The Golden Lion

The Golden Lion, Eccles, Lancashire

A former Boddingtons pub right behind Holts’ impressive Royal Oak, now in a very sad state and looking as though it has been closed for a number of years.

The Woodcroft

The Woodcroft, Wavertree, Liverpool

An attractive cream-washed pub with inter-wars detailing opposite Aldi and ASDA in Liverpool’s inner-city wastelands.

The Queens

The Queens, Nottingham

A monumental former Shipstone’s pub right opposite Nottingham Station that is now a fireplace showroom.

The Ash Hotel

The Ash Hotel, Heaton Norris, Lancs

An impressive redbrick Edwardian pub that was reported as having a smoke-in on its last night of trading. My picture again – it still shows as open on StreetView.

This pub has now re-opened as "The Ash Tea Rooms" - an apparently unlikely venture in this location!

The Oban Inn

The Oban Inn, Oban, Argyllshire

A pub in a prime spot by the harbour, well-known to tourists for many years. Surely this one can’t be permanently unviable.

The Beaufort Arms

The Beaufort Arms, Wootton Bassett, Wilts

A cottage-style pub, possibly 1930s from the look of it, near the long-closed station of a town that has been much in the news recently.

The Setter Dog

The Setter Dog, Walker Barn, Cheshire

Once the “other pub” on the famous Cat & Fiddle road, this former Marston’s tied house has been closed for a number of years now. It had a characterful interior with a number of small, cosy rooms.

The Old Fighting Cocks

The Old Fighting Cocks, Oakengates, Shropshire

A terraced pub in the shabby High Street of a small industrial town now engulfed by Telford New Town.

The Citizen

The Citizen, Rochdale, Lancs

A three-storey pub silhouetted against the sunset in a run-down part of the town, just down the road from the Navigation. Take a step forward on StreetView and, miraculously, it’s open again.

The Old Castle

The Old Castle, Abersychan, Monmouthshire

A white-painted pub in the backwaters of the South Wales mining valleys. And no, that isn’t smoke rising from the chimney. If you move forward in StreetView you will see that many windows are broken.