{"id":1278916,"date":"2022-02-07T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278916"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:23:37","slug":"1229-year-old-ye-old-fighting-cocks-pub-survived-war-famine-and-the-plague-closed-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1229-year-old-ye-old-fighting-cocks-pub-survived-war-famine-and-the-plague-closed-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"1,229 Year-Old \u2018Ye Old Fighting Cocks\u2019 Pub Survived War, Famine, And The Plague: Closed By COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F1229-year-old-ye-old-fighting-cocks-pub-survived-war-famine-and-the-plague-closed-by-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-674688974-scaled-e1644260833637-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The oldest pub in England, which may be as much as 1,229 years old, has been forced to close down due to COVID-19 hardships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/07\/uk-ye-olde-fighting-cocks-st-albans-closing-covid\/\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cthe pandemic and the government\u2019s public health restrictions squeezed [Christo Tofalli\u2019s] business until he couldn\u2019t meet its financial obligations.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tofalli took over the lease of the pub in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBefore the pandemic hit, the escalating business rates and taxations we were managing meant trading conditions were extremely tough,\u201d Tofalli wrote on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YeOldeFightingCocks\/posts\/4651473991569177\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cbut we were able to survive and were following an exciting five-year plan and were hopeful for the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHowever the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating and our already tight profit margins gave us no safety net,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Washington Post added that Mitchells &amp; Butlers, one of the largest operators of restaurants, bars and pubs in Britain, said in a statement: \u201cWe can confirm that sadly our tenants at Ye Old Fighting Cocks have appointed administrators [for the insolvency process] but can reassure locals that this is not the end for the pub.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are currently exploring all opportunities for the site\u2019s future and hope to reopen the pub under new management as soon as possible,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first brick of the pub was laid as early as 793 A.D. in St. Albans, England, \u201cnear the ruins of an ancient Roman city well before the United Kingdom was formed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Closure due to COVID-19 hardships will be made more painful when we consider the other natural disasters the pub has lived through, including famines (1235, 1315-1317, 1623-1624, 1740-1741, 1816, 1845-1849), bubonic plague (<\/span>1347-1350, 1563, 1592-93, 1603, 1625, 1665-1666), influenza pandemics and epidemics (<span>1557, 1729, 1775-1776, 1836-1837, 1847-1848, 1889-1890, 1918, 1957-1958, 1968-1970, 2009-2010), cholera (<\/span><span>1831-1833, 1848-1854, 1865-1873), s<\/span>mallpox (1837-1840, 1870-1875),&nbsp;<span>HIV\/AIDS (1979-present), as well as countless winter storms and heat waves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Not only that, the pub also saw over 1,000 years of conflict, including the Civil War, two World Wars, and the American Revolutionary War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pub has also survived multiple economic recessions and depressions, including the Great Slump of 1430-1490, the Long Depression of 1873-1896, the Great Depression of 1930-1931, and the Great Recession of 2008-2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And after over a millennia in business, it was COVID-19 which brought the pub to its knees.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is with great sadness that I have to announce that today, after a sustained period of extremely challenging trading conditions, YOFC Ltd has gone into administration,\u201d Tofalli said. \u201cAlong with my team, I have tried everything to keep the pub going. However, the past two years have been unprecedented for the hospitality industry, and have defeated all of us who have been trying our hardest to ensure this multi-award-winning pub could continue trading into the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt goes without saying I am heartbroken: this pub has been so much more than just a business to me, and I feel honored to have played even a small part in its history. I am even more heartbroken for my incredible team and the wider Fighting Cocks family,\u201d Tofalli said later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span> @ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest pub in England, which may be as much as 1,229 years old, has been forced to close down due to COVID-19 hardships.According to The Washington Post, \u201cthe pandemic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}