It was estimated that in the first three months of the year more and more pubs closed for business in the UK.
An average of 50 pubs a month closed and last year, over the same first three months, the figure was just over 30.
Across Cumbria pubs are disappearing – taking on other uses, including private houses – as the drinking habits of the county, as elsewhere, are changing.
Cliff Rushforth was involved in the pub trade for over 50 years, brought up at the Nags Head in Workington and then taking on the licence when his father died in 1959.
John Walsh went for a chat with the now retired licensee about his time in the trade when he was the respected landlord of the Nags Head and then the Commercial.
You can here Cliff reminisce here…..
