As promised in my last post, I said I would Google the Market Tavern, Walsall to see how it was fairing. I’m afraid it’s not good news; it appears to have closed some years ago.
I mentioned I was refused a drink in the pub some 30+ years ago, because I was underage; I wasn’t, I was 19; a young 19 admittedly and on Rugby Tour, but it certainly didn’t deserve this fate!
I see a company called Edgeworth Street Ltd, submitted a planning application back in November 2009 for a Change of Use from a former public house with underground club to a retreat care home for people with learning disabilities and physical disabilities. The proposal included the landscaping of external areas to form a garden area.
I’m not sure what has happened with the application since or the future of the pub, but see as recently as October 2010 the pub was still closed.
