The BellInn

On the second of July 2013, five hundred and thirty-six of its customers, musicians and staff bought their pub — the largest community buyout of a pub Britain had then seen — and the Bell has run as a co-operative free house on Walcot Street ever since, with shareholders reported to include Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel and Michael Eavis. Five regular ales and changing guests from local micro-breweries hold the bar, and free live music runs several nights a week — jazz, blues, folk and roots — with the Walcot Vinyl Collective on the decks and an open mic in the calendar. Nobody's brand, nobody's estate: the regulars own the till.