Going to be turned into a private home. Used to be a great pub this back in the day, arguably best pint of Strongarm in town during the 80s/early 90s.

One of the things the Headland has going for it , is its numerous pubs. If everyone publican got together in joint effort the Headland could attract beer drinkers from far and wide to go on a Headland pub crawl, alas the New Inn will never be part of this dream.

I know pubs are closing for a multitude of reasons, but a reason a lot of them close is that their owners either dont know what they are doing or dont care or both. I stopped going to the New Inn a long time ago, when the Strongarm became undrinkable and what few customers it had left , couldnt manage to say the word fuck without swearing.

Another part of the towns history gone.

RIP the NEW INN

When bored some months ago I looked at the Hartlepool then and now website, the amount of boozers in the town at one stage in the 70s/80s was incredible.

It had a few, though I have found travelling around , that other towns had many more. Hartlepool pubs tended to be in the town centre, whereas in other industrial towns, you would find them street corners, such as in the streets of Elwick , Park and Grange roads, therefore the Hartlepub myth is a misnomer IMO.

The East of Hartlepool has been decimated, with every pub closing , ironically the two nearby that survive only opened in the last 25 years, Tall Ships and Gillens.

pubs are a dying trade anyway even before the virus. if there are no games on you can go anywhere in the country for a quiet dring monday to thursday. we have a couple in my area that only open friday to sunday and one does food before the virus. probebly the last thing i,d get involved in buying nowadays.

The in-laws lived in Ware (Herts) and it must be one of the most overcrowded towns with Pubs (Population around 18,000)

Going back a few years there were something like 70 Pubs, along the High Street there were 5 next to each other.

I swear the father-in-law at the time regularly drank in most of them.

When there on a Friday night went out with him and we probably drank in a dozen of them - him mostly on McMullens Mild whilst after 3/4 I had to get on the shorts (Whiskey)

The secret of the new inn having the best pint of strongarm was that a bottle of lemonade was added to the barrel.

McMullens, nice under the radar brewery/pint. used to be a few of their pubs in Barnet when we played there, AK was a good beer of theirs , not sure if that was a mild. Southern breweries doing milds was a rarity, but those that did , usually produced a good beer IMO

I'm really missing my micro brewery trips, Bloody Covid!

I'm going to one on Saturday, before a Northern League game

Yes the McMullens AK is their Mild which I think is dark.

I think it's available in Cask Beer Boxes - 10 litres for just over £32 from their online shop

Ha. That's not the first time I've heard that one. Allegedly the New Inn weren't on their own.

Thats not bad at £1.82 a pint.

Benny Metcalfe was the landlord as i remember?

Can really see an avalanche of pub and club closures in the new year. There is no doubt that there is a considerable oversupply in the town and this will weed out the weakest. However it may also close a few decent ones too.
The direction before covid19 was either small micro type pubs with small overheads or large food dominated pubs. Covid19 has turned this on its head.
If social distancing measures are in place for a long term margins (prices) will have to increase to cover for the volume decline and I feel that could be 50p to a quid on a pint which may have a further impact on volumes.
Its going to look very different in the future with only those who innovate or have significant resources surviving.

The pub trade in hpool was in major decline not long bfor covid kicked in.
Ye covid will only speed up the pub closures.
Was surprised how cheap even reduced the prices were in 4/5 town centre pubs when we come out of the last lockdown.

A full pub with reasonable prices has a better chance of surviving than the badly managed ones that whack the prices up hopeing to delay the innevertable.

As for the darts/snooker/pool/billiards league's iexpect them to lose the lowest division when so called normal service resumes.
Whenever that is I read last week some scientist predicting the normal life of 2019 won't return till 2024.

"Full" pubs are not an option due to social distancing and pub usage across the age groups is changing and declining. It simply won't be worth opening the doors for many as pub companies will still be looking at preserving rental income and you will have the perverse situation of closures been forced by greedy owners.
I feel the working mens clubs will take a particular battering with many of them now in a very bad state of decor or and repair.
There will be a few who come out of this well but it won't be many of them flogging cheap John smiths and Fosters.
If it is 2024 as Mr KPG says the job is buggered.

The top brewery's will slowly increase the prices of cans to the supermarkets.
Less Hassel guaranteed profit as me pal who knows a brewery rep from castle Eden says it's all goin to plan.
Different era now wer the young guns get tanked up at home then go out at 10pm.


Ya got to adapt to the times.
I've actually enjoyed the few beers at home during the good weather.
IPTV You Tube music.
Not to sure about the next few months like.

There is no way I wouldn't notice lemonade in a pint of Strongarm , that's just typical malicious Hartlepool bullshit.

Agree though pubs as we know them have little future, a variety of reasons, but mainly due to lifestyle changes. Those who own them will do okay as they are sitting on a fortune in property , that can be turned into flats, houses, shops, hotels etc. Only the fittest will survive , mainly the legendary pubs in the big cities, smaller towns will probably have one or two good pubs and that will be it. The rest will be Beefeater , Toby Carvery type places. that aren't really pubs anyway, just restaurants that serve a poor choice of poor quality beer. Conversation and sports teams will continue to suffer as a consequence, as people only go to the pubs that are left to celebrate a special occasion rather than just a catch up with their mates , all very sad but a sign of the times, it applies to lots of things other than pubs, such as industry, high streets, football clubs etc. There has been a helluva lot of change over the last 25 years and part of the problem we have in this country has been our coming to terms with it.

Mr Horden you must have a very strong sense of taste to identify 1 part in 288. I do know a Cockerdor who can though

If it was 1 part to 288 then It may have escaped my attention how do you know anyway?

I always thought they did a nice shandy in the New Inn , now I know why

I heard it from a Camerons area manager and was years later confirmed by the then landlords son. It was a fab pub though miss it as it was.

I always thought the Zetland served the best pint of Strongarm.

Fair enough ! What are their names and where do they live? I want a refund

Another long lost beauty , serves a canny kebab these days

I spent a couple of days walking around Halifax in the summer, came across some great pubs, that weren't open , either opened at 4pm , evenings only or didn't open Monday/Tuesdays etc. There was a lovely Timothy Taylors pub just outside Hebden that I would loved to have spent a couple of hours.

Sad and annoying, but makes you realise what we had and how spoilt we once were in regard to pubs in the middle of nowhere being open all hours during the 70s/80s and 90s.