29 Market Street, Tamworth, B79 7LR
Albion Road, Marden, TN12 9DT
Riviera Centre, Torquay
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23 Haltwhistle Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5ZA
Unit 11, Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Beddington, CR0 4WP
Argyle Place, Love Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2NZ
116, Foregate Street, Chester, Chester, CH1 2HH
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Worcestershire, BELL, Pensax. We reported in January on the sale of the Bell, which has been shut since October 2022. We are glad to hear that it re-opened on the 17th May. But following the refurbishment, most features of historic interest have been removed and consequently the pub has been removed from the inventory. Thanks to Paul Compton for letting us know about the reopening. |
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Sunderland & South Tyneside, STAGS HEAD, South Shields. This traditional town centre pub dates from 1897 and has an unusual floorplan from that period - having one downstairs and one upstairs bar due to the narrow footprint of the building. Both bars have their original Victorian bar counters and bar backs and the ground floor public bar has an unusual four span arch over the servery. The Stags Head was grade II listed in 2010 following an application by CAMRA. The good news is that the upstairs lounge bar has recently been re-opened for public use and so it has been upgraded to Three Star.
Tyne & Wear, CENTRAL, Gateshead. Also upgraded from Two to Three Star is the Central, Gateshead. Built in 1854 it became a hotel around 1890 and this is the likely date for its star attraction - the Buffet Bar, which is now fully open to the public. The Buffet Bar has a U-shaped bar counter with a front of segmental arches and a wonderfully ornate bar-back, as well as many other features from the period.
South Yorkshire, BATH HOTEL, Sheffield. Congratulations to owners Brian and Ruth Johnson and to all at the Bath Hotel for being awarded Sheffield & District CAMRA’s Sheffield City Centre Pub of the Year. The Bath Hotel is an unusually complete example of a Sheffield corner public house with layout and fittings dating from 1931. It was listed grade II in 1999 following research by CAMRA. Following a sensitive refurbishment, it was awarded the Pub Conservation Award by English Heritage, the Victorian Society and CAMRA in 2001.
West Midlands, WOODMAN, Birmingham. We reported in October that Simon Linford & John Brierley had taken on the lease and were due to reopen by Easter following some minor refurbishment. We now hear that they are currently interviewing for a manager and that re-opening is due end of August or early September. Thanks to Mark Parkes for this update.
Greater London East, CAULIFLOWER, Ilford. The Cauliflower closed in 2018 following a fire and we reported on the ambitious plans for the pub in the December 2023 bulletin. We now hear that the pub is due to be auctioned on 18th June through Savills with a guide price of £2,900,000. The Cauliflower is a vast 4 storey edifice dating from around 1900 and it is expected that planning permission for a separate building on the car park consisting of 15 flats and further commercial space will also be granted. The pub is being marketed, rather ominously, as ‘the former Cauliflower public house’. See: 
Essex, WHITE HART, Grays. Shut in controversial circumstances in May 2023 the White Hart has been on the market through Savills for £575,000 since January and is now shown as being ‘under offer’. The pub was rebuilt in the 1930s by Charrington’s and has a fine long oak bar back from the period. Thanks again to Paul Ainsworth for this update.
West Midlands, FALCON, Willenhall. Paul also reports on the fate of the Falcon, which we last covered in May 2023 following an arson attack which destroyed the interior. Unsurprisingly approval was granted in January for change of use to a house of multiple occupation.
Oxfordshire, CROOKED BILLET, Stoke Row. Although the Crooked Billet functions primarily as a restaurant it is now possible to buy drinks without a meal. The pub has no bar counter with beer drawn from casks in the cellar, making it one of only eight such traditional pubs left in the UK. The two left hand rooms retain great historic character.
Berkshire, TWO BREWERS, Windsor. Despite claims to be the oldest pub in Windsor and supposedly dating from the 17th Century, it is actually thought to have been built in 1902. The Two Brewers retains a largely intact interior from a refit in the interwar period, consisting of a three-room layout with lobby and off sales hatch with fittings throughout from the 1930s.
Herefordshire, NEW INN, Pembridge. A fine 17th Century half-timbered building of great character facing onto the market square, the New Inn has a three-room layout and a superb long settle in the public bar, which includes an inglenook fireplace and a set of handpumps on the wall suggesting that there was no bar counter until recent times.
Greater London North West, CROWN LONDON HOTEL, Cricklewood. A grand Jacobean style public house built between 1899-1900 by the Canon Brewery of Clerkenwell, the Crown has been upgraded due to the quality of its original features. The lounge in particular has a splendid multi-panelled bar back, old bar counter, carved fireplaces, many bell-pushes and ornamented plaster ceiling.
Greater London North, STARTING GATE, Wood Green. An impressive two storey corner pub which was refitted in 1899. Upgraded due to the considerable amount of late Victorian fittings that remain, in particular the surviving snob screens and glazed partitions.
Greater London North, FLASK, Highgate. The Flask is made up of two buildings. The three-storey section probably dating from the early 18th Century. The old servery is an exceptional and highly unusual piece of pub architecture with its glazed sash windows and aged shelving and panelling. The two rooms either side retain much from an interwar refurbishment.
Greater London East, PRINCE GEORGE, Hackney. New to the inventory, The Prince George is now included at Two Star for its multi-room layout with four surviving rooms. It has an old central counter with panelling and Corinthian columns to the bar back. Wood panelling, fixed seating, an old fireplace, and sash windows survive. There is also a distinctive porch to the side entrance.
South Yorkshire, BIG GUN HOTEL, Sheffield. We reported on the closure of the Big Gun in October 2023 with the apparent intention by the new owner to turn it into a pizza restaurant. Work started in April including the replacement of doors and windows. Planning enforcement were made aware of this and now a planning application has been submitted stating that the site will be used ‘for sale of food and drink mostly on the premises ‘. An objection has been lodged by Dave Pickersgill on behalf of Sheffield & District CAMRA. See: 
Derbyshire, HARE & HOUNDS, Barlow. The Hare & Hounds, which retains a multi-room layout and fittings from the 1950s, closed in March 2020 following the death of the owner, Ron Harris, who had run the pub since 1979. It is now up for sale through Nicholsons & Co of Sheffield. See: 
Merseyside, CROWN INN, Liverpool. The Crown was rebuilt in 1935 to designs by Liverpool architects Medcalf & Medcalf. Whilst the main lounge bar was re-modelled in the 1970s much of the panelling and other features remain, although now painted over. The panelled public bar and snug (which has been sensitively restored) remain virtually intact..jpg)
Greater London North West, OLD EAGLE, Camden Town. A three-storey Victorian corner-site pub with a variety of fittings. The main feature inside is the L-shaped panelled bar counter, quite likely dating from Victorian days. Parts of the back bar fitting seem of similar age with the most distinctive feature being the green and white coving at the top and its now indistinct relief decoration. There are mosaics in the flooring of the two entrances and an unusual eagle motif in the glass roof.
South Yorkshire, FAT CAT, Sheffield. Opened in 1850 and originally called the Kelham Tavern (later the Alma) the Victorian layout of three ground floor rooms here was altered in 1941 by William Stones brewery, amalgamating the small public bar and smoke room into what is now a larger public bar. With only minor alterations since then, the pub made a different kind of history in the 1980s when, under a new name and visionary new owner, the late Dave Wickett, it found fame as one of the UK’s very first Real Ale Freehouses.