near to Winson Green prison that bizarrely seems to have ended up in the hands of erstwhile Salisbury brewers Gibbs Mew.
A roadside pub on a long road of terraced housing to the east of the town, now looking rather sorry for itself, but shown as open by StreetView in 2009.
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A sizeable pub in a rather off-the-beaten-track Warwickshire village close to the M42 that has fallen by the wayside despite acquiring a trendy modern paint job and lettering. Its prospects can’t have been helped by the presence of the more traditional-looking Hatters Arms next door.
A four-square Georgian coaching inn in a village straddling the English-Welsh border.
A small street-corner pub near the naval dockyard, in a very dilapidated condition. The sign on the wall says “Acquired for Development”.
A J. W. Lees pub stranded amongst a sea of car park on the west side of the town centre, viewed from a car park access ramp.
A modern pub set back from the road – the fourth to be included in this run-down area to the east of St Helens.
A characteristically Scottish four-square, white-painted pub opposite the harbour in this North-East fishing port.
A stone-built pub at a road junction on the western side of this Forest of Dean town.
A gabled pub set back from the road on a street corner in the eastern part of the city, just down the road from the King.
An impressive manorial-style suburban pub in Cotswold stone, opened in 1934 and now converted to a nursing home.
A redbrick roadside pub in the countryside just south of Winsford in the rural heart of Cheshire. The banner saying “Indian Cuisine coming soon” is there on the StreetView image dating from 2009, which shows the pub before being boarded up, but having lost its inn sign.
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A solid-looking pub in a village on the main road between Daventry and Northampton, built out of the distinctive reddish local ironstone.
A former Marston’s pub in the back streets of Newton Heath standing at a rather odd angle to the road, originally called the Newton House.
A plain 1950s pub hidden away in the kind of run-down council estate you often find kept well out of sight in Southern England.
An imposing Edwardian pub with a pair of mock half-timbered gables, that looks as though it once enjoyed a strong Rugby League following.
A massive estate pub on an extensive site by a roundabout, probably 1950s by the look of the surrounding housing. A sign of the times - and possibly part of the reason for its decline - is that it is to be converted into an Islamic centre.
A white-painted street-corner pub in a run-down suburb of St Helens, now looking very sorry for itself.
An imposing three-storey pub in a Bristol suburb close to the River Avon. There is a campaign to save it here.
A pub in a rather tucked-away location near the Dudley Canal that featured a bar made from the bow of a narrow boat. Shown in the process of conversion to flats – there are several pictures of it as a pub on Pubs Then and Now.
An old pub given a more contemporary cladding, now hidden away in a maze of modern housing developments.
A boxy-looking pub with a possibly unique name, standing on a crossroads just north of the town in the Forest of Dean. Since the StreetView image was taken it has been demolished and replaced with new-build apartments.
One of three quayside pubs in a spectacular location underneath the two bridges over the Tamar, which in the past has obviously received investment in the form of the bow-windowed extension. In the StreetView image from 2009 the vegetation is much less overgrown. If you turn round on StreetView you will spot that the nearby Union Inn is painted with a giant Union Flag on the front.
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Another typical free-standing post-war pub situated rather off the beaten track in an estate on the west side of the town.
A small Georgian pub with an unusual name situated just outside the Inner Ring Road. Pointed out on Facebook by Boak and Bailey.
A sizeable pub bearing Boddingtons’ livery in the apex of a road junction in a run-down area to the east of St Helens.
A modern corner pub in the middle of a large housing estate with no nearby competition which, perhaps surprisingly, ended up being acquired by Oxfordshire pub company (and former brewery) Brakspear's.
A 1930s roadhouse-style pub which I believe replaced an older pub in the village centre a few hundred yards to the south. Once a notably plush and successful food-oriented pub. The road it stands on used to serve as an informal bypass of Tarporley but lost its importance once the proper bypass was opened in the late 1980s. It is still open on the StreetView image taken in 2009.
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A long, low, white-painted pub alongside the main road towards Bury, which has not been saved by a makeover including “trendy” lettering.
Another modern estate-style pub in an area dominated by tower blocks on the southern fringes of the city near King’s Norton. Take one step back and it’s open again.
A typical modest inter-wars Brewer’s Tudor pub, still bearing Greenall’s livery, in an area to the east of St Helens that has seen extensive housing redevelopment. Note the chap walking his two black dogs in the foreground of the picture. One of a number of closed pubs in Parr referred to in this post by Merseyside Pub Guide.
A modern estate-style pub opposite the Church, formerly tied to Greenalls. StreetView shows the site in the process of redevelopment as flats. Acknowledgements to Pubs of Manchester for the photo.
A substantial pub tucked away behind the Guildhall, that since the StreetView image has actually been brought back to life as the Guildhall Tavern. Situated very close to the still-closed Crown.
