Landlords, legends, census records, and lost taverns.
The story behind UK pubs and their history.
The pub history site is regularly updated by me, Kevan Wilding, as it has been for the past 20 years or so. I am visiting the Essex Record Office on a regular basis at present, and continuing to add the early 1769 to 1825 Alehouse Recognizances to all my Essex pub history records.
The monopoly in public houses, and real estate, is largely a problem caused by the issues of the larger companies owning too much, and keeps coming back into focus.
In the 1990s we saw public houses being closed to avoid anti-competitive law.
And now in 2024, after covid, many pubs closing or entire pub chains going into bankruptcy, and then sold to investment companies, and the problem has just continued to get worse.
Please send me some pictures and other detail to update the sites.