Pub of the Week: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk, Fence

Ye Olde Sparrowhawk, in Wheatley Lane Road, has recently been taken over by new owners and has returned with a knock-out menu.

We caught up with supervisor Jamie Wyld.

Introduce yourself

My name here is Jamie Wyld, and I joined the pub at the back end of September.

How’s it going?

It has been very good, it is a lovely place to work with lovely customers.

A roast at Ye Olde Sparrowhawk (Image: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk)

How would you describe the pub?

It is more on the food side, but it is a popular drinking pub for the bitters and things like that.

There are a lot of people who have been coming for many years who are connoisseurs of bitters, who enjoy the beers here.

The pub has four fireplaces (Image: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk)

What is the food like?

It is a varied menu. Since changing hands, a new menu was made, and you have your pub food, like your fish and chips and your pies, but also more refined things like prawn linguini, and we have specials each week as well as roasts on a Sunday.

So quite a variety of different things.

Do you host any events?

We did a quiz before, and it is something we are looking to bring back. We also host funerals and other parties.

The venue hosts parties and events (Image: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk)

Do you have a beer garden?

It is quite big, we have one at the back and one at the front. We also offer overnight lodgings for campervans.

READ MORE: The Darwen pub whose pool team celebrates with pyrotechnic displays

READ MORE: A Laneshawbridge pub with a knock-out menu just awarded AA rosette

What breweries are you using?

We use Bowland Brewery, Timothy Taylor, and we have our own house beers.

It offers a mixture of pub classics as well as refined cooking (Image: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk)

How would you describe the interiors?

Cosy. It is an old pub style, dark oak, we have four fireplaces here, and it’s a nice cosy pub. We are known for our good atmosphere here as well, and people refer to us as the second living room.

Inside Ye Olde Sparrowhawk (Image: Ye Olde Sparrowhawk)

What is the best thing about working in a pub?

The people, the customers. The different conversations you have and to make people happy with the food and quality of everything. We are a dog-friendly pub, and I am a big dog lover, so that is great.

What is the best hangover cure?

Hair of the dog.