Closed Pubs

Recording the slow, sad death of the British pub

The Puffing Billy

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The Puffing Billy, Smethwick, Staffordshire A post-war estate-style pub in a back street location close to the Birmingham border. Its lice...

The Skinners Arms

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The Skinners Arms, Leeds, Yorkshire A substantial Jacobean-style pub alongside a widened main road on the north side of the city, next to ...
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The Downsman

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The Downsman, Hove, Sussex A cottage-style inter-wars pub with a steeply-pitched roof and dormer windows, in an estate on the north side o...

The Wagon & Horses

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The Wagon & Horses, Oldham, Lancashire A mock-Tudor pub on the edge of the town heading out on the main road towards Ripponden and Ha...

The Allan Fold

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The Allan Fold, King Cross, Yorkshire A substantial stone-built pub to the south-west of Halifax commanding a view over the Calder Valley....

The Battle Inn

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The Battle Inn, Reading, Berkshire A white-painted street-corner pub on the western side of the town that has gone through various incarna...
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The Black Greyhound

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The Black Greyhound, Wincham, Cheshire A large inter-wars roadhouse on a crossroads to the east of Northwich, that once had a reputation f...

The Tramways Hotel

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The Tramways Hotel, Sheffield, Yorkshire A distinctive street-corner pub on the south side of the city centre close to Bramall Lane footba...
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The Angel

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The Angel, Bewdley, Worcestershire A Brewers’ Tudor pub close to the bridge over the Severn, now converted to a Tesco Express. Surely ther...

The Crown

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The Crown, Leeds, Yorkshire A large inter-wars pub with a tiled frontage on a corner site in the shadow of some tall blocks of flats, just...

The Izaak Walton

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The Izaak Walton, Cresswell, Stafforshire A country pub to the south-east of Stoke-on-Trent, once a Burtonwood tied house also serving Dra...

The Castle Inn

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The Castle Inn, Highley, Shropshire A roadside pub, now in a very poor state of repair, in this large former mining village on the western...
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