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When The Green Man pub went out of business, not only was it abandoned, it was sealed up underground, where it still lies buried beneath this shopping mall.

It currently lies beneath four retail shops and can only be accessed by a hole under in the commercial center.

The Green Man in Loughborough, UK was a popular local pub decorated like a Medieval castle with large wall murals depicting knights and life in the middle ages. The murals still remain, as well as the benches and the bar complete with dusty beer glasses.

It closed its doors for the last time in 1993 when its entrance was walled up during renovation work on the shopping center.

It still has electricity and this sitting area is intact.

Lovely curved wood bar with a now-rusty foot rail.

One of the Medieval murals.

A former DJ for the pub submitted some old photos to the local paper, taken at the Green Man between ‘87-’88.

This was the entrance as it looked in the mall back then. 

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i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

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Rik Mayall  *March 7, 1958

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This is fucked, Britain's second biggest city dimming the street lights cos they're so poor.

Th big money some of these council twats take home is a reward for implementing the government's austerity

But it's not just the evil Tories, the labour council piss money away on vanity projects, lining their own pockets and making their mates flush.

A recent report said corruption in local councils is the rule rather than the exception. The amount of councillors & officials on the take is off the charts. It's standard practice. If you see a councillor on the streets, just assume they're a thief or a nonce and you'll be right more often than not.

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You don't have solidarity with English people, why should we have solidarity with you? Your whole political life is based around only Scotland First. You only get what you give x

Lmao, as if the break up of the UK won’t help people in England. It’ll force a realignment of views and the people of England will finally have their own Parliament.

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Flood warnings today. The red warnings mean 'act now'

Britain is becoming wet & wild as predicted by climate experts. And the gov tell us there isn't enough money to build or maintain flood defences, to restore eco systems, to dredge ditches and unblock drains.

It's fuck you, fend for yourself.

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Honest Government Ad | Visit the UK (2024 Election)

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so if you didn’t know, last week rishi sunak was due to meet the greek prime minister to discuss — amongst other things — the parthenon sculptures that we've been hoarding in the british museum for a couple of centuries. rishi cancelled last minute for no good reason and one greek newspaper came up with a great response:

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fun facts!

in UK law, it didn’t count as bestiality because it wasn’t alive, and it didn’t count as necrophilia because it wasn’t human

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It starts slowly at first. A food bank crops up inside your local mosque. You notice more sleeping bags on the walk to work. Over time, the signs seem to grow. A donation bin appears in Tesco for families who can’t afford soap or toothpaste. Terms such as “bed poverty” emerge in the news because we now need vocabulary to describe children who are so poor that they have to sleep on the floor. Then one day you read a statistic that somehow feels both shocking and wearily unsurprising: about 3.8 million people experienced destitution in the UK last year. That’s the equivalent of almost half the population of London being unable to meet their most basic needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.

It would be natural to call this a social emergency, but that would suggest a sense of urgency that our political class has rarely demonstrated. Poverty has long been the background noise in Westminster while “real issues” such as small boats and woke elites define the national conversation. Rishi Sunak is reportedly now lining up a tax cut for the wealthiest earners and inheritors, to win back upper-middle-class voters. Meanwhile, food banks have become such an established fixture in Britain that they have been left to breed ever more horrifying iterations like “warm banks” and “baby banks” with barely a whisper.

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What is your Hogwarts house??

they wouldn't let me attend. i'd burn that hell-hole to the ground SO FAST

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Entirely predictable. Times are hard. The rich are having it off.

Join the fun

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Its face... I honestly find some of them hard to look at

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Stewart Lee on Russell Brand

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