Pubs in Shipley and Denholme are among those which have been put up for sale with a combined asking price of £1.5million after their management company went into administration.

Administrators working on behalf of West Yorkshire-based management company Deepclear have put the pubs on the market, sparking concerns about their future. They are: The Copper Kettle in Denholme; The Dog and Gun in Leeds Road, Shipley; The Moorfield Arms in Dick Lane, Cutler Heights, Bradford; The Station in Manchester Road, Bradford; The Old Duke William in Westgate Hill, Bradford; The Winston Churchill in Wakefield Road, Bradford.

A spokesman for administrators KPMG said the company’s directors appointed administrators after running into “financial difficulty” because of a drop in consumer spending affecting its turnover.

However, she said the company’s 26 pubs – all in Yorkshire – would carry on trading.

David Haigh, honorary president of the Bradford Inner City Licensees Association, said the administration was indicative of the pub trade struggling.

Mr Haigh, who owns Haigy’s in Lumb Lane, Manningham, Bradford, said: “I’m not surprised the holding company has gone into administration.

“The pub trade is on its knees and the Government is not doing anything to help. It blames the pubs for all society’s ills. They say we cause cancer because people smoke, we cause trouble, we cause binge drinking. Who are the Government going to blame when all the pubs are shut?”

He said he feared the pubs would be closed unless the group was sold as a going concern.

“If they sell them individually, some will disappear, without a doubt,” he said.

Bill Arnold, a spokesman for Bradford’s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), said: “The prospect of losing pubs is always sad because it is a community environment that you are losing. I hope some of these pubs can carry on.”

Howard Smith and Mark Firmin, of KPMG, have been appointed the joint administrators of Deepclear Ltd, based in Neville Street, Leeds.

The company went into administration in September last year. Commercial property agents Colliers CRE are handling the sale of the six pubs.

KPMG spokesman Alison Anderson said: “The directors appointed administrators after getting into financial difficulty due to a drop in consumer spending impacting on turnover.

“The administrators are trading the business, via the use of a management company for licensing reasons, while seeking a sale of the properties. The pubs are open for business as usual.”