My 'local' Of 37 Years Is Closing Tomorrow.

[EDDIE51]

My 'local' pub is closing tomorrow, I have been a customer for the last 37 years. Not really a question more a moan. What the hell am I going to do now? We used to have 11 pubs in my small town now we are down to 4 and the nearest is over on the other side of town, too far to walk at 3 miles away.
The Pool and darts teams will be homeless from tomorrow as well both the other pubs that have a pool/darts team play in the same league so they can't have 2 home teams.

[2sp_]

Have you got a shed Eddie? Set up bar in there and invite all your pub mates to come for a donation.

Strange how we are being told that we are all drinking more than ever, but the pubs are all closing. Supermarket booze aisles doing well?

[excelsior-1]

hello EDDIE

that is a crying shame, i don't know what to say - presumably you'll all have a big final drinking session tomorrow

[decmangan]

Why is it closing?

[gness]

That's a pain, Eddie and a common one....it's not that we want a pub just for the drink....it's the camaraderie... clubs...quiz nights....etc....and yet we are losing so many....

[tonyav]

I know what you mean, EDDIE. It's a real shame that, but I think it's a similar story over most of the country at the moment.

[Hopkirk]

You'll be a bit better off though

[Buenchico]

Time to catch a train perhaps, Eddie?
https://www.facebook.com/FlyingPigCambridge
;-)

[tamborine]

Set up in all night Tesco car park. They have nicked the trade!

[decmangan]

I realise that a lot of pubs have closed. There is normally a reason given by someone. Is it not viable, is it being sold for gain etc.?

[EDDIE51]

Yes it will be a 'session' tomorrow, free drinks for regular customers and other drinks all at £2 each until they run out. I am 63 and have been using that pub since 1976 or 77 not sure which. I am thinking of going dressed as if I was going to a funeral with a black tie and suit. One of the remaining 4 pubs is a 'Weatherspoons' so more a MacDonald's with beer than a proper pub. Even worse another one of the pubs has no real ale which is all I ever drink, so that is out of the question as well.
I think I must be the' longest serving customer' most of the regulars were not even born when I started using the pub.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry to hear that, Eddie, we had a nearby pub go and the next one invited them in to run their team from them. Sounds like you have some way to go for that though.....

[EDDIE51]

The long serving Landlady of 23 years died 2 years ago and left the pub to her 3 children. There is a guest house beside it as well which is also closing.
They have been offered £1.5 million for the pub and guest house, it is being turned into a care home. The lure of £500,000 each has proved too much for her 3 children ( who are all adults now)

[Buenchico]

>>>One of the remaining 4 pubs is a 'Weatherspoons' so more a MacDonald's with beer than a proper pub

You must have one of the poorer Wetherspoon's then, Eddie. Some of them are really classy, such as this one down the road (or rail track) from me:
http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-corn-exchange-bury-st-edmunds

Actually, now that you've made me think of it, I've realised that there's a train in a few minutes time. See you later!

[marval]

What a shame for you Eddie. So many pubs are closing

[Svejk]

very annoying. my boys are in their 20s and hardly ever go to the pub. don't know where I went wrong with them. ;(

[EDDIE51]

Buenchico I still get into the Flying Pig as often as possible but Cambridge is a £6 train ride away, no good for a 'quick one'
Nothing against Weatherspoons I go in there often but it does not have the atmosphere of a 'proper pub' and the bar staff are different every time you go in. Plus you have to wait for a beer while the staff are busy making coffee and taking food orders, it must do 75% of its business on food and coffee rather than alcohol.

[tamborine]

4 gone here for houses & flats. Build/hire premises, get license, create jobs for staff; get others to make it a co-operative to share exes & profits.

[Canary42]

Follow the example of the good folk of Denmead.

[Canary42]

Ooops, forgot the link

http://foxandhounds-pub.co.uk

[EDDIE51]

^^ Too late and any way we could not match the £1.5 million it has sold for!