Another pub that was replaced after redevelopment?
Well, yes, but the redevelopment was a very long time ago. The large 1940s Submarine Bar, formerly Hills Road House, on this site was subsumed in to the Ashleaf Shopping Centre when it was built; and continued to operate as a similarly, if not even more vast venue until the financial crisis, at which time it reduced down to just the bar area - trading as Rory O'Connors
This closed, I believe, at the start of the pandemic; but reopened this years - ruining a nicely ticked off area of the map for me. So I had to head back.
What is still open is a medium sized single area bar; with exceptionally cheap Beamish (fiver).
Some of the rest of the Submarine still sits empty, which other bits have become a gym - an odd conversion that has afflicted a number of other huge pubs like Liz Delaneys (The Blacker) and the upper portion of the former Night Owls in Ranelagh; the ground floor being a Supervalu.
(The latter still features some of the artwork from its brief latter incarnation as Il Mondo; making me wonder if there's any Submarine related stuff left in this one)
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