The Bishop Bonner pub by the former Taylor Walker Brewery, established in 1872. Years after the war, the council demolished and rebuilt western Bonner Steet in 1975, it was due to be pulled down along with all the old shops and terraced houses but because the pub was popular, it was decided to not go ahead. Their for it remained as the only surviving building in an otherwise mostly redeveloped area. In the 1970s and 1980s, the pub maintain close links to British boxing but closed in 1997 and was converted to residential use.[1]
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