Revidge Run News Today

Blackburn may be unrecognisable by the end of the year as exciting projects await for the people, places and communities that make it thrive

A FORMER inn, once part of an iconic East Lancashire pub crawl, it to become a family home.

TWO creators of Facebook groups celebrating pubs in Blackburn in their heyday took a Covid-secure walk along a famous former pub crawl in the town. Last year, the Lancashire Telegraph reported how Stephen Hughes, licensee and founder of Blackburn and Darwen pubs (Past and Present), and Richie Pull of the Closed Pubs of Blackburn groups visited some of the old pubs. But recently they took a trip down memory lane looking back on the well-known Revidge Run. Stephen said: “Myself and Rich...

MORE than 50 people attended a virtual meeting to rally behind the tenants of a pub who could be evicted in March. Tenants Sharon and David Halstead, from the Wilpshire Hotel, Whalley Road, Wilpshire, had approached owners Enterprise Inns (EI Group) to change their lease. They tried to convert their tied tenancy to a ‘free of tie’ arrangement in line with the terms of the Pubs Code, which requires the pub operators to offer a ‘market rent’-only option to tenant landlords and landl...