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[Sussex] Closed pubs of Sussex













Yes Chef

Well-known member
Apr 11, 2016
1,825
In the kitchen
Worked there one Christmas. No locals, only parties in the function room both lunchtime and evenings. Made a killing. Paid coach drivers to stop off on the way down and back to Eastbourne. Little old ladies paid over the top for 'home brewed' bottles of cider and mead not knowing I'd spent all morning taking the Merrydown labels off the bottles.
I learnt a lot from the landlord. For instance, all you can drink cabaret parties. Arrive at pub but landlord not available with tickets so have to buy first drink. Landlord arrives with tickets but only time to get one free drink as food is served. After food time for one drink as cabaret starts and no moving permitted. After cabaret time for one drink before last orders. Then bar reopens but all cash sales.

That landlord sounds like a wanker
 












sams dad

I hate Palarse
Feb 7, 2004
6,383
The Hill of The Gun
The Black Duck at Warbleton has closed.
It has been struggling for a while, but Covid restrictions were the final straw.
Another country pub lost.
 










HAILSHAM SEAGULL

Well-known member
Nov 9, 2009
10,347
The Black Duck at Warbleton has closed.
It has been struggling for a while, but Covid restrictions were the final straw.
Another country pub lost.

Damn good pub and excellent food, real shame.
 






Springal

Well-known member
Feb 12, 2005
23,837
GOSBTS
Red Lion in Shoreham has closed too

That is a shame, their Easter beer festival had become an annual event for a group of us. Hope it manages to find new owners
 




Lenny Rider

Well-known member
Sep 15, 2010
5,434
Has the Horns Lodge at Chailey reopened?

A former colleague had it for a bit, but he was to the licence trade what Greg Stanley was to flower arranging.
 






Lyndhurst 14

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2008
5,129
It’s never reopened after the ‘lockdown’

It was a great pub. Used to do it as part of the Shoreham pub crawl when I lived in the UK, along with the Buckingham Arms, Lazy Toad (Piston Broke) and the Welly when Roy Chuter was the landlord. Think the Red Lion may have been on the Camra Ale Trail back in the day
 




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