A Bath pub with a long tradition as a live music venue has been forced to reduce its trading hours because of a lack of customers.
Ye Olde Farmhouse, in Lansdown, has long been a prominent name on the city's music scene, but has struggled in recent years.
It is owned by brewery Wadworth and the firm's sales and marketing director Paul Sullivan said the pub was struggling.
He said: "The tenants are finding things a bit tough.
"It used to be a strong music pub, but one of the guys who previously ran it died and since then it has been a bit of a challenge."
Mr Sullivan said Wadworth was working with the tenants to see what could be done to make the pub more popular with customers and said at this stage everyone was committed to keeping it open.
When asked if local people needed to use the pub if they wanted to stop it closing, he said: "If a pub isn't being run the way people want it then they won't use it.
"As with all these things if the pub doesn't do enough business, then the tenants phone us up and tell us they can't make ends meet."
He added: "At the moment we are working with them and we hope it doesn't come to the stage where we have to close the pub."
Meanwhile the Metropolitan pub, in James Street West, has also closed its doors.
The pub was run by brewers Marston's but its contract came to an end earlier this month and has been handed back to the owner Punch Taverns.
Punch said: "The Metropolitan is temporarily closed and work is under way for it to reopen in the near future."
Elsewhere in Bath, regulars are battling to keep the Richmond Arms in Lansdown open after a planning application was lodged to turn it into a home.
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