Demolition of the former Queen’s Hotel pub on Scotland Street, just outside the city centre, began today, Friday, January 29.
The former pub, which closed in 1997, is being bulldozed along with the old Robert Neill & Co electrical wholesalers premises to create space for 229 apartments to be built by Rise Homes.
The pub opened in 1791 as the Queens Inn, it is understood, with the present building dating back to 1928.
Previous plans to convert the disused building into a massage parlour or to restore it as a pub while creating 126 apartments fell by the wayside before Rise Home’s £40 million plans for apartment blocks rising up to 10 storeys were approved.
These photos taken by The Star photographer Dean Atkins show demolition in progress, while photos previously taken by Urban Bloody Bear and shared to the 28 Days Later website show how it looked inside after years of dereliction.
6. £40 million apartments planned
The pub is being demolished to make way for 229 apartments Photo: Dean Atkins
7. Rooms revealed
Long-hidden rooms have been revealed during demolition of the abandoned Queens Hotel pub on Scotland Street Photo: Dean Atkins
8. All quiet
An abandoned stereo system inside the old Queens Hotel pub on Scotland Street Photo: Urban Bloody Bear