Report - Four Abandoned Pubs in & around the Midlands (Vol III) – Summer 2021

[Mad hatters bitch]

Just a collection of pub derps visited while out and about over the summer, none really deserving their own thread, so here they are lumped together.

Travellers Rest, Leek, Staffordshire

‘A 1930's roadside pub in a rural setting, just south of Leek town centre’

A former Marston’s pub which has been closed for around 4 years, it made the local papers last year when ‘8 explorers were caught inside during lockdown.’ There is currently a planning application for demolition and construction of 18 new homes.

Bagot Arms, Erdington, Birmingham

‘A fine public house dating from the 20s/30s and built to serve the large development of the area at the time.’

In March 2019 a cannabis grow was discovered inside by a police raid and in early August of this year the former pub was destroyed by a large fire.

The Ram Jam Inn, Stretton, Rutland

‘Originally opened as a coaching in called the Winchelsea Arms, it was frequented by the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin in the 18th century. By the 19th century the inn was known as the Ram Jam Inn due to supposed antics of Turpin;

[Turpin] showed his landlady, Mrs Spring, how to draw mild and bitter from a single barrel, stating "ram one thumb in here whilst I make a hole ... now jam your other thumb in this hole while I find the forgotten spile pegs." Turpin subsequently disappeared without paying his bill, while Spring was trapped with two thumbs in the barrel.’

The pub has been closed since 2013 and has since been destroyed by imbeciles.

Duke of Bridgewater, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

‘A Grade II listed long-standing public house which was originally the ‘Master Potters’ accommodation for the nearby Bottom Bridge Pottery of Davenports in Longport. After the house became surplus, it was an inn, the name of which comes from the Third Duke of Bridgewater who, in 1759, hired James Brindley to build a ten mile canal to transport coal from the Dukes’ mines from Worsley to Manchester’.

If ever there were a derp pub in Stoke which I always imagined to have been rammed with nice tiles and acid-etched glass it was this place. But no…

If you've made it this far, then cheers for looking!​

 

[Mad hatters bitch]

I remember drinking in the Duke lived 10 minutes away such a amazing little pub back in the 90s

 

[GRONK]

Epic report @MotionlessMike, I've been after Duke of Bridgewater for years, glad someone finally got it.