An attractive white-painted pub in a semi-rural location on the north side of this Black Country town, commanding views to the north over the surrounding area. It closed in 2021 after a fire, and a planning application for change to retail use has now been submitted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A neat inter-wars mock-Tudor pub, situated south-east of the town on the Blakenall Heath estate, which has been described as Britain’s roughest. It has since been converted into a branch of Heron Foods.
A small, long-closed rural pub now converted to residential use but retaining its nameboard, situated just south of the village of Foxt in deep countryside not far from Alton Towers.
An inter-wars pub with a distinctive corner tower feature, situated on the north side of the city and clearly visible from the main line railway to Stafford and the North. From the historic StreetView images, it appears to have closed between 2012 and 2015, and has since been demolished.
A neat inter-wars pub on the west side of the town centre in the shadow of a couple of tower blocks of flats. It is described by CAMRA’s WhatPub site as having been “one of the few pubs in town to retain a traditional bar and lounge layout”.
A charactecteristic 1980s estate pub at the extreme north end of Stoke-on-Trent. It closed early in 2022 and there are now fears locally that the site will be redeveloped for social housing. “The owner, Stockport-based Robinson's Brewery, said the venue did not fit its current business model.” It is still open on StreetView.
A long, low, white-painted pub set back below the level of the main A52 road between Stoke and Ashbourne, a route that has seen a large number of pub closures. It never reopened after the first lockdown in 2020. It is situated near to the famous Yew Tree with its amazing collection of paraphernalia.
A typical 1960s pub on a large housing estate to the east of Stoke-on-Trent, still retaining its pub signage, but now repurposed as an off-licence and a fish and chip shop.
A substantial pub on the main A52 between Stoke-on-Trent and Ashbourne, a road that has seen a large number of pub closures. A 1980s guide to Real Ale in the Potteries states that it is a former Joule’s house and describes it as “smart and comfortable” and requiring “smart casual” attire.
A three-storey, white-painted pub prominently situated on the city’s main pedestrianised shopping street. More recently used as a restaurant called Feria, it has been boarded up for well over a decade. The local MP has branded it a disgrace and called for action.
An attractive late Victorian or Edwardian mock-Tudor pub in a leafy setting off the main road in the picturesque Churnet Valley. It was only brought into pub use in 1982, but was closed by 2016 when the StreetView image was taken. It was one of several pubs in the area named after locally-born naval hero Sir John Jervis, who was made Earl of St. Vincent.
A large pub on the road between Cheadle and Alton Tower that appears in the past to have had a reputation as a destination venue. It was already closed in 2009 and has since been redeveloped into a row of cottages that appear to utilise the main pub building. This is a rather spooky account from 2009 of exploring the derelict building.
A small roadside pub that for many years was a familiar landmark on the outskirts of the town alongside the main road to Ashbourne. It is to be demolished to make way for five houses.
