The historic Air Balloon pub will serve its last pint at 5 pm on New Year’s Eve as it's being demolished after more than 220 years 🍺😢 It's making way for a ‘safer’ dual carriageway along the A417 in Gloucestershire.
A historic pub at a notorious accident blackspot is being demolished after more than 220 years.Plans to change the roundabout where the pub is located were finally green-lit in November after decades of talks.
But the £460m upgrade scheme means it’s curtains for the beloved boozer in Birdlip, which is thought to have opened in 1784.It prompted a flood of tributes from punters, including the wife of late actor John Challis. Carol Challis tweeted: ‘Goodbye to the Air Balloon or the Air ‘alloon as John used to call it after the B fell off one year.‘Finally there is to be a new road but the pub has to be demolished to make way. On our way to London we passed it hundreds of times. Progress? Sad news.’It sits on a roundabout linking Gloucester with Cirencester, Swindon and Oxford.The new ‘missing link’ project will bypass the Air Balloon roundabout to improve traffic flow.
Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown told the BBC the decision was ‘fantastic news’ when it was announced. He said: ‘It will bring growth and investment to Gloucestershire, more jobs, less environmental damage from stationary cars, and it will improve safety.’
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