The Mill Hill Hotel, Mill Hill, Blackburn

Official site of The Mill Hill Hotel - www.thwaites.co.uk

Official site of The Mill Hill Hotel - www.thwaites.co.uk

The Mill Hill Hotel now sells Real Ale, Lancaster Bomber, Nutty Black, Wainwrights. Holds regular events. Sports TV. Free Wi-Fi. And now has a fully equipted catering kitchen! So pub lunches are now on the menu! Yummy!

My 2003 Good Pub Guide describes the Globe & Ale House as a “small low ceilinged tavern with lots of old pictures, artifacts and an enthusiastic helpful landlord offering at least 4 ales”. Somewhere along the lines it all went to pot then. Ales seem to be a bit of a lucky dip as to availability and when I did pluck up the enthusiasm to enter during one of its quiter moments, all I found was a poor quality Old Speckled Hen. The other 2 pumps were off (they also appeared to be Greene King IPA and Abbott although this isn't actually a Greene King pub to my knowledge). The interior has been ripped apart in an unsympathetic refurbishment (presumably when the Ale House moniker also disappeared) and only a remnant of a window pane near the front doorway remains from any of its traditional décor or furnishings. Plasmas come at you from all angles but it is compettion with the music - either show the match or play the music – not both please! The only thing of note is an old newspaper front page but this is now concealed by a fruit machine. You can tell where the priorities lie in this place. On a Friday and Saturday night the place is crawling with meat heads and disco dollies but the general public on the street are kept safe by the bouncers. A total waste of what was once probably a half decent pub and out of the 50 odd pubs I visited during the week, this was certainly not one of the better ones.

Thwaites pub in between the suburbs of Witton and Mill Hill. A large impressive pub from the outside and tidy inside, but despite the Thwaites ownership it sells no real ale and the beer chioce is Thwaites keg beers and drab big brand lagers.