Consultation on historic pub interiors in Yorkshire and Humber

Few historic pub interiors have survived the tidal wave of modernising change of the past three decades. The proportion in Yorkshire, with its 6,000 or so public houses, could be as low as two percent.

The dwindling of this important cultural and built heritage has been largely ignored by mainstream conservationists and it has fallen to CAMRA to fill the knowledge gap.

The Yorkshire Regional Inventory sets out what CAMRA has so far identified as the most significant historic pub interiors surviving in Yorkshire today. It is our honest attempt to promote some debate and shared vision, among a diversity of professionals and decision-makers, about which pub interiors most deserve to be spared from insensitive change.

This is the first-ever project of its kind to be undertaken for the whole Yorkshire Region and it is presented here, in first-draft form, as a basis for consultation. Our hope is that professionals and other interested parties across the Region will be willing to share their opinions and knowledge with us, thereby helping to put the Inventory into a final shape that will have widespread support.

Are there any deserving historic interiors we have so far overlooked? Do any of our present entries seem questionable? Is any further information available which might enhance the detail of the listings?

Comment and feedback is very genuinely and warmly invited.

Please write to;-

      David Gamston, 9 Fulfordgate, York, YO10 4LY

Or email;-

       yorkshire.pubheritage@camra.org.uk