The Malt Shovels, Cheadle, Cheshire
A post-war estate-style pub, still open on StreetView. With plenty of housing nearby and not a particularly run-down area surely there is some potential for this site.
(My own picture)
The Navigation
A large white-painted canalside pub on the eastern edge of the town. Pictured on a damp, miserable day, this one looks particularly sad and forlorn and seems to sum up the plight of pubs in Britain today. It has since been renovated to provide a very smart-looking private house.
The Waggoners
A pub on a remote rural crossroads that was severely damaged by fire in 2008 and, despite restoration plans, remains derelict today.
The Fossway
Pubs may be thriving in York’s tourist-choked city centre, but that has not stopped this substantial inter-wars pub in the north-eastern suburbs near the Nestlé factory from being closed and “tinned up”.
The Jester
Originally called the Earl Grey, this inter-wars pub was designed for the Carlisle State Management Scheme by architect Harry Redfern in an Art Deco style rather than his usual Arts and Crafts idiom. It is now, as the StreetView image shows, a Taekwon-do school.
The Wanted Inn
A white-painted pub on a sharp corner in the Peak District. Robinson’s signage now removed but not actually boarded up as such. It was originally called the Duke of Devonshire but gained its later name after it was up for sale by the Devonshire estate for two years in the 1950s until someone made a bid for it.
Apparently it has been bought by new owners who plan to reopen it as an agricultural supplies store with small attached bar.
(My own picture)
The Soho Tavern
A small street-corner pub in an area of light industrial units to the north-west of the city centre.
The White Horse
An imposing three-storey inn on one of Penrith’s several irregular market squares that still looks quite thriving on the StreetView image from 2009.
(My own picture)
The Rose & Woodbine
An unusually-named pub with an ornate frontage dating from 1898 situated just outside the Inner Ring Road.
The Foxcote
A small country pub, originally called the Railway. It was then renamed the Foxcote Manor when the licensees acquired the nameplates of the GWR Manor class locomotive of that name, and then just the Foxcote. StreetView shows it still trading as a pub in 2009, proclaiming “Seafood is our Speciality”. It is now a weekends-only tearoom and antiques centre.
(My own picture)
The King’s Head
A stone-built main road pub on the south-west side of the city with a distinctive bow-windowed frontage. Note the chap walking along with his jacket slung over his shoulder.
The Greenwood
A massive inter-wars corner pub in suburban North-West London, close to RAF Northolt.
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