Old pub site is sold for new housing
Last updated 19:50, Thursday, 28 August 2008
AN OLD pub site in Workington has been sold for £25,000 in an auction.
The plot of land on Church Street, where the Ancient Mariner pub stood for 150 years was sold to a Manchester-based developer last week.
The site already has planning permission for two three-bedroom houses to be built.
The pub was destroyed by a gas fire in 2003.
The explosion blew out the front of the building and the fire which followed gutted what was left.
The pub was originally called The Albion and had the nickname the Honky Tonk. Alan Law was the pub’s last landlord.
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