'There had been a group of regulars who had wanted to save it but presumably they couldn't gather the necessary.'
Yes there was! Good bunch of chaps. this is my local pub and i loved it dearly and went nearly everyday. I have been to the area twice, since its close, meaning i no longer use the shops etc. On both of the occasions i have visited the area since the close i have noticed a considerable amount of deteriation. i didn't even feel that comfortable parking my car there because the car park is full of youths booting a football at windows and revving their scooters.
There is a remarkable 'bretherin' community around basiwch/hillcroft park/walton. All very strange, all very reclusive, all down right unsociable. The word of those in the know who used to be true Lynton tavern regulars is that the bretherin did not buy the pub to worship in it, far from it. The clever buggers bought it to use as 'leverage' against the council. Because if they own the car park then they could, in theory, brick it up and people using the shops would have no where to park. So they would be literally levering the council in to giving them somewhere where they can build a place of worship for there suprisingly large community.
All of their houses must be in excess of half a million pounds and they've been extended and seem to be breeding grounds forthe sublime and ridiculous. i think the council have made a bit of a boob of this one if what i've been told is correct... But who knows. I am a lot fitter cause i have to walk further to the pub now though
. I just hope that maybe if they do eventually get what they want and it does come up for sale again someone will buy it and turn it back in to a pub again.
