WORK has started to clear out the former Pitchers pub in Blackburn town centre.
The eyesore pub has been sold and is to be redeveloped as a gourmet burger restaurant.
A West Yorkshire businessman bought the dilapidated Pitchers bar in Salford, Blackburn, for more than £200,000 and his new up-market eaterie will create 25 jobs.
The building will be transformed into 'Frankies Burgers and Dessert Parlour' and could reopen later this year, as revealed by the Lancashire Telegraph last month.
Pitchers closed in December 2010 and had become a blight on the regeneration of the town centre as the new £5 million bus station opposite and the £35 million Cathedral Quarter rose around it.
After failing to reach its reserve price of £250,000 at auction in December, it was sold privately by estate agents Trevor Dawson for a value believed to be close to the highest offer of £230,000.
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