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Blackburn town centre pub to be opened as an Irish pub
4:59pm Thursday 8th December 2011 in News
GREEN THEME The Jubilee being painted
A TOWN centre pub has been transformed and is set to reopen under a new name.
The Jubilee, in Blakey Moor, had a troubled history and was well known for being one of the town’s ‘rougher’ pubs.
In February last year, a man was arrested after having been seen dropping a gun on the dancefloor of the venue.
And in 2008 police closed the pub after a mass brawl involving 30 pre-Christmas revellers.
But the pub has been taken over by husband and wife team, Paul and Michelle Corrigan and has been turned into an Irish-themed bar that will also serve food, called Corrigan’s Irish Pub.
Mr Corrigan said: “It’s about getting away from The Jubilee and keeping away from its past as much as possible.
“That’s why we’ve gone for the Irish theme as it’s completely different.
“We’ve redecorated it completely, painted it green and given it a really good clean. It’s miles different from before with traditional homemade food and I really want to push our cask ales.”
Corrigan’s Irish Pub is due to open on Friday, and will open every day from 10am, until 11pm, Monday to Thursday and midnight Friday to Saturday. Food will be served until 9pm.
The change comes as two other Blackburn pubs have been re-let following interim management by Winterhill Leisure.
Also enjoying a new lease of life is the Aqueduct Inn in Bolton Road, which had been closed for a number of weeks, and the Lord Raglan in Kings Road, that had been on the brink of closure when Winterhill Leisure negotiated a support package with Daniel Thwaites earlier this year.
Winterhill Leisure, a Blackburn-based national interim pub management firm specialising in managing distressed pub businesses, negotiated new landlords to come in, with Thwaites brewery.
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Your ferret stinks
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6:19pm Thu 8 Dec 11
ossylad wrote:Brings back great memories of the Barbary Coast! had my first pint down the steps in the dirty duck when ken pilling was on the door!
brfcianbrfc wrote:Margo saw to that,just flashed her assets and everyone behaved!!!
I hope it does well but I think Blackburn has had its day. I drank around that area Vulcan, Jubilee, Peel etc and they were good pubs. I dont remember lots of aggro though.
However i still think there is room for another good quality pub that serves good food and thwaites cask beer in the town, simply because theres not much choice after the postal order?
Far East Calling
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6:19pm Thu 8 Dec 11
NICEONESUNSHINE
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6:36pm Thu 8 Dec 11
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What an original idea!
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Who wants to drink in an ersatz Irish themed pub?.....Students possibly??
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I give up....
Livesey rover
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6:37pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Your ferret stinks
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6:58pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Far East Calling wrote:The Top Hat! fanastic memories,but just one thing!!! Jonny Knight the doorman!! You knew where you where with him!
Has brfcianbrfc says l also used to have a few drinks in that area and no problems Margo were running the Jubilee with John then, its the problem with law and order now the monkeys get away with murder, l worked in the Top Hat in them days and if any body got out of order it was out, usually down the stairs and we tried to make sure the did not miss a step, it made people think twice about casing trouble. good luck to the new venture l hope it works out for them. l will have a drink there in June when l am bark if its still open.
I'm sure if this pub is mananged properly and students get a good meal in there at a reasonable cost, along, with drinkers that want to go somewhere else to try a cask beer wouldn't work.
Good luck because i'll be coming in for a pint.
twinkerthescout
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7:46pm Thu 8 Dec 11
makaveli96
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7:56pm Thu 8 Dec 11
ghost of sceptic
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8:00pm Thu 8 Dec 11
GetRealUIdiot
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8:03pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Your ferret stinks wrote:God, the Dirty Duck, Vulcan and Jubilee bring back loads of memories! Do any of you remember the Clarence in the precinct and Coconut Grove (think it was the Regent 1st)? Bloodyhell, how time flies!
ossylad wrote:Brings back great memories of the Barbary Coast! had my first pint down the steps in the dirty duck when ken pilling was on the door!
brfcianbrfc wrote:Margo saw to that,just flashed her assets and everyone behaved!!!
I hope it does well but I think Blackburn has had its day. I drank around that area Vulcan, Jubilee, Peel etc and they were good pubs. I dont remember lots of aggro though.
However i still think there is room for another good quality pub that serves good food and thwaites cask beer in the town, simply because theres not much choice after the postal order?
Theo
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8:32pm Thu 8 Dec 11
DJ_Jaybee
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8:33pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Theo
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8:38pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Always full at lunchtime with the students and at weekend from opening to closing. Never any trouble until it got a bad name with the dibble who caused the worst trouble the pub ever saw when they stormed the pub on April 1st 2001.
Nobody ever brings that up when talking about a pub with a trobled past.
Ask the people of Blackburn for their Jubilee memories and it wont be of a troubled pub it will be of a pub that was packed at weekends and a pub that everybody used to be made welcome if you were a local or not.
'Kean on getting out..!
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8:42pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Far East Calling wrote:I remember the top hat and the painful exit was when you never hit a step haha. 'thats when you had p1ssed off Cyril..And i did that on a regular basis
Has brfcianbrfc says l also used to have a few drinks in that area and no problems Margo were running the Jubilee with John then, its the problem with law and order now the monkeys get away with murder, l worked in the Top Hat in them days and if any body got out of order it was out, usually down the stairs and we tried to make sure the did not miss a step, it made people think twice about casing trouble. good luck to the new venture l hope it works out for them. l will have a drink there in June when l am bark if its still open.
Hello Cyril..love u to bits.
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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8:57pm Thu 8 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..! wrote:Many happy memories of the Top hat as well lol
Far East Calling wrote:I remember the top hat and the painful exit was when you never hit a step haha. 'thats when you had p1ssed off Cyril..And i did that on a regular basis
Has brfcianbrfc says l also used to have a few drinks in that area and no problems Margo were running the Jubilee with John then, its the problem with law and order now the monkeys get away with murder, l worked in the Top Hat in them days and if any body got out of order it was out, usually down the stairs and we tried to make sure the did not miss a step, it made people think twice about casing trouble. good luck to the new venture l hope it works out for them. l will have a drink there in June when l am bark if its still open.
Hello Cyril..love u to bits.
juanbbien
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9:01pm Thu 8 Dec 11
'Kean on getting out..!
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9:12pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Michael@ClitheroeSin70's & 80's were great fun sometimes we sit in the dark just to remember the power cuts.
ce58 wrote:
'Kean on getting out..! wrote:Many happy memories of the Top hat as well lol
Far East Calling wrote:I remember the top hat and the painful exit was when you never hit a step haha. 'thats when you had p1ssed off Cyril..And i did that on a regular basis
Has brfcianbrfc says l also used to have a few drinks in that area and no problems Margo were running the Jubilee with John then, its the problem with law and order now the monkeys get away with murder, l worked in the Top Hat in them days and if any body got out of order it was out, usually down the stairs and we tried to make sure the did not miss a step, it made people think twice about casing trouble. good luck to the new venture l hope it works out for them. l will have a drink there in June when l am bark if its still open.
Hello Cyril..love u to bits.
MerlinTheVoiceofReason2
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9:16pm Thu 8 Dec 11
hairy mary
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9:23pm Thu 8 Dec 11
happycyclist
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10:38pm Thu 8 Dec 11
TFFox
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10:46pm Thu 8 Dec 11
TFFox
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10:59pm Thu 8 Dec 11
Theo wrote:you are right their theo it was a very busy pub.never had any problem with drugs , under age or fighting well not untill they sued the police and won !
The Jubilee was the best pub in Blackburn for over 20 years when run by Tom & Linda Fox.
Always full at lunchtime with the students and at weekend from opening to closing. Never any trouble until it got a bad name with the dibble who caused the worst trouble the pub ever saw when they stormed the pub on April 1st 2001.
Nobody ever brings that up when talking about a pub with a trobled past.
Ask the people of Blackburn for their Jubilee memories and it wont be of a troubled pub it will be of a pub that was packed at weekends and a pub that everybody used to be made welcome if you were a local or not.
Livesey rover
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11:52pm Thu 8 Dec 11
louderfasterlonger
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12:02am Fri 9 Dec 11
DJ_Jaybee wrote:Don't forget peel... had my first pint there at 14 after peepers then last bus back to Darwen, times haven't changed THAT much !
Vulcan, Jubilee, Balaclava, Grapes, Napier, Borough + Peepers was great.
buzzinfly
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1:26am Fri 9 Dec 11
DJ_Jaybee wrote:St.Johns tavern, bottom of the whirlly gig.
Vulcan, Jubilee, Balaclava, Grapes, Napier, Borough + Peepers was great.
Stone Island
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2:09am Fri 9 Dec 11
I run a pub in Blackburn myself, but thankfully it's not in the centre. I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole. The last time I ventured down there, it was full of riff-raff and dossers.
Having said that, I wish you well with this venture. Good luck.
Heard a whisper tonight that Thwaites have sold The Fernhirst?
Joseph Yossarian
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8:22am Fri 9 Dec 11
happycyclist
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9:12am Fri 9 Dec 11
louderfasterlonger wrote:The last bus back to Darwen... double decker packed to the rafters! Happy days.
DJ_Jaybee wrote:Don't forget peel... had my first pint there at 14 after peepers then last bus back to Darwen, times haven't changed THAT much !
Vulcan, Jubilee, Balaclava, Grapes, Napier, Borough + Peepers was great.
TFFox
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10:00am Fri 9 Dec 11
Stone Island wrote:i dont think they are selling it but they are shutting for a refurb soon!
Brought back some great memories, reading those posts. Sadly, Blackburn's great nightlife is long gone. The Jubilee, was Blackburn's best town centre pub, by far, when it was run properly by Tom and Linda. But the Old Bill ruined all that.
I run a pub in Blackburn myself, but thankfully it's not in the centre. I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole. The last time I ventured down there, it was full of riff-raff and dossers.
Having said that, I wish you well with this venture. Good luck.
Heard a whisper tonight that Thwaites have sold The Fernhirst?
gudari
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11:10am Fri 9 Dec 11
MerlinTheVoiceofReasThat's going to be a tad difficult logistically I would have thought. Will they bus the clientele in from outside blackbum?
on2 wrote:
Don't these guys know that Irish pubs are so-last century? O'Neills is bad enough, definitely don't need another one. What Blackburn does need is a cracking real ale pub where they don't let the riffraff in.
dougsie
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11:38am Fri 9 Dec 11
Paul The Octopus Lives!
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1:15pm Fri 9 Dec 11
TFFox wrote:Hmmmmmmmm... you're not the Tom Fox mentioned are you "TFFox??" Referring to yourself in the third person to appear independant???
Theo wrote: The Jubilee was the best pub in Blackburn for over 20 years when run by Tom & Linda Fox. Always full at lunchtime with the students and at weekend from opening to closing. Never any trouble until it got a bad name with the dibble who caused the worst trouble the pub ever saw when they stormed the pub on April 1st 2001. Nobody ever brings that up when talking about a pub with a trobled past. Ask the people of Blackburn for their Jubilee memories and it wont be of a troubled pub it will be of a pub that was packed at weekends and a pub that everybody used to be made welcome if you were a local or not.you are right their theo it was a very busy pub.never had any problem with drugs , under age or fighting well not untill they sued the police and won !
Jerzei Balowski
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1:51pm Fri 9 Dec 11
dougsie wrote:I agree, Blackburn won't get back to being the great night out it was 10+ years ago. But I don't agree with your reasons. Previously all the utter scum were confined to Church Street, and the rest of us avoided it like the plague - everyone happy. As soon as the pond-life started migrating to the better areas, anyone with any sense decided to stay local, or head to somewhere decent like Preston, Whalley or Clitheroe. Can't see that changing with the opening of one pub, however decent it turns out to be.
i cannot see in the near future town centre pubs getting back to how it was a few years ago the prices are one of the main culprits but saying that the police havnt helped either or has margo grimshaw helped either with her barm ideas and closing down her pubs and clubs
juanbbien
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4:43pm Fri 9 Dec 11
Your ferret stinks
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6:06pm Fri 9 Dec 11
You made us laugh in the past Margo and are still doing it to this day, but please keep your coat on.
sallycinamon
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10:21pm Fri 9 Dec 11
TFFox
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10:22pm Fri 9 Dec 11
Paul The Octopus Lives! wrote:i am the person but not the writer . but i do know him as a regular. many years ago .
TFFox wrote:Hmmmmmmmm... you're not the Tom Fox mentioned are you "TFFox??" Referring to yourself in the third person to appear independant???
Theo wrote: The Jubilee was the best pub in Blackburn for over 20 years when run by Tom & Linda Fox. Always full at lunchtime with the students and at weekend from opening to closing. Never any trouble until it got a bad name with the dibble who caused the worst trouble the pub ever saw when they stormed the pub on April 1st 2001. Nobody ever brings that up when talking about a pub with a trobled past. Ask the people of Blackburn for their Jubilee memories and it wont be of a troubled pub it will be of a pub that was packed at weekends and a pub that everybody used to be made welcome if you were a local or not.you are right their theo it was a very busy pub.never had any problem with drugs , under age or fighting well not untill they sued the police and won !
bring back the good old days
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8:49am Sat 10 Dec 11
Haven't been in town for any sort of night out for some 15 yrs +. Now when I go into town during the day and pass some pubs, especially Ribby, it is frankly embarrassing to see the types that frequent these places.
God knows what it is like at night!
You couldn't get me down there if you paid me.
Its 'society' in general on display where the very worst is on view.
It started deteriorating around about 30 yrs or so ago.
I have lost count of the times my son came home from having a drink and had been threatened and assaulted by 'low life, brain deads'.
It is sad to see him not be able to just get dressed up and go for a good night out with mates and girlfriends.
Thats 'progress' for you.
wotever
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7:15pm Sat 10 Dec 11
juanbbien wrote:Happy days indeed, there were so many grat pubs in the 70s 80s I feel so sorry for the kids nowadays that don't have what I had, top acts up the Cav what a place and not forgetting the fantastic Mecca with the Alan Paul Set oh please take me back to those days
Yes it used to be a good night life in the late sixties in Blackburn,I used to go in the Clarence in the precinct it was the pub for the Mods then onto the Cavendish nightclub,were all the top groups/acts appeared,we used to know the doorman and we would nip out half through the night to the Yin-Kin Chinese across the road for a curry (no takaways in them days as such) and then back up the Cav till late,happy times
corrigansirishpub
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9:24pm Wed 14 Dec 11
The pub is open 7 days a week with food being served from 10am till 9pm from a large menu with something for everyone giving good value for money with all of our main meals being under £5 and children meals at £1.99. We are serving all the Irish classics such as homemade Irish stew with homemade soda bread or if you fancy a burger or full breakfast we have it all at Corrigan’s Irish pub. We also have a large variety of lagers, sprits, traditional cask ale, coffees and or course Guinness. We are showing live football and horse racing and have two pool tables, games machines and sheltered smoking area in our beer garden.
All we can ask is that you will give us a try and hope you enjoy the pub as much as we do. We will keep you updated on fourth coming events such as Irish singers or if any local bands/singer would like to get in touch please feel free to come down and speak to myself or one of the team.
Thanks
Michelle Corrigan and all the team at Corrigan’s Irish pub
TFFox
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2:03pm Thu 15 Dec 11
corrigansirishpub
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8:04pm Thu 15 Dec 11
brfcianbrfc says...
5:33pm Thu 8 Dec 11