Sad to see the Windmill close its doors for the last time. Nothing to do with compliance matters this time, just the state of the industry and the reality that the most valuable thing about many pubs these days is the land they are sat on.
There are a few locally that are about to be built on, the Fernhill in Preesall and the Royal Oak in Poulton, now the Windmill and the Mariners has been a heap of rubble for some time, with surely more to come.
I’m not normally one to shed a tear over pub closures, the market decides what is viable and those that are not need to be something else. There is something sad about a community pub like the Windmill coming the the end of its life though, particularly to be replaced by a Tesco. Just what we need, another supermarket…