An attractive white-painted roadside pub situated on the A44 between Worcester and Bromyard. An application has been made to convert it into a private house.
The Brighton Hotel
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.
The Hourglass
An archetypal post-war estate pub on the west side of the town, that has suffered several fires and is now described as blighting the lives of local residents. Permission has now been granted to demolish it, and there are plans to built retirement bungalows on the side.
The Royal Oak
An attractive tile-hung pub in a wooded area to the north-west of the town. There are now plans to demolish it and build houses on the site.
The Nag’s Head
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.
The Wheatsheaf
A stone-built pub on the south-west side of the city on the opposite corner of a crossroads from the Southfield Hotel, although the Fire Brigade immediately across the road is still trading.
The Southfield Hotel
A solid-looking stone-built corner pub on the south-west side of the city.
The Old Trooper
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.
The Market Tavern
A stone-built pub at the bottom of a pedestrianised street at the south end of the town centre.
The Railway
A long-closed street-corner pub just outside the town centre close to the site of Middleton’s former railway terminus. It is boarded up in this photo, but now appears to be used as a beauty parlour.
The Newby Square
A modern pub set back from the road on the south side of the city, originally called the New Red Ginn. After a troubled history, its licence was revoked in 2016, and it remains in a derelict condition.
The Dockside Inn
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.
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