Yesterday I was reading the Guardian newspaper it had a article about the falling number of pubs in the UK. In Chesterfield we have witnesseds the closure of the Abacus bar , Pacific, Royal Oak ( though set to reopen but has changed hands a lot in recent months) Iv been told the Red Lion down Brampton has closed. Personally I can't see the trade ever recovering to be honest people have become used to drinking at home and if they smoke can do so freely in the comfort of their own home but I believe it makes people less sociable and isolated . Bar prices need reducing and the Pubcos hold over the trade needs to be broken for a remote chance for the trade to survive but that's easier said than done with bankers who have millions of investment in the Pubcos. Just recently here in Arbrouthorne the Arbrouthorne Hotel has been reduced to rubble along with the Elm Tree both once popular haunts their demise its symbolic of the state of the trade.