THE lost pubs of Worcester are clearly a fascination or source of nostalgia for many Memory Lane readers, judging by the considerable response I had to my recent feature on 14 taverns of yesteryear which are, alas, no longer part of the city scene.
Here are another dozen hospitable havens which were wiped from the face of Worcester, mostly during the second half of the 20th Century.
Over time Worcester has boasted a total of about 450 pubs but only around 70 still survive today. In fact, the Faithful City now has half as many pubs as when I started as a young trainee reporter on the Evening News 50 years ago!
The staggering toll on Worcester pubs since the early 1950s has continued gradually but unabated with yet more closures through the 1980s and 90s.
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