A redbrick pub in a rather faded little North-East seaside resort.
The Queen Victoria
A redbrick pub in a rather faded little North-East seaside resort.
The Star
This pub in an elevated location on the A62 east of Oldham, as it climbs over a spur of land to reach Saddleworth, has not just been boarded up, but bricked up.
The Cheshire Cheese
A mock half-timbered pub on Oldham Road looking forlorn amongst the modern high-rise buildings of the city centre.
The Swan with Two Necks
From the look of it, a rare example of a modest 1930s-built pub, in a back street location in North Leeds.
The George & Dragon
An impressive-looking pub with a distinctive gallows-type sign. Appears to be in the throes of being converted to something else.
The White Lion
Although it looks long closed, this pub featured in The Best Pubs in North Wales, a CAMRA book by Mike Dunn published in 1989, which described it as “virtually unchanged for decades”.
The Old Cock
Another impressive, turreted pub which you might have thought was well situated on the busy A56 close to Stretford town centre.
The Blackwater Inn
Not boarded up, but doesn’t look very open. In a very isolated situation on the main road from Blairgowrie to the Spital of Glenshee.
The Cherry Tree
A mock half-timbered roadhouse alongside the main A41 dual carriageway south of Whitchurch. Closed for some years, it is now in a very sorry state. It was previously called the “Witch Ball”, but was renamed in more anodyne fashion.
The Bleeding Wolf
A handsome Edwardian building that, in this prosperous stockbroker belt town, was felt to be worth more as flats than as a pub. In the past was famed for its bowling green, which was often used to stage tournaments, although in the pub’s last years it was turned into a children’s play area.
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