Rex_Rattus
01-05-2012, 16:44
Seeing the thread about rpadam's technical problem in adding pubs got me thinking about a small problem I've encountered. Dave said that in most cases when non-regular forum users ask for pubs to be added it turns out that the pub is already on the site. But I have some sympathy with people having to find out if a pub is already on here.
Some while ago I came across a pub in Wandsworth that was not listed on here. Now Wandsworth is a well trodden area by London reviewers so my first though was that it really was on here somewhere and I had failed to find it somehow. Obviously it wasn't listed under its current name so I then searched for it under closed pubs of that name, but no joy. Map points were no help, as you can't see a map point of a closed pub unless you can find the pub. This is when it got tricky - I then thought it might have been closed under a previous name, and opened under a new name (it does happen!). In that case I thought that the only way I might find it is to look at all the closed pubs in Wandsworth to see if one of them was listed at the address of the pub I had found (I had found the address of the pub elsewhere). When I still didn't find the pub on the site I added it as a new pub.
But - is there an easier way to find a pub closed under a different name than the tortuous method I employed? Has anyone else encountered this situation and come up with a better solution?
Some while ago I came across a pub in Wandsworth that was not listed on here. Now Wandsworth is a well trodden area by London reviewers so my first though was that it really was on here somewhere and I had failed to find it somehow. Obviously it wasn't listed under its current name so I then searched for it under closed pubs of that name, but no joy. Map points were no help, as you can't see a map point of a closed pub unless you can find the pub. This is when it got tricky - I then thought it might have been closed under a previous name, and opened under a new name (it does happen!). In that case I thought that the only way I might find it is to look at all the closed pubs in Wandsworth to see if one of them was listed at the address of the pub I had found (I had found the address of the pub elsewhere). When I still didn't find the pub on the site I added it as a new pub.
But - is there an easier way to find a pub closed under a different name than the tortuous method I employed? Has anyone else encountered this situation and come up with a better solution?