Newport pub closures since 1997.

Newport Pub Closures since 1997:

1. Simpsons, High St, Closed – empty building
2. Chartist Arms, High St – closed – premises converted into a restaurant
3. Carpenters Arms, High Street – closed – freehold for sale
4. Lloyds, Cambrian Rd, became Jarcals, then Tesco Extra. Beer quality has improved!
5. Breeze, Cambrian Rd, closed, lying empty
6. Newport Brewhouse, Market St, now a nightclub
7. Trout, Market St, became Can-Cans, closed, building derelict
8. Ale House, ex-Sovereign, John Frost Square, closed and demolished
9. Welsh Prince, Commercial St, closed – premises converted into a Thai restaurant. Freehold for sale.
10. Langtons, Charles St, closed – premises auctioned 11.08
11. King William IV, Commercial St, closed – derelict building
12. Scrum Half, Commercial St, closed, retail premises
13. Westgate Hotel, Commercial St, closed, part retail premises
14. Royal Exchange, became Harveys in Pill, Commercial Rd. Closed, building derelict
15. Mariners Hotel, Commercial Rd, closed
16. Welcome Home, Commercial Rd, closed, residential accommodation
17. Black Horse, formerly Celtic Bar/Falcon, Commercial Rd
18. Waterloo Inn, Alexander Rd, closed and re-opened as a restaurant and hotel
19. Cumberland house, Courtybella Tce, - closed -residential
20. Orange Tree, St Michael St, - closed and demolished
21. White Hart, Tredegar St, closed, business unit
22. Old Rising Sun, Malpas Rd, closed, building derelict
23. Pentwyn House, Bettws – closed
24. Chaplins, Caerleon, demolished, residential development
25. Cotton Club, Cambrian rd
26. Three Salmons, Rogerstone, now an Indian Restaurant
27. Jolly Roger, Rogerstone, now an Indian restaurant
28. Old Globe, Rogerstone , now an Indian/Chinese restaurant
29. Dolphin, Dolphin St, Pill, closed residential
30. Seven, was Yates Wine Lodge, converted from the Tredegar Arms, High Street
31. Victoria, Corporation Rd, closed – converted into restaurant
32. Crown Inn, Albert Avenue, closed
33. Seven Styles, was Lliswerry Hotel, closed and demolished, residential development
34. King, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, residential development
35. Black Horse, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, Tesco Extra
36. Pullmans, Spytty, demolished, KFC on site
37. New Inn, Bishton, now residential
38. Globe, Maindee Enterprise Inns
39. King's Arms Belmont Hill, Enterprise Inns
40. Waterloo, Pill, converted to restaurant and hotel
41. Golden Hart, Cardiff Rd, closed
42. Walkabout, was Queens Hotel
43. 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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