A large new dining pub built in the late 80s by Banks’s on the A50/A56 junction to the east of Warrington. Obviously it didn’t live up to expectations, and it is now planned to redevelop the site as a care home.
The Beer Exchange
A white-painted pub in the shadow of a tower block on the north side of the city, originally called the Marquis of Lorne. Now converted to flats and completely unrecognisable.
The Mayflower
A flat-roofed post-war pub in the angle of two roads on the eatern side of the city. Local residents are reported to be sick of looking at the ‘derelict and depressing’ sight.
The New Roscoe
A distinctive modern pub alongside a wide dual carriageway on the north side of the city. It presumably suffered from the lack of direct road access. It isn’t clear whether the building that has since replaced it following the same general profile is actually an entirely new constructoin or simply a recladding.
The Packet House
An early Victorian redbrick corner pub giving a very poor impression of the southern approach to the town centre at Bridge Foot.
The Sir Robert
A 1960s estate-style pub with a weatherboarded facade on a main road on the south-west side of the town. Plans have been approved to turn it into a Heron Foods store.
The Ball Inn
An old stone-built pub in an elevated position on the south side of the city, surrounded by more modern council housing. It is now planned to convert the building into apartments.
The Alpine Gasthof
An unusual pub on the north side of the town built by Samuel Smith’s in the style of a Bavarian inn, which was also reflected in the interior fittings. It was originally called the Alpine Ayingerbräu Gasthof, reflecting the German brewery whose beers they brewed under licence. The area it stands in has experienced a change in ethnic mix in recent decades which will have reduced the local demand for pubgoing.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)