UK pubs and their history over the past 200 years

The pubwiki is by Kevan Wilding (me), and I have been building this site for over 25 years. The pubwiki site has been greatly aided by Stephen Harris and Ewan who have both added huge amounts of data and many photographs, you are welcome to add detail too - just drop me an email with details, etc.
This site was originally the Essex pub site written by Ian Pubby Hunter. I have added another 50 thousand pages. I am still adding amazing updates for Essex pubs and their early history through my visits to the Essex Record Office.
The web pages are not aligned to Google best practises, BUT they are more accurate than Google AI. I concentrate on factual data rather than the guesses by AI to understand English language, and the pub wiki has a lot of accurate pub history data from the past 200 years.
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. Your local pub is likely to be owned by a guy in Hong Kong.
In the 1990s we saw public houses being closed to avoid anti-competitive law.
Then through covid times, and energy prices riding high, turned our pubs into major sources of real estate, become an attraction to overseas investment companies.
We now have he two largest investment companies running most of the pubs in the UK. These are Stonegate, who also run David Lloyd and many cruise ship lines, and Greene King.
And NOW in 2026, Greene King is struggling with these debts, and selling off properties, and close pubs in London, but open propertties in cheaper areas of the country.

The pub history site by Kevan Wilding. 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.