Last orders at The Mitre
Revisiting old haunts today, only to be met by this sad sight - another of our city's many suburban public houses has shut down, after its transmogrification into a Chinese restaurant failed to keep the place going.
Pretty sure I never drank there, but knew it well as a kid since the nearby bus stop took its name from the pub - and, in the mid60s, aged 10 or 11, I'd be asking the conductor for a ticket to "The Mitre" five times a week!
The large site and adjacent bowling green may well be re-purposed, but one wonders what chance the building, a mock-Tudor erection of 1933, might have....
Last orders at The Mitre
Revisiting old haunts today, only to be met by this sad sight - another of our city's many suburban public houses has shut down, after its transmogrification into a Chinese restaurant failed to keep the place going.
Pretty sure I never drank there, but knew it well as a kid since the nearby bus stop took its name from the pub - and, in the mid60s, aged 10 or 11, I'd be asking the conductor for a ticket to "The Mitre" five times a week!
The large site and adjacent bowling green may well be re-purposed, but one wonders what chance the building, a mock-Tudor erection of 1933, might have....