| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:48 - Feb 6 with 1383 views | BlueBadger |
Nothing says 'respect for heritage' more than filling them full of all-day drinkers and gammon and infusing them with the smell of stale beer and oven chips. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:49 - Feb 6 with 1369 views | hampstead_blue |
He is certainly a man in love with this country.
Full marks to him. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:50 - Feb 6 with 1359 views | EdwardStone |
A self-made man
Just not done a very good job of it |  | | |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:02 - Feb 6 with 1336 views | Guthrum |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:48 - Feb 6 by BlueBadger |
Nothing says 'respect for heritage' more than filling them full of all-day drinkers and gammon and infusing them with the smell of stale beer and oven chips. |
To be fair, by keeping them functional in some fashion, he has saved what were otherwise not always very useful redundant spaces (e.g. old cinemas) from falling into disrepair and being demolished. Preserving a lot of period decoartion in the process.
I do also like the information displays in each pub detailing the history of the location, the building itself and local personalities. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:02 - Feb 6 with 1330 views | noggin |
Rool britanya. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:06 - Feb 6 with 1314 views | chicoazul |
I enjoy many of the films of Roman Polanski, who fled America after pleading guilty for sexual assault. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:11 - Feb 6 with 1297 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:02 - Feb 6 by Guthrum |
To be fair, by keeping them functional in some fashion, he has saved what were otherwise not always very useful redundant spaces (e.g. old cinemas) from falling into disrepair and being demolished. Preserving a lot of period decoartion in the process.
I do also like the information displays in each pub detailing the history of the location, the building itself and local personalities. |
That's very true; plenty of towns have derelict theatres and cinemas. There' one in Swansea that's been left to rot and only now there are plans to restore it.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/treasured-swansea-building-ama
Badger's reply did make me chuckle though. There's a certain culture clash between the buildings' original use and those that have been turned into Spoons. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:19 - Feb 6 with 1278 views | BrianTablet |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:48 - Feb 6 by BlueBadger |
Nothing says 'respect for heritage' more than filling them full of all-day drinkers and gammon and infusing them with the smell of stale beer and oven chips. |
It's basically a Will-Of-The-People National Trust, rather than the Elite Establishment Quango that we have now.
#makestatelyhomesgreatagain #abeer(ortwo)withyourfryupisntacrime |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:23 - Feb 6 with 1256 views | GeoffSentence |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:02 - Feb 6 by Guthrum |
To be fair, by keeping them functional in some fashion, he has saved what were otherwise not always very useful redundant spaces (e.g. old cinemas) from falling into disrepair and being demolished. Preserving a lot of period decoartion in the process.
I do also like the information displays in each pub detailing the history of the location, the building itself and local personalities. |
I don't much like what I have seen of Tim Martin on the telly box, but I have to admire how he runs his business.
From the spectacular buildings the he chooses, like these which are a draw in themselves, to his pricing and just getting the details right, brandy served in brandy glasses for instances - a lot of 'proper' pubs get that wrong, that business is run well.
On the downside, you rarely get a such a good view of the interiors of his buildings through the forest of purple rinse taking advantage of lunch for a tenner. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:23 - Feb 6 with 1256 views | Guthrum |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:11 - Feb 6 by Swansea_Blue |
That's very true; plenty of towns have derelict theatres and cinemas. There' one in Swansea that's been left to rot and only now there are plans to restore it.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/treasured-swansea-building-ama
Badger's reply did make me chuckle though. There's a certain culture clash between the buildings' original use and those that have been turned into Spoons. |
Even there, the early cinemas (and many of the theatres) were palaces of mass entertainment for the common people, not erudition. Very little different from the modern Saturday night TV (overwrought melodramas, sentimental music, a bit of comedy, maybe something saucy, being typical fare). | |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:43 - Feb 6 with 1232 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Good to see listed buildings invested in. Most of those mentioned do not convert well to pubs, as evidenced by the photos. [Post edited 6 Feb 2020 10:43]
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 12:30 - Feb 6 with 1136 views | The_Last_Baron |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 09:48 - Feb 6 by BlueBadger |
Nothing says 'respect for heritage' more than filling them full of all-day drinkers and gammon and infusing them with the smell of stale beer and oven chips. |
What a bitter, joyless response to the work of a fine man providing jobs and saving fantastic buildings into the bargain. |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 12:54 - Feb 6 with 1107 views | noggin |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 12:30 - Feb 6 by The_Last_Baron |
What a bitter, joyless response to the work of a fine man providing jobs and saving fantastic buildings into the bargain. |
As well as giving the unemployed something to do with their giro money. | |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 13:33 - Feb 6 with 1073 views | HARRY10 |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 10:23 - Feb 6 by GeoffSentence |
I don't much like what I have seen of Tim Martin on the telly box, but I have to admire how he runs his business.
From the spectacular buildings the he chooses, like these which are a draw in themselves, to his pricing and just getting the details right, brandy served in brandy glasses for instances - a lot of 'proper' pubs get that wrong, that business is run well.
On the downside, you rarely get a such a good view of the interiors of his buildings through the forest of purple rinse taking advantage of lunch for a tenner. |
I'm not sure if he 'runs his business' given that he only has a 32% share of it. |  | | |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 13:34 - Feb 6 with 1070 views | tractordownsouth |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 12:30 - Feb 6 by The_Last_Baron |
What a bitter, joyless response to the work of a fine man providing jobs and saving fantastic buildings into the bargain. |
*jobs that the taxpayer has to subsidise with tax credits because he pays people below the living wage |  |
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| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 13:43 - Feb 6 with 1055 views | noggin |
| Tim Martin - keeping beautiful building alive on 13:34 - Feb 6 by tractordownsouth |
*jobs that the taxpayer has to subsidise with tax credits because he pays people below the living wage |
Patriot indeed. That is disgraceful practice. | |
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