It will be last orders at a
popular Coventry pub at the end of this month when it closes for a £1
million refurbishment after being bought by a chain.
The City Arms in Earlsdon
Street, Earlsdon will not re-open until early next year as it is
transformed into a JD Wetherspoon pub.
It was taken over several
months ago when the Crowded House chain, which bought the City Arms
from Beefeater, collapsed.
JD Wetherspoon bought the pub
and allowed it to stay open in its old guise.
Now all the formalities over
the sale have been completed, the pub will shut to be kitted out in
the Wetherspoon style
The national chain, which
opened its first Coventry pub, the Flying Standard, in the city centre
several months ago, is planning to extend the pub.
But a spokesman said that it
would not have its name changed.
He said:
“It
is unusual for us to keep a pub open when we take it over, but we
have in this case. It is planned that the pub will close by the end
of July and will be ready in 2001.”
