An inter-wars pub in the shadow of the Oval cricket ground that appears to have been built at the same time as the surrounding council housing. Nobody can claim there’s a shortage of potential customers here.
The Craven Arms
A familiar landmark on the main A49 road between Shrewsbury and Hereford, that gave its name to a railway junction and the small town that grew up around it. It has been closed for over three years, and plans have been submitted to convert the entire building to apartments.
The Village Bells
An attractive white-painted pub in the fork of two roads in a village located across the estuary of the Test from Southampton. It closed for the last time in 2015.
The Papermakers Arms
An inter-wars cottage-style pub in a village south of Dartford near the A2/M25 interchange. It closed in 2022, and a planning application has been submitted for a luxury car showroom on the site, which makes a change from yet more flats.
The Lad in the Lane
A distinctive half-timbered pub situated on the Outer Ring Road on the north-eastern side of the city. It claimed to be one of the oldest pubs in Birmingham, although obviously much extended and altered over the years. It closed in 2022 and was seriously damaged by fire earlier this month (November 2024).
The Bull’s Head
A street-corner pub in an area of car dealerships and industrial premises, which was in very poor condition by the time the StreetView image was taken in 2011. It had been demolished by 2015, and a much larger residential block has now been built on the site.
The Castle
A large and rather severe-looking inter-wars pub on an extensive corner site on the north-east side of the city. It closed in 2011 and is now a Tesco Express.
The Mason’s Arms
A small, long-closed back-street pub situated near the impressive church of St Mary Magdalene and next to the rear exit of Taunton’s massive Wetherspoon’s, the Perkin Warbeck.
(My own picture)
The Crown
A handsome three-storeyed redbrick pub on the approach to Nuneaton station. It is one of a pair of closed pubs with the Railway Tavern, which will be featured in a later post.
The Duke of Bridgewater
A three-storey Georgian redbrick pub situated close to a bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal. It has been closed for over a decade and was damaged by fire earlier this year.
The Stag
A four-storey pub situated in a narrow side street just off the town’s pedestrianised High Street. The StreetView car couldn’t actually get up the street – it is just visible on the right in the StreetView image.
(My own picture)
The Boatyard
A pub located on a narrow street on the north-east side of the city close to the Menai Strait and the pier.
The Bull’s Eye
This was the first new Watney’s pub to be built in Southampton after the Second World War. It has now become a Tesco Express.
The White Horse
A distinctive brown-and-white pub in the angle of two roads on the north side of the town. After lying empty for fifteen years, there are now plans to convert it into flats. Across the road is an imposing stone-built pub called the Cock.
The Falcon
A characteristic Victorian pub with a protruding lower storey, situated in the angle of two roads in West London.
The Dearne Hotel
A large, rather plain brick-built inter-wars estate pub in a former coal-mining area. It has since been demolished and replaced by flats.
The Stoneham Arms
A large inter-wars mock-Tudor pub on the main A27 on the north side of the city. It has now become a Co-op convenience store.
The Far Lees
A characteristic post-war estate-style pub on the south side of the city. It closed around 2008 and the building is now used as a convenience store.
The Manvers Arms
An attractive white-painted pub with a central bowed frontage situated in a village on the south side of the Trent east of Nottingham. It has been closed since 2019, but there are hopes to reopen it later in 2024.
The George and Dragon
A redbrick former Greene King pub on the main A4 Bath Road to the west of the town, where plans for a drive-thru Greggs have met with local opposition.
The Palomino
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.
The Crown
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.
The Prince of Wales
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.
The Crook Inn
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.
The Travellers Inn
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
The Bank Corner
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.
The Langold Hotel
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.
The White Hart
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.
The Crown
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.
The Grapes
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.
The Thornhill Arms
A four-square roadside pub in the western suburbs of Leeds that is now used as a furniture shop.
The Lighthouse
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.
The Rookery Tavern
A large modern estate-style pub with a rather troubled history, located on the southern fringes of the city. It closed in 2014 and was demolished in 2022, and proposals to build housing on the site have now been approved.
The Saddle Inn
A white-painted Thwaites pub with a very large car park on the rural western fringe of Preston. The road it stands on appears to have been cut off by the new A582 link. It was demolished in October 2022, to be replaced by a a garage, coffee shop and Greggs.
The Waggon & Horses
A corner pub in two differing architectural styles situated on the north side of the town. Note the characteristic M&B lantern on the left-hand side. Due to the risk of the building collapsing, it is now to be demolished and replaced by flats.
The Fforde Grene
An imposing pub in the angle of two roads in the Harehills district on the north side of the city. It closed in 2004 and has served for many years as an ethnic supermarket. It had a colourful history that even merits its own Wikipedia page. Its patrons were reportedly the inspiration for Chumbawamba's song “Tubthumping.”
The Comfortable Gill
A small pub, once tied to Boddingtons and noted for karaoke evenings, located opposite Stockport bus garage. It was once rather injudiciously said of it in a CAMRA pub guide “popular with bus drivers, hopefully after their shift.” It is now going to the demolished for redevelopment.
The Nelson
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.
The Horse & Farrier
An unprepossessing modern pub that never reopened after lockdown, and is now used as a place of worship.
The Golden Hind
A modern pub on the main road between Stockport and Marple, which abruptly closed in the Autumn of 2023. It was originally built by Wilson’s, but later passed to Greene King. It had a spell as a “fun pub” called Drakes.
(My own picture)
The Royal Oak
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.
The Owd Tatts
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.
The Red House
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.
The Hope
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.
The Westway
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.
The Gallopers
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.
The Sneyd
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.
The Windmill
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.
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