The Cricketers Arms, Keighley

Plans from Aldi to knock down a previously saved pub:

An extremely cute back alley pub in Keighley is to be dropped by Aldi, who have assembled a swathe of land in the area to provide a huge surface car park for their second store in Keighley Town Centre.

The pub closed and has been deemed unviable. I’d argue that when Aldi want to buy your pub, you will do what it takes to demonstrate it is unviable.

The pub was squeezed in between a mill (now gone) and a terraced row. Blink and you miss it. Its exactly the sort of place you’d discover serendipitously on a wander, and add it to your mental map of the town’s cultural circuit.

A lot of effort previously went into retaining this pub, and it is a shame that all that work will have been for naught. Another nail in the coffin of Yorkshire’s culture, and sadly one of hundreds like it nationally.