Pubs: Then & Now

The Pub is one of the few great cultural icons of Britain. We are currently in a phase where the future of the pub is in doubt. This blog shows how pubs have changed (or not) over the past 20 - 30 years. I first started taking pictures of pubs in 1986 and have amassed quite a collection. Most of these pubs are within easy walking distance of the English Canals and most are based in the Midlands. Apart from a (very) few, I have drunk in every pub pictured (and sometimes been drunk in them!)

Wednesday, 27 January 2021

#034 Billy's Bar, Digbeth, Birmingham : 1998 to 2021 (RIP)

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 Continuing onwards with the depressing pub closures in Digbeth over the past 23 years we come to Billy's which had already closed and ...
Monday, 25 January 2021

#032 Eagle & Tun, Digbeth, Birmingham : 1998 to 2021 (RIP)

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  This will be my third and final report on the fate of the Eagle & Tun pub. This is from my 2016 write up: - "When I first took a ...
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Friday, 22 January 2021

#023 O'Neills, Curzon Street, Birmingham : 1998 to 2021 (RIP)

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  This is another pub that was demolished long before my 2011 revisit, but this shows the final resting place of O'Neills (previously t...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

#011 Pall Mall, Cheapside, Birmingham : 1998 to 2021 (RIP)

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I know what you're thinking - no entries for over a month and then three come along in quick succession - what is going on? Well, with l...
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Sunday, 17 January 2021

#054 The Fountain, Cheapside, Birmingham : 1998 to 2021 (RIP)

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 During the first lockdown in 2020 I brought you fine bright pictures of Stirchley, Selly Oak and Harborne. For this new, winter lockdown I...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2021

#283 Boat Inn, Birdingbury Wharf, Warwickshire : 1998 to 2020

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In these dark days of a winter lockdown it is hard to remain optimistic and upbeat about pubs in the knowledge/expectation that many will no...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

#282 The Hampstall Inn, Astley Burf, Stourport-on-Severn : 1997 to 2020

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This will only be a short entry for a pub that I've visited only once.  The mighty River Severn is not a waterway that we visit too ofte...
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