one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
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This pubs is taken from the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, CAMRA’s pioneering effort to identify and help protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country | ||||||
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LANCASHIRE - Great Harwood, Victoria National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One St. Johns Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, BB6 7EP Tel: 01254 884810 Listed Status: Grade II Built 1905 by Alfred Nuttal – a near complete example of an early 20th century public house. The whole of the lobby bar area has floor to ceiling tiles as does the passageway and up the staircase to private quarters. The bar counter has tiled front and screens above all around it which still retain the lower panels that can move up and down. The bar back is original. Off the lobby bar area are five small rooms with the majority of their original fittings and doors with the room names in etched panels “Commercial Room’, “Parlour”, Public Kitchen””Bar Parlour”. There are slatted wood benches in two of them. A further small room at the end of the rear passageway has recently been brought into use and has an old wood surround fireplace and “Private’ etched panel in the top of the door. The area in the front right has some window glass panels “Jug Department” and “Smoke Room” moved from its original positions. There is a bowling green to the right of the pub no longer in use. The pub is known locally as the Butcher Brig after a now defunct slaughterhouse and an adjacent railway bridge. |
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