- Simpsons, High St, Closed – empty building
- Chartist Arms, High St – closed – premises converted into a restaurant
- Carpenters Arms, High Street – closed – freehold for sale
- Lloyds, Cambrian Rd, became Jarcals, then Tesco Extra. Beer quality has improved!
- Breeze, Cambrian Rd, closed, lying empty
- Newport Brewhouse, Market St, now a nightclub
- Trout, Market St, became Can-Cans, closed, building derelict
- Ale House, ex-Sovereign, John Frost Square, closed and demolished
- Welsh Prince, Commercial St, closed – premises converted into a Thai restaurant. Freehold for sale.
- Langtons, Charles St, closed – premises auctioned 11.08
- King William IV, Commercial St, closed – derelict building
- Scrum Half, Commercial St, closed, retail premises
- Westgate Hotel, Commercial St, closed, part retail premises
- Royal Exchange, became Harveys in Pill, Commercial Rd. Closed, building derelict
- Mariners Hotel, Commercial Rd, closed
- Welcome Home, Commercial Rd, closed, residential accommodation
- Black Horse, formerly Celtic Bar/Falcon, Commercial Rd
- Waterloo Inn, Alexander Rd, closed and re-opened as a restaurant and hotel
- Cumberland house, Courtybella Tce, - closed -residential
- Orange Tree, St Michael St, - closed and demolished
- White Hart, Tredegar St, closed, business unit
- Old Rising Sun, Malpas Rd, closed, building derelict
- Pentwyn House, Bettws – closed
- Chaplins, Caerleon, demolished, residential development
- Cotton Club, Cambrian rd
- Three Salmons, Rogerstone, now an Indian Restaurant
- Jolly Roger, Rogerstone, now an Indian restaurant
- Old Globe, Rogerstone , now an Indian/Chinese restaurant
- Dolphin, Dolphin St, Pill, closed residential
- Seven, was Yates Wine Lodge, converted from the Tredegar Arms, High Street
- Victoria, Corporation Rd, closed – converted into restaurant
- Crown Inn, Albert Avenue, closed
- Seven Styles, was Lliswerry Hotel, closed and demolished, residential development
- King, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, residential development
- Black Horse, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, Tesco Extra
- Pullmans, Spytty, demolished, KFC on site
- New Inn, Bishton, now residential
- Globe, Maindee Enterprise Inns
- King's Arms Belmont Hill, Enterprise Inns
- Waterloo, Pill, converted to restaurant and hotel
- Golden Hart, Cardiff Rd, closed
- Walkabout, was Queens Hotel
- Gladiator, Malpas
Under threat
Roman Lodge Hotel, Ponthir Road, - planning permission applied for conversion to apartments
Hereford Arms, Maindee, planning permission applied for residential apartments
New Pub openings
Dragonfly, Cardiff Rd, M & B
1995 Wetherspoons, became John Wallace Linton, JDW
1999 Godfrey Morgan, Maindee, JDW
2002 Tom Toya Lewis, Commercial St, JDW
2009 Queens Hotel, JDW
Banc, Maindee
Page, High St
Reopenings
Friendship Ringland has become Harveys of Ringland
Hornblower, Commercial St. Admiral Taverns
Engineers Arms, Baneswell, Admiral Taverns
Church House, Pill, Harveys
Maindee Hotel, Maindee, S & N pub enterprises
Since 1997 and with the ever rising taxes, duties and business rates imposed by Labour has created a perfect storm for small businesses of all sorts.
Sadly what is also notable is that those pubs that have opened are owned by large corporate chains like the dire JD Wetherspoon. These are supermarkets in pub clothing, rather than traditional pubs run by a host who knows his/her customers and who has a pride in real ale.
This is just one town in the UK, the situation is happening in every town across the land.
Remember a vote for the champagne swilling socialist scum of New Labour, is a vote for higher taxes and more closed pubs.
Hat tip to http://beerbrewer.blogspot.com/ for the stats.
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