A substantial white-painted pub prominently situated right next to M6 Junction 19. In the 2000s, it was expensively converted by Robinson’s Brewery to an upmarket dining format, but obviously this did not prove enough to save it. Still open on StreetView.
(My own recent pictures)
A rare image where all that remains is the pub sign on a vacant lot. A post-war estate pub on the west side of the town, built in 1953 on the bombed out site of the former Avenue Cinema by Birkenhead Brewery, as shown in the historic photo below.
Later passing into the hands of Whitbread, it had a brief spell as the Open Arms in the early 2010s. It finally closed in May 2015 and was demolishedin May 2017 for residential development, which does not yet appear to have taken place.
A four-square redbrick Victorian pub on the main road through the village. Originally tied to Greenalls, it later passed into the hands of Robinson’s, but has now become a Co-op convenience store.
A redbrick country pub on a minor road not too far from the River Weaver. It had closed by 2019 and has now been converted to residential use.
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.
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.
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)
An extremely derelict pub on the north side of the Birkenhead docks, more recently known as the Blazing Stump. There are now somewhat unlikely-sounding plans to demolish the building and build a food hall on the site.
A functional modern estate pub in the Castlefields area of Runcorn New Town, not boarded up as such, but clearly showing signs of neglect.
A large Victorian pub in a prosperous suburban area, advertised as being “To Let” but very much tinned up. It is reported that planning permission has been applied for by Pesto Restaurants to take it over.
(my own photo)
A prominent inter-wars pub in Thwaites livery at the south end of the Neston built-up area on the road to Ness Gardens.
(My own photo)
A distinctive inter-wars mock-Tudor corner pub about half a mile inland from the Mersey estuary. StreetView shows it as still open in 2020, so it is a relatively recent casualty.
A much-extended Marston’s dining pub prominently situated on the main road between Altrincham and Stockport. Given the number of surrounding houses you would think it had potential as a pub, but on the other hand the large site must be attractive to developers.
A monumental stone-built street-corner pub in the Gothic style with a corner turret, situated on the Wirral on the main road between Birkenhead and New Brighton.
What was once a straightforward roadside pub became progressively isolated by various road improvements, and was eventually dealt the coup de grâce by the A556 upgrade in the mid-2010s. In its last years it had a brief incarnation as the Cheshire Lounge. There are some photos of the derelict interior in this article.
A large inter-wars roadhouse on the main A41 to the south-east of the city, which has most recently traded as a Harvester, but is now in the process of conversion to a Costa Coffee drive-thru.
A small backstreet pub in the apex of two roads close to Weston Point Docks, which has recently been auctioned off with the suggestion that it would be suitable for alternative use. Despite having been brought up in Runcorn, I was never aware that this pub even existed, possibly because it never sold real ale in recent years and so did not appear in any CAMRA guides.
A neat single-storey post-war estate pub on the north side of the city. The right-hand half has since been converted into a Heron Foods store, but it is hoped to reopen the remaining section as a pub.
A modern estate pub on the south-east side of the town, close to the Cheshire Oaks outlet village, named after locally-born footballer Joe Mercer. It closed in 2010, but there were attempts to convert it for residential use, which have now been abandoned, leading to plans for its demolition.
A characteristic Sixties or Seventies estate pub on the western side of Ellesmere Port, with the distinctive angled window design popular around that time. A planning application has been submitted to demolish it and replace it with a Co-op convenience store. It was originally called the Marquis, which from the reference in the news report was presumably what it continued to be called locally.
