CAMRA celebrates pub interiors

Britain's most unique pub interiors are being celebrated thanks to a new website.

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has launched the site which features pubs which remain wholly or largely as constructed.

A host of interiors are featured from simple rural pubs to late-Victorian extravaganzas, from the genuinely old to the aggressively modern, from urban back-street boozers, through to suburban estate pubs and picture postcard rural idylls.

The site also has a link to CAMRA's national inventory of pubs whose interiors have remained intact for a long time and/or have features of exceptional historic or architectural importance, which includes 254 pubs.

Paul Ainsworth, chair of CAMRA's pub heritage group, said: "Most discerning pub-goers enjoy and appreciate unspoilt traditional pubs and we hope our website will help them find examples of such interiors both locally and on their travels. 

"We also hope that the site will highlight the importance of these interiors, given that they now represent a tiny fraction of the nation's pub stock. 

"Many are under real threat and once they're gone, they're gone.  They are there to be enjoyed but also need protection and CAMRA is fully committed to that cause."

The site also features a general overview of the heritage pub scene, a guide to pubs as listed buildings, a glossary of architectural terms and a list of "pubs in peril" - important interiors where the threat of unwanted development is very real.

The site also has information on pubs that are "at risk" in local areas.

For more information visit the site at www.heritagepubs.org.uk