tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post1841547845096044989..comments2024-03-28T12:16:58.318+00:00Comments on Paul's Beer & Travel Blog: The Demise of the Local Pub GuidePaul Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-48234328061880001002016-05-31T19:21:36.654+01:002016-05-31T19:21:36.654+01:00It’s always interesting and often fascinating look...It’s always interesting and often fascinating looking back over old local pub guides. This is especially the case where they highlight some of the massive changed which have taken place over the past few decades. <br /><br />Names which were once all powerful, yet now forgotten, leap at you off the page, and you wonder how these companies could have ever ended up disappearing from the beer and pub scene altogether. <br /><br />In your neck of the woods, Nev I am thinking of Greenall Whitley, Walkers, Higsons and Boddingtons; around here I am recalling Charringtons, Whitbread, Ind Coope and Trumans - to name but a few.<br /><br />The loss of once cherished pubs, is even harder to bear and again this is where thumbing through these old guides helps one realise how much has been lost.<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-33960953050309682042016-05-29T12:54:32.788+01:002016-05-29T12:54:32.788+01:00A few years ago, I found a copy of The Best Pubs A...A few years ago, I found a copy of <i>The Best Pubs Around Merseyside</i> from 1990. It was interesting because it was published right at the end of the old order before the rise of pub companies. I wrote about it <a href="http://rednev-rearm.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/pubs-around-merseyside-end-of-era.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://rednev-rearm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/then-and-now.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, contrasting the scene of 1990 with the present day.RedNevhttp://rednev-rearm.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com