Improvements “Millstone Inn” (PH) Blackley New Road and Mill Brow Blackley

The Millstone was one of Blackley's first beer houses, dating back to at least 1832 when it was described as a cottage and shop with a license to sell beer.  Wheater & Swales, later Swales, brewery took over in the 1880s.  It was a basic two-roomed Victorian pub on a steely sloping site at the junction of Mill Brow and Blackley New Road in Blackley.  Works by Hacking are assumed to relate to the extension to the rear providing direct access from Mill Brow to the cellar area. Built of red Accrington brick and stone dressings this was a typical Hacking pub design of the period. The Millstone closed in 2011.
 

Reference    Builder 23 August 1929 page 324
Reference    Builder 3 January 1930 Page 37
Reference    Builder 28 March 1930 Page 649