STOCKPORT, GTR MANCHESTER, SWAN WITH TWO NECKS. 
Excellent news – it was listed (grade II) on 14 September. The pub was 
acquired by Robinson’s in 1924 and was evidently rebuilt shortly after 
that. It’s a two-roomer with public bar at the front and lounge behind 
with the servery in between. In front of the servery the corridor expands 
to form a drinking lobby. This is the same type of plan as at other National 
Inventory pubs - the Hare & Hounds, Manchester, and the Swan, York. This 
is generally thought of as a northern plan, yet exactly the same layout 
occurs at the Old Green Tree, Bath (all these pubs have c.1930 arrangements).

HULL, WHITE HART. Alan Canvass reports that it has been closed. 
Piccadilly Licensed Properties (Discovery Pub Co.) are selling the 
freehold fairly cheap by all accounts but are not expecting to sell it 
on for use as a pub.

SUNDERLAND, MOUNTAIN DAISY. Bob Connell says that the new tenant has 
been at the MD for about two months and seems aware of the value of the 
magnificent tiled back room.

WELSHPOOL, GRAPES. Plans have been submitted to open up the two 
left-hand rooms which would undoubtedly knock this pub off the NI. I 
have sent in a vigorous objection from CAMRA.

RUGBY, WARWICKSHIRE, PEACOCK, Newbold Road. Said to be currently closed. 
Any info gratefully received and lease for sale. Mick Slaughter says 
that Admiral Taverns are looking for a new tenant here and also at the 
Villa Tavern, Nechells, Birmingham.

CLOSED PUBS – INCLUDE/NOT INCLUDE IN THE NI? Following the straw poll we 
undertook, some two dozen replies came out with a majority in favour of 
including closed pubs in NI listings but, obviously, with the caveat 
that they are indeed closed. Pub Heritage Group are happy to accept this 
approach and future listings will include such pubs. Thank you to those 
of you who replied to the survey.

1950s/1960s PUBS. CAMRA’s Pub Heritage Group is on the lookout for 
unaltered post-war traditional pubs. Do you know any? They are 
incredibly rare having succumbed with very few exceptions to opening up. 
We have the March Hare, Ashton-under-Lyne, and the Long Acre Tavern, 
Bath But we’re losing some of the few we do have. Permision for 
alterations at Rutherford’s, Edinburgh, has been granted and the Golden 
Eagle, Haywards Heath (Sussex) is about to have opening up between the 
two front bars. It is rumoured that some opening up is to take place at 
the March Hare. We don’t expect architectural masterpieces: pub building 
really didn’t get going again after the war until about 1954/5 due to 
shortage of materials and more pressing national priorities for using 
them. Such pubs as were then built are pretty utilitarian affairs. So 
anything will do just so long as it is multi-room and entirely/almost 
entirely intact.

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