Millhouse pub

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:35 pm

Was hearing last night that there's a strong rumour that it might be closing, will be disappointed personally as it's been part of my pre-match routine since the late 70's sadx

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8933

Heard this weekend is the closing down party.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7084

Peoples drinking habits have changed over the years, it’s a delivery to the house, bottle of wine and a few cans plus the pub industry has priced itself out of the market. Years ago the area round the Mill House were owner occupied houses now the majority are rented to people who can’t afford to go to a pub.
The other thing is there is no late public transport if you fancied nipping into the town for a beer,
I got a taxi from the railway station to sainsburys at Bishop Cuthbert £9.20.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8933

Snowy wrote:

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

Raj mite buy it and the land.
Turn it into a Carehome for former player misfits who served under his Messiahship.
bbolt

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18947

Snowy wrote:

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

if it had not been for pools the place would have gone years ago. not the type of place you,d take a new girlfriend in to impress her. as for houses, they seem to build em anywhere now and sick of saying the words , they are not building there are they.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

kevin pooles gloves wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

Raj mite buy it and the land.
Turn it into a Carehome for former player misfits who served under his Messiahship.
bbolt

He’d need more land than that. :laugh:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

accrington fan wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

if it had not been for pools the place would have gone years ago. not the type of place you,d take a new girlfriend in to impress her. as for houses, they seem to build em anywhere now and sick of saying the words , they are not building there are they.

We’ll, in town I can see Hart being connected up before long and just another suburb……I want to know who’s buying them all, they ain’t cheap and they say there’s no money

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7084

Snowy wrote:

accrington fan wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Trouble is you can’t rely on match day trade and when Mill House is demolished I’d imagine there’d be plans for the land, can’t see it being any good for housing, would you move there…?
Assuming of course there’s any truth in the rumour.

if it had not been for pools the place would have gone years ago. not the type of place you,d take a new girlfriend in to impress her. as for houses, they seem to build em anywhere now and sick of saying the words , they are not building there are they.

We’ll, in town I can see Hart being connected up before long and just another suburb……I want to know who’s buying them all, they ain’t cheap and they say there’s no money

With low interest rates of recent young couples could move to large house rather than take the steps I had to, £150k plus is not an uncommon mortgage nowadays. When I bought my first house I think 3 times your earnings plus a percentage of your partners earnings now it’s 5 times your earnings, let’s hope they are all tied into a long term deal. There was also the big government con of the Help to Buy Scheme, all that did was push house prices up even, it finishes in March. Of course the low interest rates pushed house prices up as builders knew people could borrow more.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:31 pm

If true another pub lost to the town being replaced with plastic wine barish establishments charging a fortune for a drink. There will be more as the cost of living crisis really bites ........its only early days yet.
Seen H&M (ex M&S) premises in Hpool town centre is closing and M&S in Boro is too. Boro has the Cleveland Centre and Hill Street and needs to slim down to one just like Stockton is doing.
Its going to be carnage.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18947

Bluestreak wrote:

If true another pub lost to the town being replaced with plastic wine barish establishments charging a fortune for a drink. There will be more as the cost of living crisis really bites ........its only early days yet.
Seen H&M (ex M&S) premises in Hpool town centre is closing and M&S in Boro is too. Boro has the Cleveland Centre and Hill Street and needs to slim down to one just like Stockton is doing.
Its going to be carnage.

times and tastes on both subjects have changed at a dramatic speed over the last few years. wine bars and small establishments selling craft beers are the thing with many now. shopping centres once popular when built has been replaced by on line shopping and many are only used to obtain the right sizes before going home to order via the internet. once changes took years and years to happen but the present stage came about in only about 20 years. things will never be the same again.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18947

Jamie1952 wrote:

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With low interest rates of recent young couples could move to large house rather than take the steps I had to, £150k plus is not an uncommon mortgage nowadays. When I bought my first house I think 3 times your earnings plus a percentage of your partners earnings now it’s 5 times your earnings, let’s hope they are all tied into a long term deal. There was also the big government con of the Help to Buy Scheme, all that did was push house prices up even, it finishes in March. Of course the low interest rates pushed house prices up as builders knew people could borrow more.

the biggest con was home ownership in the first place where you were thought of a second class citezan if you did not conform. you cannot take money with you when you die or bricks and morter. if only buying a house stopped there but just maintaining the thing can drain what money you have left and end up just living for the house.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 8933

I expect a lot more pubs n clubs to go the journey due to higher energy bills etc.
Like has been said the cost of living crisis has nowhere near peaked.
The uplift from March to April is unreal
Gas/leccy up from £2100 to £3000
Council tax up 5%
Water 8% plus the new extortion sewerage charges and 2 standing charges on water bills.
Food real figure about 50%
Broadband n Phone increases.
Then theres the new pension ages going up and being ramped forward announcement in May.
Average person in 50s £10000 worse off.
Have a nice day n vote Reform at the next election.
:angry-tappingfoot:

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 18947

with the amounts i spend i wish everything had only gone up the same amount as the inflation figure. agree about reform or even a proper left wing party for that matter. this middle of the road thing is not working and who is happy who supports either main party,s nowadays.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2023 2:03 pm

Craft beer is just ordinary fizzy beer with a new label put on it by some cleaver marketing twats like Brewdog. Dont be conned.
Real ale (cask ale) is truly different as it is not pasteurised or filtered.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7084

accrington fan wrote:

Jamie1952 wrote:

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With low interest rates of recent young couples could move to large house rather than take the steps I had to, £150k plus is not an uncommon mortgage nowadays. When I bought my first house I think 3 times your earnings plus a percentage of your partners earnings now it’s 5 times your earnings, let’s hope they are all tied into a long term deal. There was also the big government con of the Help to Buy Scheme, all that did was push house prices up even, it finishes in March. Of course the low interest rates pushed house prices up as builders knew people could borrow more.

the biggest con was home ownership in the first place where you were thought of a second class citezan if you did not conform. you cannot take money with you when you die or bricks and morter. if only buying a house stopped there but just maintaining the thing can drain what money you have left and end up just living for the house.

Watch this video about home ownership just as you describe it, The Housing Con U.K. housing crash is the end of the Ponzi Scheme.
https://youtu.be/qTJ_uxrR-Cw

Grayhoundend · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:13 pm **Posts:** 6689

If people want to jump on the rungless ladder, More fool them.

Grayhoundend · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:13 pm **Posts:** 6689

Just gedtting ready for the re-developement of the VIC...

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:06 pm

Grayhoundend wrote:

Just gedtting ready for the re-developement of the VIC...

The 40,000 all seater "Raj Stadium".

Grayhoundend · **Joined:** Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:13 pm **Posts:** 6689

Has a ring to it...

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

We could call it the …….’Arena’……. bbolt

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:36 am

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Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

The Mill House is dead, long live the Mill House…reports of it’s death were premature it would appear, to paraphrase a well known quotation.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7084

Must have a heart of a lion to take The Millhouse on in this day and age. Busy every other Saturday maybe the odd midweek night if there is a game and that all stops between May and August.
Best of luck to them though, they certainly have a challenge on their hands.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36416

The ‘Mill’ does not just rely on Pools home games.

Bluestreak · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:36 pm

Best of luck to them. I for one will pop in.

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