Heritage Pub Bulletins

September 02, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   West Midlands, BARTONS ARMS, Birmingham. We are pleased to hear that the Bartons Arms reopened on the 31st August. This famous Birmingham pub was designed by architects James & Lister Lea for Mitchell & Butlers and...

July 31, 2024

CAMRA Heritage Award. We bring you news of the inaugural ‘Heritage Award’ - a new annual CAMRA national award which will be run in tandem with CAMRA’s well established Pub Saving Award. The Heritage Award will celebrate the successful revitalisation...

June 29, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   Merseyside, VINES, Liverpool. The winners of the annual CAMRA Pub Design Awards were revealed in the opulent surroundings of the magnificent Vines on the 19th June. The grade II* Vines has been awarded the prestigious Historic...

May 31, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   Sunderland & South Tyneside, STAGS HEAD, South Shields. This traditional town centre pub dates from 1897 and has an unusual floorplan from that period - having one downstairs and one upstairs bar due to the narrow...

April 30, 2024

Local Inventory Project Dave Pickersgill from the Pub Heritage Group has been working on producing guidance for CAMRA branches to produce Local Inventories of pubs of historic interest. The project was launched at the CAMRA AGM in Dundee on April...

March 27, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   West Yorkshire, NEW BEEHIVE, Bradford. Dave Gamston reports that Bradford City Council have granted planning permission to convert the New Beehive to a (Supported) House in Multiple Occupation, against the recommendation of their own conservation officer...

March 01, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   West Midlands, BARTONS ARMS, Birmingham. Many of you will have already learned of the sudden closure on the 31st January of the Bartons Arms, one of the most impressive pubs from the close of the Victorian...

January 31, 2024

Three Star Heritage Pubs   West Yorkshire, GARDEN GATE, Leeds. We are pleased to report the news that the Garden Gate, acclaimed as ‘the jewel in the crown of pub architecture in Yorkshire’ is reopening on the 2nd of February. It...

December 31, 2023

Three Star Heritage Pubs   West Wales, DYFFRYN ARMS, Pontfaen. We bring the sad news that the legendary landlady of the Dyffryn Arms, Bessie Davies died on December 16th aged 94 years. Bessie had been at the Dyffryn Arms for 74...

November 30, 2023

Three Star Heritage Pubs   Greater Manchester, ROYAL OAK HOTEL, Oldham. The Royal Oak sadly closed on the 24th November after landlord Dave Sweeney, who has run the pub for 15 years, was given short notice by owners Inglenook Inns -...