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Athol VaultsThe LambethPub closures are nothing new. Hundreds shut in the 1950s and 60s as neighbourhoods were cleared in the massive slum clearance programmes. Now a whole range of problems has resulted in another wave that has led to many ‘locals’ putting up the towels for the last time. Faced with the smoking ban, cheap [...]
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There is a similar book about Birmingham pubs
Mossy
Good quality colour photos in the book, could even be a lot more but printing costs I suppose. I have a few thousand on my site, of which a couple of hundred are either closed or have done since. It's a pity there wasn't more text accompanying each pub pic, perhaps with a bit of history about the pub or its surrounding area.