Upstairs there are smashed basins and holes in the floor, net curtains hanging limply in depressing shreds.
Bernard Williamson, chairman of Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust, behind what was the main bar at the Iron Duke pub.
- Credit: Jess Coppings
The journey to preserve, restore, and re-use is likely to be long and costly, but for the former pub s new owners - Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust - the fighting spirit is strong.
Trust chairman Bernard Williamson said negotiations with its former owners Bourne Leisure had been going on for some years until they agreed to sell it to the trust - a developer of last resort - for £110,000.
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