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Once bustling with eleven pubs within ninety minutes, Oldham Road in Manchester was a pub-crawling paradise—now it’s a ghost town with miles of empty space between the few remaining establishments. A stark contrast to the 1899 map showing forty-five pubs on the street alone, the UK’s pub scene is collapsing at an alarming rate: two pubs close daily, over two thousand since 2020, and more than sixteen thousand since 2000. Rising costs, shifting lifestyles, and the cost of living crisis are crushing the industry. Beyond lost pints, these pubs were community anchors—places for sports, news, and connection—now fading into boarded-up shells or converted into convenience stores, as social media can’t replicate their soul.

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