I just had a look at the Closed Pubs website....depressing, to say the least. Especially boozers I knew and loved around Aston, Newtown and Birchfield. Killed off no doubt by the unwillingness of people to drink and drive (and quite right, too) and the cheap drink available in supermarkets and off-licences for home consumption. I still do like a drinkie or three, but I haven't had a proper pub 'session' for years, as the remaining pubs within walking-distance of my house don't appeal to me. Terrible maybe to admit, but a favourite pastime (if you can call it that) in my late teens was to attempt to have a half-pint in every pub along Summer Lane and Alma Street, starting at The Salutation and trying, at least, to get as far as Six Ways. Never made it. Happy days....
G