Is This The End Of Our Public Houses?

As the government considers the impact to businesses across the country in the wake of the Covid 19 Pandemic, it is clear that one industry that has suffered greatly is that of the hospitality industry, most notably Pubs and Restaurants which have been closed for business for almost forty weeks since the start of Lockdown. For an industry that was already in slow decline prior to the pandemic its future hangs in the balance. Here we consider the impact our public houses have had on our country’s historic development, their precarious position in our society today and what hope there is, if any, for the country’s remaining hospitality building stock.