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26-01-2014, 16:48
Visit The Pub Curmudgeon site (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2014/01/oak-to-be-felled.html)
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Rather depressing, but not entirely surprising, news that Holt’s brewery have put the Royal Oak (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Eccles&hl=en&ll=53.481904,-2.340109&spn=0.009028,0.022724&sll=53.370827,-2.581345&sspn=0.002276,0.005681&oq=eccles&t=h&hnear=Eccles,+United+Kingdom&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.48194,-2.340056&panoid=mGpqiX72e4bVNYdgK2-CxQ&cbp=12,276.37,,0,-10.96) in Eccles up for sale at a mere £170,000. It’s an impressive Grade II listed Edwardian pub that features on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=222). The webpage gives a good impression of its magnificent, unspoilt interior.
However, the comment that it “may close early if no customers” tells its own story. It has been left high and dry by the dramatic shifts and contraction in the pub market in recent years. It has always been somewhat overshadowed by Holt’s two other impressive Edwardian pubs in Eccles – the Grapes (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=75) and the Lamb (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=76).
If you listen to some people, the pubcos are constantly closing thriving pubs down to redevelop them as flats or convenience stores. But somehow I doubt whether potential free-trade buyers will be queueing up for this one, as they weren’t for this Cheshire pub (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/psst-wanna-buy-pub.html) I highlighted a while back.
Another chapter in the long, slow, sad decline of the British pub. If someone buys it and makes a go of it I’ll be gobsmacked. I don’t really expect Holt’s to apply a restrictive covenant.
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Rather depressing, but not entirely surprising, news that Holt’s brewery have put the Royal Oak (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Eccles&hl=en&ll=53.481904,-2.340109&spn=0.009028,0.022724&sll=53.370827,-2.581345&sspn=0.002276,0.005681&oq=eccles&t=h&hnear=Eccles,+United+Kingdom&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.48194,-2.340056&panoid=mGpqiX72e4bVNYdgK2-CxQ&cbp=12,276.37,,0,-10.96) in Eccles up for sale at a mere £170,000. It’s an impressive Grade II listed Edwardian pub that features on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=222). The webpage gives a good impression of its magnificent, unspoilt interior.
However, the comment that it “may close early if no customers” tells its own story. It has been left high and dry by the dramatic shifts and contraction in the pub market in recent years. It has always been somewhat overshadowed by Holt’s two other impressive Edwardian pubs in Eccles – the Grapes (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=75) and the Lamb (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/real-heritage-pub-entry.asp?pubid=76).
If you listen to some people, the pubcos are constantly closing thriving pubs down to redevelop them as flats or convenience stores. But somehow I doubt whether potential free-trade buyers will be queueing up for this one, as they weren’t for this Cheshire pub (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/psst-wanna-buy-pub.html) I highlighted a while back.
Another chapter in the long, slow, sad decline of the British pub. If someone buys it and makes a go of it I’ll be gobsmacked. I don’t really expect Holt’s to apply a restrictive covenant.
More... (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2014/01/oak-to-be-felled.html)