Across England and Wales, more than two pubs a day vanished in the first six months of the year. Liverpool was once a place with almost a pub on every corner, many of those drinking establishments are with us no longer. In the city centre, at least, there are a few surviving relics.
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00:00 The British Beer and Pub Association are warning that 2,000 of the nation's much
00:06 loved pubs are facing last orders. The Trade Association are calling on
00:12 government intervention as data from Oxford Economics estimates on trade beer
00:17 sales will decline by 9% over the next year. This equates to 1 million fewer
00:24 barrels of beer sold and 25,000 potential job losses in pubs and the
00:31 wider industry. More than two pubs a day vanished in the first six months of the
00:37 year across England and Wales. We have been out to ask you about the pubs that
00:42 have vanished and what you think of the closures.
00:46 They were meeting places for people who just come and have a chat and maybe have a drink or two and just you know have a
00:54 nice time and that sort of disappearing because it really the UK was it was the
01:02 only place really in in the world that had that social aspect of that.
01:09 If pubs aren't about socialising isn't it? So people like socialising and some people go to pubs to socialise and if there's no pubs they might go and do different things.
01:19 Might be positive, might be negative. There's one place just on the corner at the end of
01:29 Green Lane
01:32 and the end where Aster is, that used to be a pub. That's completely closed down now.
01:42 The Villiers which is I think used to be next door to what used to be city
01:51 models, used to be a, you'd sell model cars. There's a Wetherspoons like every mile you know that you walk.
01:59 So there's like four Wetherspoons that I know of and there's more that people
02:03 tell me of so there's quite a lot of Wetherspoons pubs round here and Yateys is there and all the Irish bars are here.
02:10 So I think one day when we walked around counting we counted 22 pubs that we could go and drink in.
02:17 Well you've got the Baltic Fleet, that's there. I used to go in there as well but I mean that's still going as far as I know.
02:29 I've not been up that way for a while but I mean one week it's there and then the next week it's gone unfortunately.
02:37 Once a place with a pub on almost every corner, many of those drinking establishments are now a thing of the past.
02:45 In the city centre at least there are a few surviving relics from days gone by.
02:51 In what's being termed a make or break moment, the British Beer and Pub Association are encouraging those interested in supporting their locals to sign the Long Live the Local petition.