Newport Pub Closures - update

From Brew Wales

Well what a difference a year makes in Newport, the former Lliswerry pub, renamed the Seven Styles (pictured above), has now been demiloshed, yet another building site awaiting development in Newport (pictured below).

There have been a few pub reopenings in Newport of late:
Friendship, Ringland has become Harveys of Ringland

Hornblower, Commercial St. Admiral Taverns

Engineers Arms, Baneswell, Admiral Taverns

Church House, Pill, Harveys

Maindee Hotel, Maindee, S & N Pub Enterprises (though Freehold is for sale)

Queens Hotel, Baneswell/City Centre, JDW

Of course this hardly makes up for the 52 pub closures a week mentioned by the British Beer & Pub Association earlier this week.
Here is a list of Newport pubs that have closed since 1997, a few may reopen but 44 is still a shocking number.

Newport Pub Closures since 1997:

1. Simpsons, High St, Closed – empty building
2. Chartist Arms, High St – closed – premises converted into a restaurant
3. Carpenters Arms, High Street – closed – freehold for sale
4. Lloyds, Cambrian Rd, became Jarcals, then Tesco Extra. Beer quality has improved!
5. Breeze, Cambrian Rd, closed, lying empty
6. Newport Brewhouse, Market St, now a nightclub
7. Trout, Market St, became Can-Cans, closed, building derelict
8. Ale House, ex-Sovereign, John Frost Square, closed and demolished
9. Welsh Prince, Commercial St, closed – premises converted into a Thai restaurant. Freehold for sale.
10. Langtons, Charles St, closed – premises auctioned 11.08
11. King William IV, Commercial St, closed – derelict building
12. Scrum Half, Commercial St, closed, retail premises
13. Westgate Hotel, Commercial St, closed, part retail premises
14. Royal Exchange, became Harveys in Pill, Commercial Rd. Closed, building derelict
15. Mariners Hotel, Commercial Rd, closed
16. Welcome Home, Commercial Rd, closed, residential accommodation
17. Black Horse, formerly Celtic Bar/Falcon, Commercial Rd
18. Waterloo Inn, Alexander Rd, closed and re-opened as a restaurant and hotel
19. Cumberland house, Courtybella Tce, - closed -residential
20. Orange Tree, St Michael St, - closed and demolished
21. White Hart, Tredegar St, closed, business unit
22. Old Rising Sun, Malpas Rd, closed, building derelict
23. Pentwyn House, Bettws – closed
24. Chaplins, Caerleon, demolished, residential development
25. Cotton Club, Cambrian rd
26. Three Salmons, Rogerstone, now an Indian Restaurant
27. Jolly Roger, Rogerstone, now an Indian restaurant
28. Old Globe, Rogerstone , now an Indian/Chinese restaurant
29. Dolphin, Dolphin St, Pill, closed residential
30. Seven, was Yates Wine Lodge, converted from the Tredegar Arms, High Street. Closed
31. Victoria, Corporation Rd, closed – converted into restaurant
32. Crown Inn, Albert Avenue, closed
33. Seven Styles, was Lliswerry Hotel, closed and demolished, residential development
34. King, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, residential development
35. Black Horse, Somerton, closed, awaiting demolition, Tesco Extra
36. Pullmans, Spytty, demolished, KFC on site. Food improved.
    
37. New Inn, Bishton, now residential
38. Globe, Maindee Enterprise Inns, closed
39. King's Arms Belmont Hill, Enterprise Inns
40. Waterloo, Pill, converted to restaurant and hotel
41. O'Reilleys, Baneswell, became Ryans Bar, then Xit, closed
42. Golden Hart, Cardiff Rd, closed
43. Gladiator, Malpas, closed
44. Merry Miller, Bettws, closed. Punch taverns
    

New Pubs since 1997

Dragonfly, Cardiff Rd, M & B

1995 Wetherspoons, became John Wallace Linton, JDW

1999 Godfrey Morgan, Maindee, JDW

2002 Tom Toya Lewis, Commercial St, JDW

Banc, Maindee

Page, High St

With the exception of the Dragonfly they are all superpubs.

Hardly surprising the Murenger has a sign up announcing it is the "Haven in a Superpub ghetto".