Pub in Sheffield on the edge of Park Hill to be demolished for 22 flats:

One of many closed pubs on this road in regenerated Sheffield, The Durham Ox has been closed for a very long time (doors closed in 1993!) in spite of a burgeoning renewed residential population in the 10 story flats that have recently appeared.

The pubs escaped the clearances of the 1960s to make way for the Park Hill estate and its surrounding Council housing, and managed to survive for 50 years. The map below from circa 1900 shows the densely knitted urban fabric of the area before it was swept away.

The demolition of this pub will make way for a decent number of much needed housing, so I can understand the planning argument for its loss. Nonetheless, another pub is gone in Sheffield.