CAMRA Rant about PuG
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"Pubs Galore is not that great.
Following your recommendation, I looked at pubs in Keighley, where I live, to see what the maps were like. First thing that jumped out: There is a pub marked as closed, because a reviewer reported it as closed last December. Quote: The Red pig now seems to be closed with all the signage taken down, and looks like it could be living accommodation but i cannot find anything on line to confirm this
Stick to WhatPub! On WhatPub, we don’t mark pubs as closed because some random reviewer happened to pass by and thought, because the signs had been taken down, that it had been converted to living accommodation. (The pub was undergoing an external makeover as part of a Bradford Council scheme to upgrade Church Green.) There is, of course, living accommodation on the first and second floors where the managers live, but the downstairs is alive and kicking – I attended a wake there a couple of weeks ago, consumed rather too much Landlord. Nothing on the web to confirm it is closed? The reviewer obviously didn’t look at WhatPub, then! It is very definitely open on there – probably doesn’t have a very recent ‘Last updated’ date because no-one’s changed it recently, because like most Keighley pubs, it’s the same inside as it was 5 years ago, indeed it’s pretty much the same inside as it was 35 years ago. Probably doesn’t sell Theakstons any longer as shown on WP, so I guess I’d better survey it properly in the next few days having had this rant....
..and no, I’m not going to update the details on a web-site that is to all intents and purposes in competition with WhatPub. Keeping WhatPub up-to-date takes up quite enough of my time without updating rival web-sites as well. I shall mention to Janet (the manager) or Bob and Janice (the owners) that there is a web-site stating the Pig is closed next time I see them and let them deal with it. Bob might be amused or he might just threaten to sue them, or both!
PS The map of Keighley that Pubs Galore gave me showed no pubs at all, not sure why. The map for the Red Pig shows it where it is, in exactly the same place as WhatPub shows it. I tried looking at a couple of other pubs in other nearby towns. On the third one I looked at the map has a disclaimer: ‘Map location is best guess’. Mmmh... Didn’t bother exploring any further."
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Originally Posted by oldboots
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