Lost Burnley pubs

[FCBurnley]

White horse padiham

Went there on opening night !!

[Inchy]

I started going out in town in the mid 2000s and Burnley was always rammed Friday Saturday night. Thursdays were also quite busy and I remember going into work hungover a few times.

Back then there was spoons on Manchester road (now something else)
The original paradise island
Smacks (still going strong)
Posh (sticky carpets and the worlds worst DJ)
Pharos (think it’s still going)
Walkabout (now something else)
Lava ignite (used to sneak in at lest 50% of the time)

[HitchinClaret]

Where in Hitchin are you Hitchinclaret?

Moved to Pirton in June (there’s a Turf Moor Cottage in the village but haven’t met the owner yet).

I'm not far from Pinehill Hospital. Nice place but may look to get more for my money by moving further out if working from home continues!

[Loyalclaret]

Pharos has a different name but is still open as Bees Knees, owned by an UTC poster with The Turf, BB11/Coal yard I think.

Sam's Bar/zanzibar, Swiss corner, Sidewalk, club 53, place at the bottom of the bus station now a dentist, original concert artists, Mill bar (pretty certain there was another on same side street?), little white horse/fluid, romeo & juliet (now something else), Panama ane mean cats, millennium, the works/lava ignite - all about the same time Inchy.

In Nelson it's easy to name the handful left

[The Enclosure]

Not sure if the Sun Inn at Briercliffe has been mentioned, had some great weekends in there when Toots was the landlord. Live bands most weekends.

[mikeS]

The Hop.

The rest don't come close.

[ClaretAL]

Another 1 to my list is The Irish League, used to go there before and after every match, great football pub, gutted when they closed it.

[ŽižkovClaret]

The Manor Barn. Might as well have grown up there!

Decent quiz night that and 50p for a decent portion of whatever needed using up from the weekend

[ŽižkovClaret]

Never got used to not passing the Towneley Arms on the way over top bar; it used to be a beacon on a cold winters travel home as usual once it became a meal venue it lost its character and couldn’t survive when the Chef retired I believe.

And right at the top the Deerplay (but that isn’t Burnley).

Suspect the drink driving laws ****** that one

[ŽižkovClaret]

Pub on Glen View Road used to be a decent boozer. Demolished so they could build an old folks home and last time i went past it was still bare land.

What a load of old shite

[Herts Clarets]

I'm not far from Pinehill Hospital. Nice place but may look to get more for my money by moving further out if working from home continues!

Not a million miles from me, I am in Stotfold.

[Johma]

Went there on opening night !!

Used to meet there for away games

[ClaretTony]

Pub on Glen View Road used to be a decent boozer. Demolished so they could build an old folks home and last time i went past it was still bare land.

What a load of old shite

It was demolished because kids were getting in and it had become dangerous. There were considerations for an old folks home but it don’t think it got that far.

The Bull & Butcher (or where it stood) is to become a nursing home next year.

[Mala591]

It’s a bit strange building a nursing home in one of the coldest and windiest areas of Burnley and directly next to a very busy, noisy road. Just the opposite of what I’d think for a new nursing home.

[aggi]

Solved

It was the New Albion initially and was then the Hameldon and the Running Pump but I don't know which order.

Pretty sure in that order (at least I don't remember it as the New Albion). I used to go there when it was the Running Pump. Had a Geordie landlord called Terry who just spent all day drinking whisky behind the bar. Had a very relaxed view on things like legal drinking age, last orders, etc.

[Mala591]

Getting back to real ale pubs, Burnley town centre seems to be going backwards whereas ‘competing’ towns are significantly improving. Rawtenstall, Hebden Bridge, Skipton, Sowerby Bridge etc
I used to enjoy a pint in the Bobbin or the Ministry, they’ve gone as well.
Only Clitheroe and Todmorden are struggling for comfortable and friendly real ale pubs alongside Burnley - imo of course.

[ClaretTony]

Pretty sure in that order (at least I don't remember it as the New Albion). I used to go there when it was the Running Pump. Had a Geordie landlord called Terry who just spent all day drinking whisky behind the bar. Had a very relaxed view on things like legal drinking age, last orders, etc.

Sadly, I best remember it as the New Albion. If it were still a pub, and with the Bull & Butcher gone, it would the closest to where I live.

[basil6345789]

Suspect the drink driving laws ****** that one

Not to mention Joe's magnetic personality.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Used to be a bar in front of my flat here open til 5am every day. Very handy when i used to do 11pm finishes

[Bfc]

After the Footballers closed, it became a showroom for Premier Gas. One of the partners took the internal pub door and put into the entrance of his newly bought cottage. The top half was frosted glass and etched in clear glass, "Footballers Arms".

A couple of clubs worthy of a mention, are the Ribble on Parker Lane, opposite the Police Station.
A new Police Superintendant had just started working there. He noted people going into the Club outside licensing hours and told a Sergeant, to make sure the Club wasn't selling alcohol. Sgt replied, we know they're selling alcohol, but we know the burgelry and other crime numbers will be down, while those drinking are in there and for the others, we can rule them out of incidents.
The Face Winds on North St was another where you had to be known, or known by someone before you got in, via the backyard gate, for out of hours drinking.
Monday was popular, for Miners and Builders, on benders, who had been drinking all weekend and had not gone back to work.

I remember being sat in the Britannia and the Corporation and seeing someone finish a Pint, then turn the glass upside down on the table. Next thing that person went to the toilet followed by someone else. The 2 of them fought and the winner coming out, proud as punch, followed by the loser. It happened a lot. Nobody intervened, as they would've been in trouble, with those around the bar.

[Polesworth]

Apologies for the quality of these pictures of pictures that were in the Ministry of Ale. I took them in 2017 but I think they reflected the status of Burnley pubs at an earlier date. The blurry pictures will bring back memories for many on here.

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[Polesworth]

And another

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[HeatonMoorClaret]

https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/burnley.html

[ebby]

The Hop.

The rest don't come close.

Agree. Had some great night there in the early to mid seventies.

[burnmark]

Has The Borough been mentioned - just down from Manchester Road Station and now ‘Chocstop’? Opened my eyes on my solitary visit as a 16/17 year old.

[burnmark]

Used to love going to The Fighting Cocks as a kid in the summer. Spent hours playing football on the 5 a side pitch next to the beer garden.

[Terrier]

Obviously we will all know people on here but not realise who they are but my two are staiola because if he went in the bulls head i more than likely know him and the other is turbo 5 because i went on acci rd in the same period and also got on the bus to the same boozers.
Feel sorry for todays kids that don't know tap rooms, met some real characters in them especially in the alma on acci rd also feel sorry for us old uns as tap rooms were places for a good natter, few lonely old chaps then, just head for the tap room.
Also in my view the bull and butcher was finished when the got rid of the small rooms and opened it up like a barn.

[ClaretTony]

Obviously we will all know people on here but not realise who they are but my two are staiola because if he went in the bulls head i more than likely know him and the other is turbo 5 because i went on acci rd in the same period and also got on the bus to the same boozers.
Feel sorry for todays kids that don't know tap rooms, met some real characters in them especially in the alma on acci rd also feel sorry for us old uns as tap rooms were places for a good natter, few lonely old chaps then, just head for the tap room.
Also in my view the bull and butcher was finished when the got rid of the small rooms and opened it up like a barn.

Tap rooms - my first local was the Park View (long before it was extended). If you went in the Tap Room the beer was cheaper (a penny I think) and you got waiter service from a bloke called John Wilkinson.

[XDS]

Brilliant tap room In Park view CT, John Wilkinson a bit before my time but some real characters in there and they really looked after their own.

[ClaretTony]

Brilliant tap room In Park view CT, John Wilkinson a bit before my time but some real characters in there and they really looked after their own.

It was a proper old local pub back then. It had a small room with two tables just as you went in (known as the Little Room), the bar area, the Tap Room, which was men only, and when the brewery bought the house next door for the tenants they opened their previous living quarters up as a darts room.

You are right, full of characters in the tap room and in my day the landlord was Michael McGivern.

[longsidetrumpet]

It was a proper old local pub back then. It had a small room with two tables just as you went in (known as the Little Room), the bar area, the Tap Room, which was men only, and when the brewery bought the house next door for the tenants they opened their previous living quarters up as a darts room.

You are right, full of characters in the tap room and in my day the landlord was Michael McGivern.

Michael presumably later at the Old Duke. Played football with his son, also Michael

[Jakubclaret]

Concise & artists club just at the side of Barclays Bank wasn’t a bad watering hole albeit not a pub back in the day, not sure if it’s still open with living away from the area.

[Vintage Claret]

The Falcon
Bojangles

There used to be one where Mecca Bingo is/was in the early 80's -City Limits?

[PhiladelphiaChris]

City limits was where the Talbot is or was.

[Targetman]

Agree. Had some great night there in the early to mid seventies.

Usually wearing your Ben Sherman Ebby!

Can you buy them in Australia?

[ClaretTony]

Michael presumably later at the Old Duke. Played football with his son, also Michael

Yes, the same one. Top bloke.

[Loyalclaret]

Concise & artists club just at the side of Barclays Bank wasn’t a bad watering hole albeit not a pub back in the day, not sure if it’s still open with living away from the area.

The building was knocked down to make The Mix, now Astoria which is a great restaurant

[Dark Cloud]

The Crown! (Now Clinton's Cards!!) Only went in once. Bet not many remember that!!

[Barlickclaret]

The Crown! (Now Clinton's Cards!!) Only went in once. Bet not many remember that!!

Was it called the crown before empress grill? Or is that a different place.

[Dark Cloud]

Was it called the crown before empress grill? Or is that a different place.

Really not sure about that. My first thought is Empress was a different place, but others may know better.

[basil6345789]

The building was knocked down to make The Mix, now Astoria which is a great restaurant

Can't get used to the name Astoria, when that used to be a Rawtenstall Night Club, where you went to get your head kicked-in!

[ClaretTony]

Was it called the crown before empress grill? Or is that a different place.

I knew it as the Empress Grill

[basil6345789]

There may well have been an old pub approx there prior to the town centre demolition/rebuild?

[Vintage Claret]

City limits was where the Talbot is or was.

Ah, yes, you're right it was.

Wonder what the one I'm thinking about was called then, used to be an American diner type thing next door to it if remember rightly

[BLH_Claret]

There may well have been an old pub approx there prior to the town centre demolition/rebuild?

The old Empress Hotel was demolished in the town centre renovation and replaced with Empress bar and grill in the building which is now Clinton’s Cards. I believe it was at the Empress that Jimmy McIlroy was lodged when he first came to Burnley as a lad.

[grapidianclaret]

Not a Burnley pub, but The Red Rock heading over to Sabden.
We used to have meals there back in the day, along with a few beers.

[Barlickclaret]

Coachmakers and Prince Albert they were around where Halfords is now.

[ebby]

Usually wearing your Ben Sherman Ebby!

Can you buy them in Australia?

Yep, got heaps in my wardrobe, but to hot to wear them at the moment. 42C today & its going to be 44C on Boxing Day’

[RingoMcCartney]

The Stanley , Burnley Wood. Often used to go in there for a prematch pint of Moorhouses which was really well looked after. Little gem of a, blink and you'll miss it, pub.

[basil6345789]

I knew it as the Empress Grill

Just consulted Eddy "The Oracle" Rawlinson.
Prior to the redevelopment there stood the magnificent Empress Hotel. Used by visiting businessmen as well as local people. Superb building.