Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Closing time

One of the benefits of Google Street View is that you can pull up an image of pretty much any pub, anywhere in the country. And, sad to say, a depressingly large number of them show up as being closed and boarded. I’ve accumulated something of a collection of these links and thought I would set up another blog called Closed Pubs to which I could progressively add them. Obviously this won’t appeal to those who view the world through rose-tinted beer goggles, but all it is is a record of what can (or could) be seen on the ground. If you have any more suggestions for inclusion, please let me know.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

10/10
Mudgie

I am not top PC man but I have been wating for some site do get
this show on the road,but how do you get 8000+ thumbnails on a an A4
sheet. Four A4s 1000 on each side ,
that would be a nice wad to shove up some denialists sniffer.
I know how to transmit pics to you
but what about others ,how do they get pics to your site
I do hope all the other webbbies
get stuck in with you on this


Boarded up pub spotter

Curmudgeon said...

There's an e-mail link on the blog - all you need to do is send me the name of the pub and the postcode and I can do the rest.

Bear in mind it's not intended exclusively as an anti smoking ban site and will include pictures of pubs (such as the Old Bull's Head at Little Hucklow) that closed before the ban.

Anonymous said...

There already is a site documenting closed pubs.

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/index.html

Curmudgeon said...

Indeed, and I would say my blog complements that rather than conflicting with it.

Dick Puddlecote said...

Tweeted for ya. :)

Dick Puddlecote said...

That was quick, a candidate already.

Mark, Real-Ale-Reviews.com said...

Full of the joy of life Curmudgeon!

I can share a few from Morley, west Yorks if you need, just let me know where to send them to.

Anonymous said...

Google street view is already out of date. Just last night I passed yet another newly closed pub.

Curmudgeon said...

"just let me know where to send them to"

closedpubs AT pubcurmudgeon.org.uk

Cooking Lager said...

Fantastic Mudge, I might just set up a blog about all the new Tesco's that open :)

Anonymous said...

The picture gallery will show the
true extent of the decimation of our way of life especially for those with mega blinkers on.


Just a thought for denialists
Spain
Severe recession
20% unemployment
Supermarket beer ,extremely cheap
Downturn in tourism
High bar prices

Yet
Bar closures negligable
0.5% at last count
9% in UK 18 times the rate of closures


Any ideas?

Real World

Anonymous said...

Emmerdale's Woolpack closed
due to "high rents and price of beer"
Before the oversize garden gnomes and whiskered hobbits start nodding their aggeement with the above reasons,
just try a gallon of the bitter truth.

Pissimist

Anonymous said...

WWW,BBC Wales.Pubs face mass closure with some truths onboard.
Has a few pubs going to auction
plus a usual snippet from
Welsh CAMRA

Tyson said...

Very odd. Can't see what you're trying to prove by quoting Spainish statistics. Why not Peru or Israel?

There is no resemblance whatsoever between the UK pub scene and Spanish drinking culture. It's comparing apples with oranges.