NowThen Magazine reports that claims made by Sheffield City Council (SCC) about the ‘collapse’ of a historic pub in the Castlegate area of the city centre were untrue.
NowThen Magazine writes:
….Before Christmas, SCC announced that they would need to demolish the Market Tavern on Exchange Street as it had deteriorated beyond repair. But local heritage campaigners secured a temporary reprieve for the building until midday on 10 January….
… until now, SCC have claimed that… the turret structure at the front of the building spontaneously collapsed at some point on 10 January…
NowThen has obtained a video taken by a member of the public at 12:44pm showing that demolition work had already begun…
Two decades of neglect
The former Market Tavern, which was built in its current form in 1914 but which had stood empty since it closed as a pub in 2006, was acquired by the city council in that same year using £457,000 of public money…
