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With the rocky road out of lockdown now tentatively mapped out by the government, it is essential that we keep up to date with news of re-openings and any closures. So please continue to help us by sending through any updates on your local heritage pubs to: info@pubheritage.camra.org.uk or by updating the entries on WhatPub. |
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Leicestershire, THREE HORSESHOES, Whitwick. The lease for this unspoilt local is available from Admiral Taverns:
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Merseyside, PHILHARMONIC DINING ROOMS, Liverpool. The Grade I Philharmonic Dining Rooms is featuring in a new dramatisation of Len Deighton’s Ipcress File:
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Talking of characterful period backdrops, a new set of Heritage Pubs Virtual Backgrounds for your online meetings is available from CAMRA: CAMRA Virtual Backgrounds , featuring some of Mick Slaughter’s excellent photographs. They provide the perfect setting for any lockdown meeting or get together, and are de rigueur for all serious pub lovers. And thanks to Sophia Robertson at CAMRA for organising this. |
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Kent, BROWN JUG, Broadstairs. Good news that the Brown Jug (Regional Inventory) has been listed grade II by Historic England. The pub has been shut since 2019, when the long serving licensee retired. In a detailed listing entry the reasons given include: ‘the survival and legibility of the multi-room arrangement of the ground-floor interior, which provides a tangible sense of how many rural public houses would have functioned in the C18 and C19’ :
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Derbyshire, QUIET WOMAN, Earl Sterndale. Mark Finney reports that this simple cottage pub (Regional Inventory) closed last year following the death of landlord Ken Mellors. Its future is uncertain.The Discover Derbyshire website describes the possible origins of the pub name: ‘The sign at the village pub, The Quiet Woman, carries the immortal adage “Soft Words Turneth Away Wrath” which is below the picture of a headless woman. The story goes that a former pub landlord’s wife, known as “Chattering Charteris” nagged so much that she even started ranting in her sleep. At last her husband could stand it no more and cut off her head. The approving villagers even had a “whip round” to pay for the headstone.’
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East Sussex, KING’S HEAD, Udimore. Michael Schouten reports that the King’ s Head (Regional Inventory) is up for sale.The pub building dates back to the 16th Century, with much of the surviving interior dating to a major refit in the 1930s. The pub freehold is on the market for £725,000 as the owners have decided to retire – See
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Staffordshire, LEOPARD, Burslem. (Regional Inventory). Further to last month, the Leopard’s ACV application has been successful. Thanks to David Lycett and Annette Cartlidge for keeping us up to date. The hotel has been sold to property developers Daneets Developments. They are intending to re-open the pub, as disclosed in a recent meeting between the owners, the community group and the local MP: Stoke Sentinel |
Two from the Vaults:
VULCAN, Cardiff. (Was Regional Inventory). Following the brick by brick dismantling in 2012, the Vulcan is now being re-built at St Fagan’s National Museum of History in Cardiff. The painstaking work being undertaken even includes the restoration of the brown gents urinals from the 1914 refurbishment: BBC Wales. The exhibit is scheduled to open, with functioning bar, in 2023.
WOLSINGTON HOUSE, North Shields. The Wolsington House, an imposing Edwardian brick built pub, opened in 1902 and finally shut in 2001, is up for sale. The surrounding terraces have long gone, leaving the pub adrift in an empty post-industrial landscape. However, as you can see from the internal pictures, much of the original fabric remains intact. Including the surviving long bar. The pub was visited and assessed by both Dave Gamston and Mick Slaughter in the 1990s, and was earmarked for potential inclusion on the inventory. It now has planning permission to convert to 4 townhouses and is for sale with an asking price of £400,000. See: Right Move. An unlikely scenario, but according to the article the owners would consider the venue re-opening, if the development plan fails to get off the ground. See: Chronicle Live. Thanks to Mark Finney and Chris Excell for sharing the news.
OUTSTANDING CONVERSIONS AND RESTORATIONS. Andy Shaw reports on a new website, which is in the process of being developed, to promote pubs which are Outstanding Conversions or Restorations. These pubs used to be promoted via a PDF document that could be downloaded from a page on the main CAMRA website, but the new website, which is actually based on a copy of the Pub Heritage website, offers far greater opportunities to promote these fine pubs. The website is almost complete, but is currently lacking photographs for most of the entries to illustrate their features. However, we are confident that most entries will have been populated with suitable images in time for the official launch of the website, which will coincide with pubs fully coming out of lockdown.
Volunteers Needed. We are hoping to recruit volunteers to help maintain both the Pub Heritage and the Outstanding Conversions and Restorations (OCR) websites, and specifically to help fill the gaps in entries with photos. No specialist IT experience is required, just a general familiarity with websites, and using data entry forms. Training by online demonstrations will be provided. If anyone is interested, please contact Andy Shaw:andshaw@gmail.com.
Also just a reminder that you can also follow Pub Heritage Group on Facebook and Twitter. One day we will get those link buttons on the newsletter and website….
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